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غَالَهُ , (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) aor. يَغُولُهُ, (Msb,
TA,) inf. n. غَوْلٌ, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) He, or it,
[accord. to the TA said of a thing,] destroyed
him; (Lth, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ اغتالهُ:
(K:) and (K) it (a thing, S, O) took him, seized
him, or took him away, unexpectedly, at unawares,
or from an unknown quarter; (S, O, K;) and so
↓ اغتالهُ: (S: [see also an ex. of this latter voce
خَرُوجٌ:]) and accord. to IAar, غال الشَّىْءُ زَيْدًا
signifies The thing took away Zeyd. (TA.) One
says, ↓ غَالَتْهُ غُولٌ A [cause of] destruction destroyed him: (K, TA:) or [destroyed him so that
it was not known whither he had gone away; for]
it is said of one who has fallen into destruction
(S, TA) and it is not known whither he has gone
away: (TA:) and it also signifies Death or the
decree of death [destroyed him, or took him away].
(TA.) One says also when persons have perished
in a land, غَالَتْهُمْ تِلْكَ الأَرْضُ [That land caused
them, or has caused them, to perish in it]: and
تَغَوَّلَتِ ↓ الأَرْضُ بِفُلَانٍ means The land caused such
a one to perish; and to pursue a course that led
him astray. (TA.) And one says of a land
(أَرْض), تَغُولُ السَّابِلَةَ, meaning It casts away the
travellers, or wayfarers; causes them to fall, or
drop down; and removes them far away. (TA.)
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2-b2- غَالَتِ الخَمْرُ فُلَانًا means (assumed tropical:) The wine that he
had drunk deprived such a one of his reason: or,
of the soundness of his body: (AHeyth, TA:) [or
corrupted, or vitiated, him; for] غَالَهُ, aor. يَغُولُهُ,
signifies أَفْسَدَهُ; (Ksh and Bd in xxxvii. 46;) as
well as أَهْلَكَهُ: (Ksh, ibid:) and a poet, cited by
AO, says,
وَمَا زَالَتِ الكَأْسُ تَغْتَالُنَا
(assumed tropical:) [And the cup of wine caused not to deprive us of
our reason]. (S, O.) ―
2-b3- تَغُولُ الثِّيَابَ فَتَقْصُرُ عَنْهَا
is said of a tall woman [app. as meaning She
exceeds the measure of the clothes, so that they are
too short for her]: such a woman is said to be
↓ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ. (TA.) ―
2-b4- And one says, مَا غَالَكَ عَنَّا
i. e. What withheld, or debarred, or has withheld
or debarred, thee from us? (O.) ―
2-b5- And غُلْتُهُ,
inf. n. غِيَالَةٌ and غِيَالٌ and غُؤُولٌ, signifies I stole
it. (O and TA in art. غيل [though belonging to
art. غول].)