غول

1 غَالَهُ ذ , (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 الأَرْضُ بِفُلَانٍ ↓ تَغَوَّلَتِ 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.) ― -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.) ― -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.) ― -b4- And one says, مَا غَالَكَ عَنَّا i. e. What withheld, or debarred, or has withheld or debarred, thee from us? (O.) ― -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].)