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غول

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

3 مُغَاوَلَةٌ ذ is syn. with مُبَادَرَةٌ [The hastening, making haste, or striving to be first or beforehand, in doing or attaining or obtaining a thing], (S, O, K, TA,) [or] in journeying, &c. (TA.) Jereer says, (S, O,) or El-Akhtal, (so in the TA,) mentioning a man upon whom horsemen had made a sudden attack, (S, TA,) عَايَنْتُ مُشْعِلَةَ الرِعَالِ كَأَنَّهَا طَيْرٌ تُغَاوِلُ فِى شَمَامٍ وُكُورَا [ I saw those that were spreading themselves of the small parties of horsemen, as though they were birds hastening to nests in (the mountain of) Shemám ]. (S, O, TA.) And it is related in a trad. of 'Ammár, that he was brief in prayer, and said, كُنْتُ أُغَاوِلُ حَاجَةً لِى [ I was hastening to accomplish a want that I had ]. (TA.) And in a trad. of Keys Ibn-'Ásim, [it is related that he said,] كُنْتُ أُغَاوِلُهُمْ فِى الجَاهِلِيَّةِ i. e. I used to strive to be beforehand with them (أُبَادِرُهُمْ) in making a sudden attack or incursion, and in doing mischief, [ in the Time of Ignorance: ] or, as some relate it, it is with ر [i. e. كُنْتُ أُغَاوِرُهُمْ I used to make sudden attacks or incursions upon them ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

مُغَاوَلَةٌverb
  1. 1.
عَايَنْتُ مُشْعِلَةَ الرِعَالِ كَأَنَّهَا
طَيْرٌ تُغَاوِلُ فِى شَمَامٍ وُكُورَا
كُنْتُ أُغَاوِلُ حَاجَةً لِى
كُنْتُ أُغَاوِلُهُمْ فِى الجَاهِلِيَّةِ
كُنْتُ أُغَاوِرُهُمْ