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غول

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَغْوَلُ ذ [ More, and most, destructive ]. One says, أَيَّةُ غُولٍ أَغْوَلُ مِنَ الغَضَبِ [ What destroyer is more destructive than anger? ]. (S, O: immediately following the explanation of the saying, الغَضَبُ غُولُ الحِلْمِ.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps,] عَيْشٌ أَغْوَلُ A soft, or plentiful and easy, life; (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K;) as also ↓ غُوَّلٌ. (K.)

Derived headwords

أَغْوَلُ
  1. 1.
أَيَّةُ غُولٍ أَغْوَلُ مِنَ الغَضَبِ
غُولُ الحِلْمِ
عَيْشٌ أَغْوَلُ