غ ل س

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the dimness of pre-dawn light and the act of traveling or arriving during this time. It extends to metaphorical meanings of entering into darkness or falling into a dire predicament.

Derived headwords

الغَلَسnoun

1.
pre-dawn darknessboth
The darkness of the late night mixed with the light of dawn.
2.
early morningclassical
The first light of dawn spreading across the horizon.

أَغْلَسُواverb

1.
entered darknessclassical
They entered into the darkness.
2.
traveled at dawnboth
They traveled during the pre-dawn darkness.
3.
arrived at water at dawnclassical
They arrived at the water source at the first light of dawn.

كنا نغلس من جمع إلى منى — We used to travel at dawn from Muzdalifah to Mina.

تَغْلِيسًاnoun

1.
traveling at dawnboth
The act of traveling during the pre-dawn darkness.

غَلَّسُواverb

1.
traveled at dawnboth
They traveled during the pre-dawn darkness.
2.
arrived at water at dawnclassical
They arrived at the water source at the first light of dawn.

كنا نغلس من جمع إلى منى — We used to travel at dawn from Muzdalifah to Mina.

غَلِيسname

1.
name of a wild assclassical
A proper name for one of the wild asses.

تَغْلِسname

1.
dire predicamentclassical
A severe and unexpected misfortune or a grave situation.
2.
falsehoodclassical
A state of untruth or deceit.

وقع فلان في وادي تغلس — So-and-so fell into a dire predicament.

المُغَلِّسname

1.
name of a narratorclassical
A proper name of a Kufan hadith narrator.

جبارة بن المغلس — Jabarah ibn al-Mughallis

حَرَّة غَلَّاسname

1.
name of a lava fieldclassical
One of the famous lava fields belonging to the Arabs.

Parallel reading

الغلس: ظلمة آخر الليل إذا اختلطت بضوء الصباح

Al-ghalas: the darkness of the late night when it is mixed with the light of dawn.

كان يصلي الصبح بغلس

He used to pray the morning prayer in the pre-dawn darkness.

الغلس: أول الصبح حتى ينتشر في الآفاق

Al-ghalas: the first of the dawn until it spreads across the horizons.

وهما سواد مختلط ببياض وحمرة مثل الصبح سواء

And they are a blackness mixed with whiteness and redness, just like the dawn.

كذبتك عينك أم رأيت بواسط ... غلس الظلام من الرباب خيالا

Did your eye lie to you, or did you see in Wasit... a phantom of the dimming darkness of the clouds?

وأغلسوا: دخلوا فيها، أي الظلمة

And aghlasu: they entered into it, meaning the darkness.

وغلسوا تغليسا ساروا بغلس

And ghallasu taghlisan: they traveled at dawn.

كنا نغلس من جمع إلى منى

We used to travel at dawn from Muzdalifah to Mina.

وغلسوا: وردوا الماء بغلس

And ghallasu: they arrived at the water at dawn.

وذلك أول ما ينفجر الصبح

And that is when the dawn first breaks.

يقولون: وقع فلان في وادي تغلس

They say: So-and-so fell into the valley of Taghlas.

أي في داهية منكرة

Meaning, into a terrible predicament.

وقع فلان في أغوية، وفي وامئة وفي تغلس، غير مصروف، وهو جميعا الداهية والباطل

So-and-so fell into Aghwiyah, and Wami'ah, and Taghlas, undeclined, all of which mean a calamity and falsehood.

جبارة بن المغلس: كوفي محدث

Jabarah ibn al-Mughallis: a Kufan hadith narrator.

وقعوا في تغلس: الباطل

They fell into Taghlas: falsehood.

حرة غلاس: إحدى حرار العرب

Hurrah Ghallas: one of the lava fields of the Arabs.