طَوِيلٌ
1.
Elongated, or extended; [i. e. long; and tall, or high;] (S, O, Msb, K;) as also
طُوَالٌ; (S, O, K; but see طُوَّالٌ;) and
مُسْتَطِيلٌ: and
أَطْوَلُ is used in the sense of طَوِيلَةٌ, [being synonym sometimes with طَوِيلٌ and طَوِيلَةٌ,] in a verse of El-Farezdak cited voce عَزِيزٌ: (O, TA:) [it seems, from a comparison of explanations of سُرْحُوبٌ and سَلْهَبٌ &c. in the S and K, that طَوِيلٌ applied to a horse or the like generally signifies long-bodied:] طَوِيلٌ is the only epithet, known to IJ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ having the ف and ل sound and having و for its ع, except صَوِيبٌ and قَوِيمٌ; for عَوِيصٌ is [held by him to be only] used as a subst.: (M in article صوب:) the plural (of طَوِيلٌ and طُوَالٌ, TA) is طِوَالٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and طِيَالٌ; (S, O, K;) the latter anomalous, and said by IJ to occur only in one verse: (TA:) the feminine is طَوِيلَةٌ (Msb, K) and طُوَالَةٌ; (K, * TA;) and the plural of the former of these is طَوِيلَاتٌ. (Msb.)
2.
They said, إِنَّ اللَّيْلَ طَوِيلٌ
وَلَا يَطُلْ إِلَّا بِخَيْرٍ [Verily the night is long, and may it not be long save with good fortune]: mentioned by Lh, as expressing a prayer. (TA.) And قَصِيرَةٌ مِنْ طَوِيلَةٍ [A short thing from a tall thing]; meaning a date from a palm-tree: a prov., alluding to the abridging of speech, or language. (IAar, Meyd, K.) See also 4.
3.
الطَّوِيلُ is also the name of A certain kind of metre of verse; (S, O, K;) [namely, the first;] consisting of
فَعُولُنْ مَفَاعِيلُنْ
eight [a mistake for four] times: (O, TA:) so called because it is the longest of all the metres of verse; originally comprising forty-eight letters: (TA:) a postclassical term. (S, O, K.)