دَغَلٌ

Badness, corruptness, or unsoundness; or a bad, a corrupt, or an unsound, state or quality; (S, and Mgh in article نغل;) [in an affair, &c.;] like دَخَلٌ; (S;) and a thing that induces doubt, or suspicion, or evil opinion; [in an affair; or] in a man: (Mgh ubi suprà:) or a cause of badness, corruption, or unsoundness, in an affair. (JK, T, K, TA.) Hence the saying of El-Hasan, اِتَّخُوا كِتَابَ اللّٰهِ دَغَلًا [They made the Book of God to be a cause of corruption: or perhaps they made the Book of God corrupt; i. e. they corrupted it]. (TA.)

Confusedness, or entanglement, and abundance, of plants or herbage; (M, K;) most commonly known in plants of the kind termed حَمْض, when amid غريل [i. e. غِرْيَل, apparently here meaning silt, or alluvial deposit, left upon the ground by a torrent]. (M, TA.)

Tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees; (S, K;) as also دَخَلٌ. (TA.)

Any place in which a wile, machination, or plot, is practised; (JK;) a place in which one fears being taken unawares: (K:) and ↓ دَغِيلَةٌ signifies the same as دَغَلٌ [apparently meaning such a place as is here described]: (JK, K:) the plural of the former is أَدْغَالٌ [a plural of pauc.] and دِغَالٌ. (K.)

Accord. to En-Nadr, An elevated [tract of ground such as is termed] قُفّ: and i. q. أَكَمَةٌ [a hill, or mound, &c.]: and a valley: and a level, or smooth, wide, depressed tract of land: and أَدْغَالٌ signifies mountains: and أَدْغَالُ الأَرْضِ, [tracts of] land from which water has sunk into the earth, or receded: and low, or depressed, tracts of land: and level, or smooth, tracts thereof. (TA.)