غَايءِطٌ
1.
A wide, depressed piece of ground or land, (ISh, S, O, Msb, K,) but not much depressed, and in some instances having acclivities [bordering it]; (ISh;) sometimes, as they assert, a league (فَرْسَخ) in extent, and having in it meadows; (AHn;) and
غَاطٌ and
غَوْطٌ signify the same; (O, K;) or the last is more depressed than the
غايءط: (IDrd, O:) and غايءط is also applied to a valley: (TA:) the plural [of pauc.] is أَغْوَاطٌ, (S, Msb, K,) or this is plural of غَوْطٌ, (IB,) and [of mult.] غِيطَانٌ, (S, Msb, K,) which is plural of both these sings., (IB,) and غُوطٌ (S, Msb, K) and غِيَاطٌ. (K.)
2.
Hence, (tropical:) A place in which one satisfies a want of nature; the custom being to do so in a depressed place, where one is concealed. (S, * Msb, * TA.) In the Qur'an, 4:46, or v. 9], according to an extraordinary reading, it is written
غَيْط, [a form now commonly used, and signifying a garden, but there meaning a privy place,] the original form of which may be غَيْوِط, and then غَيِّط, [and then غَيْط,] it being contracted; or, according to Abu-l- Hasan, the ى may be originally و, these two letters being in this instance interchangeable. (IJ.) You say, أَتَى الغَايءِطَ, (S, TA,) and ضَرَبَ
الغَايءِطَ, (TA,) (tropical:) He satisfied a want of nature; (S, TA;) voided excrement, or ordure. (TA.)