غَوْغَاء

[i. e. غَوْغَاءٌ and غَوْغَاءُ, as will be shown by what follows; mentioned in this article in the Msb and K; and in the S, and again in the K and TA, in article غو;] masculine and feminine, [being] perfectly and imperfectly decl., (S and TA in article غو,) in the former case like قَمْقَامٌ, the ء being substituted for ,, and in the latter case like عَوْرَاءُ, (S,) Locusts after the growth of their wings, (AO, T, Msb, K,) i. e. (AO, T, Msb) after the state in which they are called دَبًا or دَبًى; (AO, T, S, Msb;) before which earlier state they are called سِرْوَة [or rather سَِرْء]: (A'Obeyd, T, Msb: [see also جَرَادٌ:] or locusts when they become light, or active, so as to fly; thus according to AO, and IAth says the like thereof: (TA:) or locusts when they have wings, and almost fly, before they raise themselves and fly; thus says As: (S:) or locusts, when they have become divested of the [changing] colours, and are becoming in a state of transition to redness. (As, K, TA.)

And A sort of insects resembling بَعُوض [or gnats], that do not bite, (AO, S, Msb, K,) nor hurt, (AO, S, Msb,) by reason of their weakness. (AO, S, K.)

And, (S, Msb, K,) according to As, (S,) or AO, (Msb,) as being likened to the locusts thus termed, (S, Msb,) applied to men, (S, Msb, K,) meaning (tropical:) A mixed multitude of men; as also ↓ غَاغَةٌ: (S and K in article غو:) or the سَفِلَة [i. e. low, base, vile, ignoble, mean, or sordid; or lowest or lower, basest or baser, &c.;] of men; and such as haste to do evil: and it may be from the signification here following, because of the muchness of their clamour, or confused noise, and vociferation. (TA.)

[Like غَوْغَا in Pers., and probably from this latter, if the converse be not the case,] it signifies also Clamour, and a confusion of cries or shouts or noises. (TA.)