غَوْلٌ

Far extent of a desert, or waterless desert; (S, O, TA;) because it destroys him who passes along in it: (S, TA:) or of a land; because it casts away the travellers, or wayfarers, causes them to fall, or drop down, and removes them far away: and according to Lh, it is said of a land when one journeys in it without stopping. (TA.) One says, مَا أَبْعَدَ غَوْلَ هٰذِهِ الأَرْضِ How far is the extent of this land! and إِنَّهَا لَبَعِيدَةُ الغَوْلِ [Verily it is far in extent]. (ISh, TA.) And أَرْضٌ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ A land far extending, though in the view of the eye of little extent: (IKh, TA:) and غَيِّلٌ applied to land is said to have the same meaning. (TA in article غيل.) And أَغْوَالُ الأَرْضِ [in which اغوال is apparently plural of غَوْلٌ] signifies The extremities of the land. (TA.)

اِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ A tall woman. (TA.) See 1, last sentence but two. [And see also غَيِّلَةٌ, voce غَيِّلٌ, in article غيل.]

[ناقة غول النجاء is a phrase mentioned without any indication of the meaning in the TA: perhaps نَاقَةُ غَوْلِ النَّجَاءِ, and signifying A she-camel of an exceeding degree of swiftness.]

In the saying in the Qur'an, 37:46, لَا فِيهَا غَوْلٌ, [referring to the wine of Paradise,] it means The evil result of headache; because it is said in another place, [lvi. 19,] لَا يُصَدَّعُونَ عَنْهَا: (S, O, TA:) or it [there] means [simply] headache: or intoxication: (K, TA:) thus some explained it as used in that instance: (TA:) or, as explained by AO, it there means privation of the intellectual faculties. (S, O, TA.)