From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root غسل. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.
غَسَلَهُ , (S, MA, O, Msb, K,) aor. غَسِلَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. غَسْلٌ , (S, MA, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) and غُسْلٌ is the subst, (S, Msb,) or a subst. (Mgh, K, TA) from الاِغْتِسَالُ , (Mgh, TA,) or, as some say. the latter is the inf. n. and the former is the subst., (MF, TA,) He washed it; with water ( بِالمَا=ءِ ): (MA:) غَسْلُ الشّىْءِ signifies the removing of dirt, or filth, and the like thereof, from the thing, by making water to run over it. (Mgh.) You say, غَسَلَ الجِلْدَ كُلَّهُ [He washed the skin, all of it], and المَيِّتَ [the dead body]: and ↓ غسّل has the like, but an intensive, meaning. (Msb.) See also 10. ― -b2- وَا@غْسِلْنِى بِمَا=ءِ الثَّلْجِ وَالبَرَدِ [lit. And wash Thou me with the water of snow and of hail], in a trad. relating to [forms of] prayer, means (assumed tropical:) and cleanse Thou me from sins. (TA.) And one says, غَسَلَ ا@للّٰهُ حَوْبَتَكَ i. e. (assumed tropical:) May God cleanse thee from thy sin. (TA.) ― -b3- مَا غَسَلُوا رُوءُوسَهُمْ مِنْ يَوْمِ الجَمَلِ [lit. They did not wash their heads &c., as one does in cleansing himself from impurity,] means مَا فَرَغُوا and مَا تَخَلَّصُوا [i. e., app., (assumed tropical:) they did not become free from the consequences of the Day of the Camel (the famous engagement between the forces of 'Alee and those of Áïsheh)]. (TA.) ― -b4- And one says of a horse, غُسِلَ , like عُنِىَ , meaning He sweated; [or became suffused with sweat;] (Sh, O, K;) as also ↓ اِغْتَسَلَ (K.) [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited in art. عدو , conj. 3.] ― -b5- غَسَلَ المَرْأَةَ signifies (tropical:) He compressed the woman ( جَامَعَهَا ); (Az, Mgh, O, TA;) like عَسَلَهَا , with ع ; (Az, Mgh, TA;) much or little; (TA;) and ↓ غَسَّلَهَا signifies the same: (Mgh, O, TA:) or both signify he did so much. (K.) It is said in a trad., (Mgh, O, TA,) respecting [preparation for the prayers of] Friday, (Mgh,) مَنْ غَسَلَ وَا@غْتَسَلَ , as some relate it, or, as others relate it, واغتسل ↓ من غَسَّلَ ; the latter of which is said to mean Whose compresses his wife [before his going to the mosque]; (Mgh, O;) and El-Kutabee says that most hold this to be the meaning; i. e., lest he should see in his way anything that might divert his heart [from devotion]; (Mgh;) [and then washes himself;] and Az held غَسَلَ , without teshdeed to be correct (Mgh, O) in this sense: (Mgh:) or the meaning accord. to the reading of غسّل is, whose performs the [ablution termed] وُضُوءْ fully, washing every member [of those that are to be washed] three times, (Mgh, O,) and then washes himself for the [prayers of] Friday; (Mgh;) and accord. to IAmb, it means whose washes himself after الجِمَاع and then washes himself for the [prayers of] Friday; (O:) accord. to the K, ↓ التَّغْسِيلَ signifies the exceeding the ordinary bounds in washing the members: (TA:) he who explains as meaning the causing a woman to become under the obligation of performing a total ablution, بِأَنْ وَطِيءَهَا , says what is improbable, and departs from the authorities respecting it. (Mgh.) ― -b6- One say, also, غَسَلَ الفَحْلُ النَّاقَةَ , meaning (tropical:) The stallion covered the she-camel much. (K, TA.) [See also 4.] ― -b7- And غَسَلَ , aor. غَسِلَ . (K, TA,) inf. n. غَسْلٌ , (TA,) (tropical:) He beat, and caused to suffer pain, (K, TA,) بِالسَّوْطِ [with the whip]. (TA.)
غَسَّلَ see the preceding paragraph, in four places
اغسل [said of a stallion, and intrans.,] (assumed tropical:) He covered much, or often; syn. أَكْثَرَ الضِّرَابَ (Fr, O, K.) [See also 1, last explanation but one.]
انغسل said of a thing is quasi-pass. of غَسَلَهُ [i. e. it signifies It became washed, or washed off]. (O, TA.) [See غِسْلِينٌ .]
اغتسل (S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) He washed [himself, i. e.] his whole person, (Mgh,) بِالمَا=ءِ [with water]. (S, Mgh, O, K.) And اغتسل لِلْجُمْعَةِ [He washed himself for the prayers of Friday]. (IAmb, O.) ― -b2- And اغتسل بِالطِّيبِ He daubed, or smeared, himself, or did so copiously, so as to cause a dripping, ( تَضَمَّخَ , Lh, TA,) or he sprinkled himself, ( تَنَضَّخَ , K,) with perfume. (Lh, K.) ― -b3- اغتسل said of a horse: see 1.
اـِسْتَغْسَلَ It is said in a trad., العَيْنُ حَقٌّ فَاـِذَا ا@سْتُغْسِلْتُمْ ↓ فَا@غْسِلُوا [The evil eye is a truth; so when ye are asked to wash, wash ye]: i. e., when he who was smitten by the eye of any one demanded [the performance of what is here meant], he brought to the smiter therewith a bowl in which was water, and he [the latter] would put his hand into it, and rinse his mouth [with some of it], then spit it out into the bowl; then he would wash his face in it; then he would put in his left hand, and pour upon his right hand; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left hand; [then he would put in his left hand (a clause omitted in my original),] and pour upon his right elbow; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left elbow; then he would put in his left hand, and pour upon his right foot; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left foot; then he would put in his left hand, and pour upon his right knee; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left knee; then he would wash what is termed دَاخِلَةُ الاـِزَارِ [expl. in art. دخل ]: and he would not put the bowl upon the ground: then he would pour that used water upon the head of the person smitten with the eye, from behind him, with one pouring; and he would be cured, with the permission of God. (TA.)
غَسْلٌ inf. n. of غَسَلَهُ : (S, MA, Mgh, O, Msb, K:) or, accord. to some, this and ↓ غُسْلٌ have one and the same meaning; and the saying that this is the case is ascribed to Sb: (Msb:) or, as some say, the latter is the inf. n., and the former is the subst. (MF, TA.) See also the next paragraph.
غُسْلٌ the subst. from غَسَلَهُ [i. e. a subst. signifying A washing]: (S, Msb:) or a subst. (IKoot, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) from الاغتسال , (IKoot, Mgh, Msb, TA,) and [as such] signifying a complete washing [of oneself, i. e.] of the whole person: (IKoot, T, Mgh, Msb, TA:) it is in consequence of جَنَابَة [q. v.], and of childbirth, and for [the prayers of] Friday, and is the washing of the dead; but in other cases, the word ↓ غَسْلٌ , with fet-h, is used: (Ham p. 30:) and one says ↓ غُسُلٌ as well as غُسْلٌ , (S, O,) the former being a dial. var. of the latter: (TA:) El-Kumeyt says, describing a wild ass, تَحْتَ الأَلَا=ءَةِ فِى نَوْعَيْنِ مِنْ غُسُلٍ بَاتَا عَلَيْهِ بِتَسْجَالٍ وَتَقْطَارِ [Beneath the (tree called) أَلَا=ءَة , in two sorts of washing that continued during the night upon him with much pouring and much dropping]; meaning that the water that was upon the tree poured upon him at one time; and at one time, that of the rain: (S, TA:) the pl. of غُسْلٌ is أَغْسَالٌ . (Msb.) See also غَسْلٌ . ― -b2- And see غَسُولٌ .
غِسْلٌ A preparation for washing the head, consisting of خِطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallows] and other things (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) of a similar kind, (Mgh, Msb, K,) [with water,] as [leaves of] the [species of lote-tree called] سِدْر , (Msb,) and طِين , (TA,) or طِينَةُ الرَّأْسِ , [meaning fullers' earth, which is often used in the bath and elsewhere instead of soap,] (Mgh,) and أُشْنَان [or potash]: (TA:) [and app. any wash for the head:] and ↓ غِسْلَةٌ signifies the same: (Mgh, K:) and also (this latter) leaves of the myrtle: and perfume; syn. طِيبٌ : and what a woman puts into her hair on the occasion of combing and dressing it: (K:) غِسْلَةٌ مُطَرَّاةٌ being myrtle [-leaves] rendered fragrant with aromatic perfumes, used in combing and dressing one's hair: one should not say غَسْلَةٌ . (S, O.) IAar cites the following verse (S, O) of 'Abd-Er-Rahmán Ibn-Dárah El-Ghatafánee, (O,) فَيَا لَيْلَ اـِنَّ الغِسْلَ مَا دُمْتِ أَيِّمًا عَلَىَّ حَرَامٌ لَا يَمَسُّنِىَ الغِسْلُ [And, O Leylà, ( لَيْلَ being a contraction of لَيْلَى , but in the O it is يا جُمْلُ O Juml,) verily the wash for the head, as long as thou remainest husbandless, shall be unlawful to me: the wash for the head shall not touch me]: i. e. I will not need the wash for the head by my جِمَاع of other than her: [he says thus] in eager desire of taking her in marriage. (S, O.) ― -b2- See also غَسُولٌ . -A2- And see also غُسَلَةٌ .
رَجُلٌ غَسِلٌ (assumed tropical:) A man who compresses his wife much. (TA.) [See also غُسَلَةٌ .]
غُسَلٌ : see غُسَلَةٌ .
غُسُلٌ : see غُسْلٌ .
غَسْلَةٌ [A single act of washing: pl. غَسَلَاتٌ ]. ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, بَنَوْا هٰذِهِ المَدِينَةَ بِغَسَلَاتِ أَيْدِيهِمْ (assumed tropical:) [They built this city] by means of their earnings. (TA.)
غِسْلَةٌ : see غَسُولٌ : ― -b2- and see also غِسْلٌ . ― -b3- عَلَى وَجْهِهِ غِسْلَةٌ means His face is beautiful, with no fat, or fatness, upon it. (TA.) ― -b4- أَبُو غِسْلَةَ is an appellation of The wolf: (O, K:) and so ابو عِسْلَةَ , with ع . (TA.)
غُسَلَةٌ (S, Mgh, O, K) and ↓ غُسَلٌ and ↓ غَسِيلٌ and ↓ غِسِّيلٌ and ↓ مِغْسَلٌ (O, K) and ↓ غِسْلٌ , (K,) all, except the last, mentioned by Fr, (O, TA,) applied to a stallion [camel], (tropical:) That covers much: (Fr, Mgh, * O, K, TA:) or that does so much without impregnating: (Ks, S, K, TA:) and in like manner applied to a man. (K.) [See also غَسِلٌ .]
الغِسْلِينُ : see الغُسَالَةُ . ― -b2- الغِسْلِينُ (in the Kur [lxix. 36], TA) What is washed off of the flesh and the blood of the inmates of the fire [of Hell]; (Akh, S, O;) [for] what comes forth from any wound, or sore, when it is washed, is termed غِسْلِين : (TA:) what is washed off from the bodies of the unbelievers, in the fire: (Msb:) or what flows from the skins of the inmates of the fire, (K, TA,) such as thick purulent matter &c.; thus expl. by Fr and Seer; (TA;) as though it were washed from them: (Sb, TA:) accord. to Mujáhid, a certain food of the inmates of the fire; and El-Kelbee says that it is what the fire has cooked, of their flesh, and has fallen off, and is eaten by them: (TA:) and, (K,) accord. to Ed-Dahhák, (O, TA,) a species of trees in the fire; (O, K, TA;) and so he says of الضَّرِيعُ : (O, TA:) and, (K,) accord. to Lth, (O, TA,) what is intensely hot: (O, K, TA:) the ى and ن are augmentative. (S, O, Msb.)
غَسُولٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ غَسُّولٌ (O, K) and ↓ غُسْلٌ (Mgh, K) and ↓ غِسْلٌ and ↓ غِسْلَةٌ (IAth, K) Water with which one washes himself; (S, Mgh, O, K;) as also ↓ مُغْتَسَلٌ , occurring [in this sense] in the Kur xxxviii. 41: (S:) or the words preceding this signify water little in quantity, with which one washes himself: (TA:) and خِطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallows], (K, TA,) and أُشْنَان [or potash (see also غَاسُولٌ )], and the like thereof, and certain of the [plants termed] حَمْض : (TA:) or غَسُولٌ signifies a thing [or substance] with which the hand is washed, such as أُشْنَان &c.: (Har p. 86:) or, accord. to the M, anything with which one washes a head or a garment and the like. (TA.) [See also the pl. غَسُولَاتٌ voce دَلُوكٌ .]
غَسِيلٌ i. q. ↓ مَغْسُولٌ [i. e. Washed]; (S, O, Msb, K;) applied to a thing, (S, O,) and to a dead body; (Lh, Msb, TA;) and the former is also applied as an epithet to a fem. n., as is also غَسِيلَةٌ ; (S, O, K;) or this last is used after the manner of substs., like نَطِيحَةٌ and ذَبِيحَةٌ ; not as is said in the S [and O] after the manner of epithets: (IB, TA:) the pl. of غَسِيلٌ is غَسْلِى and غُسَلَا=ءُ ; (Lh, K, TA;) and the pl. of غَسِيلَةٌ [and app. of غَسِيلٌ used a fem. epithet] is غَسَالَى or غُسَالَى . (K accord. to different copies.) Han- dhaleh Ibn-er-Ráhib was called غَسِيلُ المَلَايءِكَةِ [The washed of the angels], because he died a martyr on the day of Ohod, and the angels washed him, (S, O, Msb,) accord. to the Prophet, who said that he saw them washing him. (O.) ― -b2- See also غُسَلَةٌ . ― -b3- [It is now used as meaning Clothes, or the like, put together to be washed.]
الغُسَالَةُ , (S, O, Msb,) or غُسَالَةُ الشَّىْءِ , (K,) That with which one has washed the thing: (S, O, Msb:) or the water with which the thing is washed. (K.) [Hence the latter often signifies The infusion of the thing; i. e. the liquid in which the thing has been steeped, and which is impregnated with its virtues.] ― -b2- Also, the latter, What is extracted from the thing by washing. (K.) ― -b3- And الغُسَالَةُ also signifies What is washed from the garment and the like; and so ↓ الغِسْلِينُ . (K.)
غَسْوِيلٌ A certain plant, growing in places that exude water and produce salt: (O, K:) said by IDrd to be a species of trees. (O.)
غَسَّالٌ [A washer of clothes, and also of the dead: fem. with ة ]. (TA.) [See also غَاسِلٌ .]
غَسُّولٌ : see غَسُولٌ .
غِسِّيلٌ : see غُسَلَةٌ .
غَاسِلٌ A washer of the dead. (Msb.) [See also غَسَّالٌ .] -A2- And A species of trees. (TA.)
غَاسُولٌ i. q. أُشْنَانٌ [i. e. Potash: and the plant from which it is prepared; kali, or glasswort; or mesembryanthemum nodiflorum (Forskål, Flora Ægypt. Arab. pp. lxvii. and 98), a species of glasswort]. (TA.) [See also غَسُولٌ .]
مَغْسِلٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and مَغْسَلٌ [which is anomalous] (S, O, K) and ↓ مُغْتَسَلٌ (K) A place in which the dead are washed: (S, O, Msb, K) pl. of the first (S, Msb) and second (S) مَغَاسِلُ : (S, Msb:) and one says also مَغْسَِلُ المَوْتَى . (S, O, Msb. *)
مِغْسَلٌ A thing [i. e. vessel] in which (so in the M, in the K with which,) a thing is washed. (TA.) -A2- See also غُسَلَةٌ .
مَغْسُولٌ : see غَسِيلٌ . ― -b2- Hence one says, كَلَامُهُ مَغْسُولٌ , meaning (assumed tropical:) His speech, or language, is devoid of nice, or subtile, expressions or allusions; as though it were washed from such; or deserving to be washed and obliterated: or it may mean (tropical:) trimmed, or pruned. (TA.)
مُغْتَسَلٌ A place in which one washes himself: (O, Msb, TA: *) dim. ↓ مُغَيْسِلٌ : and pl. مَغَاسِيلُ [which, if correct, is anomalous]. (TA.) ― -b2- And it is said to signify also what is called in Pers. حوض مَسِين [or حَوْض مِسِين app. meaning A tank, or the like, of copper]. (Mgh.) ― -b3- See also مَغْسِلٌ . ― -b4- And see غَسُولٌ .
مُغَيْسِلٌ : see the next preceding paragraph.
The roots that most often share a verse with غ س ل. Window: the verse. Measure: the number of distinct verses in which both roots occur (of the 4 this root appears in). Ubiquitous roots are excluded so genuinely connected concepts surface — see the method.
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يَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلَّذِينَءَامَنُوا۟لَاتَقْرَبُوا۟ٱلصَّلَوٰةَوَأَنتُمْسُكَٰرَىٰحَتَّىٰتَعْلَمُوا۟مَاتَقُولُونَوَلَاجُنُبًاإِلَّاعَابِرِىسَبِيلٍحَتَّىٰتَغْتَسِلُوا۟وَإِنكُنتُممَّرْضَىٰٓأَوْعَلَىٰسَفَرٍأَوْجَآءَأَحَدٌمِّنكُممِّنَٱلْغَآئِطِأَوْلَٰمَسْتُمُٱلنِّسَآءَفَلَمْتَجِدُوا۟مَآءًفَتَيَمَّمُوا۟صَعِيدًاطَيِّبًافَٱمْسَحُوا۟بِوُجُوهِكُمْوَأَيْدِيكُمْإِنَّٱللَّهَكَانَعَفُوًّاغَفُورًا
Reference 4:43يَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلَّذِينَءَامَنُوٓا۟إِذَاقُمْتُمْإِلَىٱلصَّلَوٰةِفَٱغْسِلُوا۟وُجُوهَكُمْوَأَيْدِيَكُمْإِلَىٱلْمَرَافِقِوَٱمْسَحُوا۟بِرُءُوسِكُمْوَأَرْجُلَكُمْإِلَىٱلْكَعْبَيْنِوَإِنكُنتُمْجُنُبًافَٱطَّهَّرُوا۟وَإِنكُنتُممَّرْضَىٰٓأَوْعَلَىٰسَفَرٍأَوْجَآءَأَحَدٌمِّنكُممِّنَٱلْغَآئِطِأَوْلَٰمَسْتُمُٱلنِّسَآءَفَلَمْتَجِدُوا۟مَآءًفَتَيَمَّمُوا۟صَعِيدًاطَيِّبًافَٱمْسَحُوا۟بِوُجُوهِكُمْوَأَيْدِيكُممِّنْهُمَايُرِيدُٱللَّهُلِيَجْعَلَعَلَيْكُممِّنْحَرَجٍوَلَٰكِنيُرِيدُلِيُطَهِّرَكُمْوَلِيُتِمَّنِعْمَتَهُۥعَلَيْكُمْلَعَلَّكُمْتَشْكُرُونَ
Reference 5:6ٱرْكُضْبِرِجْلِكَهَٰذَامُغْتَسَلٌۢبَارِدٌوَشَرَابٌ
Reference 38:42وَلَاطَعَامٌإِلَّامِنْغِسْلِينٍ
Reference 69:36No published investigation cites this root yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.