غول

From the root غ و ل (ḡ-w-l), related to غَالَ (ḡāla, “to seize”).

Compare Sumerian [script needed] (gula, “great”).

غُول • (ḡūl) f (plural أَغْوَال (ʔaḡwāl) or غِيلَان (ḡīlān))

1. ape, orangutan (obsolete)
2. ghoul, desert demon
3. demon, jinn, goblin, monster
4. ogre, cannibal, troll, oni, giant
5. calamity, disaster

• Maltese: għul
• → English: ghoul, Algol
• French: goule

• جِنّ (jinn, “jinn”)
• جَانّ (jānn, “jann”)
• نَسْنَاس (nasnās, “nasnas”)
• سعلاة (“sila”)
• قطرب (“qutrub”)

Verbal noun of غَالَ (ḡāla, “to snatch, to grab, to take away”).

غَوْل • (ḡawl) m

1. taking away, snatching, seizing, grabbing

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl, “ghoul, demon”).

غول • (gul) (plural غلان or اغوال)

1. ghoul, a demon said to feed on corpses
2. fabulous serpent of enormous size, dragon

   Synonyms: (dragon) اژدها (ejdeha), تنین (tinin), ثعبان (suʿban)

3. calamity, disaster, catastrophe, adversity
4. (figuratively) evil-minded person or thing

• Turkish: gul

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gul5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1780
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 878
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Draco”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3437
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1354

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl).

غول • (ğul) (plural غول‌ها (ğul-hâ))

1. ghoul
2. giant
3. monster

غول • (ğôl) (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of آغل (âğol) penfold, caverns for cattle

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

غول • (ğôl) (obsolete)

1. twin children

غول • (ğôl) (plural غول‌ها (ğôl-hâ))

1. Obsolete form of گوش (gôš, “ear”)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “غول”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “اسپغول”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[5] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 626b