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غُلّ
fetter /ˈɣʊlː/
nounB2#3643 most common
Also: shackle, iron collar, chain (restraining hands to neck)
Example sentences
هذا غُلٌّ من حديد.
This is an iron fetter.
وضعوا الغُلَّ في يدَي السجين.
They put the fetter on the prisoner's hands.
كان الغُلُّ يُثقِل معصمه طوال الطريق.
The fetter weighed down his wrist the whole way.
كانت الأغلالُ مربوطةً من يديه إلى عنقه.
The fetters were bound from his hands to his neck.
قال إنه تحرّر أخيرًا من غُلِّ العادة القديمة التي كبّلته سنوات.
He said he had finally freed himself from the fetter of the old habit that had bound him for years.
في الآية الكريمة: «إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ أَغْلَالًا فَهِيَ إِلَى الْأَذْقَانِ»، يصف القرآن غُلَّ الكفر الذي يقيّد القلوب عن الحق.
In the Quranic verse, "We have put fetters on their necks reaching to their chins," the Quran describes the fetter of disbelief that binds hearts away from truth.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | غُلٌّ | أَغْلَالٌ |
| Genitive | غُلٍّ | أَغْلَالٍ |
| Accusative | غُلًّا | أَغْلَالًا |
| Vocative | يا غُلُّ | يا أَغْلَالُ |
Word family
غَلَّto shackle someone; also, to embezzle or act treacherously
مَغْلُولshackled, one whose hands are chained
أَغْلَالfetters, shackles (plural of غُلّ)
غِلّrancor, malice, hidden grudge
غُلَّةburning thirst
Etymology
غُلّ comes from the Semitic root غ-ل-ل, which carries the core sense of binding, enclosing, or restraining. From this root Arabic also derives غَلَّ, meaning to shackle someone or to act treacherously by hiding something owed, and غِلّ, the pent-up rancor that stays locked inside a person. غُلّ itself narrowed to the concrete object: an iron collar or chain that binds the hands to the neck. The word appears often in the Quran to describe the fetters of captives and of the damned.
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