غيطلة doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• غَيْطَلَةٌ

  غَيْطَلَةٌ ذ : see غَيْطَلٌ. -b2- Also A company, or collection, (Th, K, TA,) of men: (K, TA:) or the assembling of men, and their becoming in a dense, or confused, state. (IAar, TA.) -b3- And Darkness; as also ; (K;) or…

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