▪ t-stem of obsol. D-stem †qawwala ‘to attribute false reports to s.o., forge out false reports (ʕalà on)’ (Hava1899), from ↗qāla ‘to say’, or denom. from ↗qawl ‘word, saying, utterance’.
►taqawwala al-ʔaqāwīl, to talk foolishly. ►taqawwul, pl. -āt, n., talk, rumor, gossip: vn. V. For other values of the root cf. ↗QWL and ↗qāla. Cf. also ↗QYL.