Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 94, where the headword phrase occurs. (See further below.) Some take it to mean either "the ever-turning (or swift-circling) night" or "darkening night."
For discussion of the many possible meanings of its adjective see alphaiota 253, cf. alphaiota 245, alphaiota 246.
[1] Sophocles, Trachiniae 94 (with ai)o/la not ai)o/lh: text at web address 1). The scholia there have a fuller gloss: "black, according to the modern school; or multicoloured (= dotted?) because of the stars; or 'night the swift' because of nukti\ qoh=| ('in swift night') in Homer (Iliad 12.463, cf. 10.394, 468, 24.366, 653, Odyssey 12.284)." For Homer's concept of the coming of night as a swift-moving substance through which one walks, see R.R. Dyer, Glotta 52 (1974) 31-36.