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Quranic root

جلب

j · l · b

The root has two principal orientations: bringing something from one place to another, and a covering or layer that envelops something.

The bringing sense extends to attracting, procuring, mustering, and the agents or goods involved in transport. The covering sense includes skin coverings and the garment called جِلْبَاب.

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Quran-attested forms
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Quran senses
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Quran occurrences

Forms in the Quran

The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.

أَجْلَبَ

ʾajlaba

Part of speech
Verb · Form IV
Form
IV
Quran occurrences
1 occurrence

Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.

  1. To raise a clamour against an adversary, calling out with or bringing up one's forces against them.

    In the Quranic imperative construction أَجْلِبْ عَلَيْهِمْ, the action is directed against them and is associated with forces on horseback and on foot.

    • Lane · entry 47080
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 17:64word 6

    and assault

  2. To muster forces against someone and threaten them with evil; to cause forces to act in concert against them.

    This is an alternative Quranic interpretation of the construction أَجْلِبْ عَلَيْهِمْ, emphasizing collection and hostile intimidation rather than the raising of cries.

    • Lane · entry 47080
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 17:64word 6

    and assault

جِلْبَاب

jilbāb

Part of speech
Noun
Quran occurrences
1 occurrence

Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.

  1. An outer garment or enveloping wrap used to cover the body, head, or bosom.

    The Quranic form is the plural جَلَابِيب, referring to women's outer coverings; the singular citation form is جِلْبَاب.

    • Lane · entry 47095
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 33:59word 11

    their outer garments

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 17:64وَأَجْلِبْand assault
  • 33:59جَلَـٰبِيبِهِنَّ ۚtheir outer garments
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Broader Classical Arabic meanings

Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.

Show 47 Classical meanings
  • جَلَبَ

    To drive, bring, convey, or transport people, animals, goods, or merchandise from one place to another, especially for trade.

    The object may be a single thing or a group; the expression also occurs in discussions of bringing cattle to a collector or market.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • جَلَبَ

    To draw, attract, or procure something toward oneself.

    Also used figuratively of things that bring friends, benefits, or misfortunes.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • جَلَبَ

    To urge a racehorse onward by cries, chiding, striking, or by following or leading another horse behind it.

    A conventional racing usage, including the practice of using a person, horse, or object to urge a competing horse toward the finish.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • جَلَبَ لأَهْلِهِ

    To earn or procure provisions for one's family and to manage one's affairs resourcefully.

    The expression may imply purveying or exercising skill and practical ingenuity in family provision.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • جَلَبَ

    To raise cries, shouts, or confused noise; to make a clamour.

    This is the general noise-making use, distinct from the hostile Quranic construction represented under أَجْلَبَ.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • جَلَبَ عَلَيْهِ

    To commit a crime or punishable offense against someone.

    Used with عَلَى before the person against whom the offense is committed.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • جَلَبَ

    Of a wound or ulcer, to heal and become covered with skin; of blood, to dry.

    The healing and drying applications are grouped as related results of forming a covering or becoming dry.

    • Lane · entry 47080
    • Lane · entry 47109
  • جَلِبَ

    Of a company or troop, to assemble or become collected together.

    Intransitive use referring to a group that gathers.

    • Lane · entry 47080
  • تَجْلِيب

    The act of bringing together or collecting.

    A verbal noun of Form II, denoting the causative or completed act of gathering things together.

    • Lane · entry 47081
  • أَجْلَبَ

    Of camels, to bring forth male offspring.

    A specialized usage contrasted with أَحْلَبَ, to bring forth females.

    • Lane · entry 47083
  • أَجْلَبَ

    To aid, help, or assist another.

    A Classical Form IV usage, separate from its hostile Quranic construction.

    • Lane · entry 47083
  • أَجْلَبَ

    To put an amulet into a skin case.

    The amulet case is associated with a horse's trappings or similar equipment.

    • Lane · entry 47083
  • أَجْلَبَ قَتَبَهُ

    To cover a camel's saddle with a piece of fresh skin and leave it to dry and tighten.

    The construction takes the saddle as its object and refers to a skin covering called جُلْبَة.

    • Lane · entry 47083
  • اِنْجَلَبَ

    To be driven or brought from one place or country to another, especially for sale.

    Applied to animals, captives, slaves, or merchandise in an intransitive or passive-like construction.

    • Lane · entry 47085
  • اِجْتَلَبَ

    Of a poet, to take or borrow material from another poet's poetry.

    A figurative extension of bringing something in from elsewhere.

    • Lane · entry 47086
  • اِجْتَلَبَ

    To seek or demand a thing.

    The object is understood from context and need not be a transported commodity.

    • Lane · entry 47086
  • اِسْتَجْلَبَ

    To seek, demand, or desire that animals, captives, slaves, or merchandise be brought from elsewhere.

    The desired result is the transport of the specified object to the seeker's location or for sale.

    • Lane · entry 47087
  • جَلْبَبَ

    To put a garment called جِلْبَاب on another person.

    Transitive clothing construction.

    • Lane · entry 47088
  • تَجَلْبَبَ

    To put on or cover oneself with a جِلْبَاب or other garment.

    Reflexive or intransitive clothing construction, applicable to a man or woman.

    • Lane · entry 47089
  • جُلْب

    The blackness of night.

    A nominal use, sometimes treated as figurative in the lexical discussion.

    • Lane · entry 47090
  • جِلْب

    A camel saddle of the kind called رَحْل, including its cover, wooden parts, or curved wooden parts.

    The word may denote the whole saddle or one of its specified components, according to context.

    • Lane · entry 47091
  • جِلْب

    A thin or waterless cloud, including a cloud extending across the horizon like a mountain or mountain range.

    The cloud may be described as narrow, distant, or darkening; its lack of water is part of some definitions.

    • Lane · entry 47091
  • جَلَب

    Animals, goods, or merchandise brought from one place to another for sale; also transport camels carrying people's goods.

    This noun is also used for the camels or loads brought to a person at a water or settlement; جَلُوبَة is explicitly treated as a synonym or related form.

    • Lane · entry 47092
    • Lane · entry 47104
  • جَلَب

    Male camels brought or driven for sale.

    A specialized nominal application connected with the practice of driving them from place to place.

    • Lane · entry 47092
  • جَلَب

    Persons who drive or bring camels, sheep, goats, or other goods from one place or country to another for sale.

    The plural may refer to a group of such animal or merchandise drivers.

    • Lane · entry 47092
  • جَلَب

    Cries, shouts, noises, or a confused mixture of sounds.

    A nominal use for clamour or noisy confusion.

    • Lane · entry 47092
  • جَلَب

    An assembly of men.

    A specialized nominal use related to the sense of gathering.

    • Lane · entry 47092
  • جُلْبَة

    The small piece of skin, crust, or scab that forms over a healing wound.

    The plural is جُلَب.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جُلْبَة

    A piece of skin placed upon a camel's saddle.

    It may serve as a covering or be left to dry over the saddle; this is distinct from the wound scab sense.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جُلْبَة

    A skin case for an amulet, or an amulet with a piece of skin sewn upon it.

    The object may be the case itself or the amulet equipped with that covering.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جُلْبَة

    A detached portion of cloud or a cloud covering the sky.

    A cloud formation sense related to the covering or overlying branch of the root.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جُلْبَة

    A patch of ground differing from the land adjoining it.

    Synonymous with بُقْعَة in this application.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جُلْبَة

    A detached portion of herbage or pasture.

    Refers to an isolated patch of grazing or vegetation.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جُلْبَة

    Severity, pressure, hunger, adversity, or a hard and distressful year.

    The word may denote the vehemence of hunger or the general severity of circumstances.

    • Lane · entry 47093
  • جِلِبَّات

    Dominion, sovereignty, or rule with which a person is invested.

    A figurative application of the garment or covering terminology.

    • Lane · entry 47095
  • جُلُبَّان

    A certain pulse or grain, including the seed known as خُلَّر and the common lathyrus or chickling vetch.

    A collective plant name with several dialectal pronunciations and forms.

    • Lane · entry 47099
  • جُلُبَّان

    A leather case or scabbard-like container for a sword, whip, implements, or other weapons.

    جُلُبَّان السلاح may include the case and its contents, or weapons requiring effort to draw rather than a lance.

    • Lane · entry 47099
  • جُلُبَّان

    A clamorous man or one who makes confused cries or noise.

    A personal noun derived from the noise-making branch.

    • Lane · entry 47099
  • جَلِيب

    A person, especially a slave, brought from one place or country to another for sale.

    Applied to a man or woman; one usage specifies arrival in Muslim territory.

    • Lane · entry 47103
  • جَلِيبَة

    An acquired or affected habit or disposition.

    An explicitly figurative application.

    • Lane · entry 47105
  • جُلَّاب

    Rose-water.

    An Arabicized loanword, lexically distinct from the root's native branches.

    • Lane · entry 47107
  • جَلَّابَة

    A woman who is clamorous, noisy, very garrulous, or ill-natured; a related form may describe someone rude and coarse.

    The source explicitly applies this personal noun to a woman.

    • Lane · entry 47108
  • جَالِب

    A cause or means of bringing, drawing, attracting, or procuring something.

    The plural may denote causes through which events or benefits are brought about.

    • Lane · entry 47109
  • جَوَالِب

    Calamities, misfortunes, adverse events, or difficulties.

    A figurative plural use for things that bring adversity.

    • Lane · entry 47109
  • مُجْلِب

    A person who puts an amulet into a skin case and sews it onto a horse's trappings.

    A specialized occupational or functional noun.

    • Lane · entry 47111
  • مُجَلِّب

    Boisterous, applied to thunder or rain.

    A descriptive participial use for loud or tumultuous weather.

    • Lane · entry 47113
  • يَنْجَلِب

    A bead, gem, or similar stone used as a charm to captivate someone, restore affection, or bring back a person after flight.

    A traditional desert charm; the source also reports a view that this item is quadriliteral.

    • Lane · entry 47114

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic command in 17:64 has two explicitly recorded lexical interpretations: raising a hostile clamour with forces, and mustering forces while threatening the adversary. The nominal Quranic form جَلَابِيب is presented under its singular citation form جِلْبَاب.

Unassigned or ambiguous evidence

  • lane-unit:jlb:47084:g1:main reports a Form V gloss attributed to Golius, but the lexical source explicitly states that the gloss cannot be found in the cited lexicons; it is therefore not assigned a dictionary meaning.