جلل

جَلِيل

Thick, gross, coarse, rough, large, bulky, or great in physical size.

Used of material substances and large-bodied things, including a large-bodied camel; opposed to دَقِيق or دِقّ in the sense of fine, small, or slender.

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جَلَال

Greatness in estimation, rank, or dignity.

A general Classical sense of greatness or high standing, distinct from the Quranic use of absolute divine majesty.

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جَلِيل

Great or eminent in rank; a person or group of distinction, nobility, or high standing.

Applied to persons and groups, including chiefs or people of rank.

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جَلَّ

An exclamatory intensifier meaning “how greatly” or “how very much.”

Occurs in an emphatic exclamatory construction such as جَلَّ مَا بَعُدَتْ.

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جَلَّ

To become old or advanced in age, and firm or sound in judgment.

Applied to people, camels, and other specified living subjects.

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جَلَّتْ

To be too young to bear offspring.

A contrary lexical use in the expression جَلَّتِ الهَاجِنُ عَنِ الوَلَدِ.

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جَلَّ

To go forth or emigrate from one country, town, or dwelling to another; a departing or exiled group.

The derived noun جَالٌّ may denote one who departs, and جَالَّةٌ a departing or exiled population.

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جُلّ

The greater, main, principal, or chief part of something; its bulk or mass.

The associated verb may mean to take the greater part or main portion of something.

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جَلَلَ

To bring an injury or harmful consequence upon oneself.

An idiomatic construction such as جَلَلْتَ هَذَا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ.

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جَلَّ

To pick up or collect animal dung, sometimes specifically for use as fuel.

The object is camel, sheep, goat, or similar dung.

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جَلَّلَ

To include, cover, or envelop something throughout its general extent.

Used of rain or clouds covering the land, including it within the extent of their fall; the construction may also simply mean to cover a thing.

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جَلَّلَ

To ascend, rise, mount, or get upon or over something.

A derived Form II use describing movement onto or over an object.

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جَلَّلَ

To clothe or equip a horse or other beast with a protective covering.

The related passive participle denotes an animal clad with such a covering.

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أَجَلَّ

To make thick, gross, large, or great.

A causative use opposed to making something fine or small.

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أَجَلَّ

To magnify, honor, or exalt someone in rank or station.

Used of honoring God or a person and recognizing greatness or majesty.

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أَجَلَّ

To give much or a large amount.

May describe giving a large feed, such as a substantial quantity of grain to a horse.

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أَجَلَّ

To give someone a mature she-camel, or conversely not to give either a mature camel or a young camel.

A specialized livestock-giving construction contrasting a mature animal with a young or small one.

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أَجَلَّ

To become strong; in another reported use, to become weak.

The two contrary meanings are attributed to the same derived form in different usage traditions.

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تَجَلَّلَ

To sit upon or mount an animal, including mounting it sexually.

Used of sitting upon a horse and of a stallion mounting a she-camel; the construction is not restricted to the gender or class of the object beyond the cited animal usage.

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تَجَالَّ

To exalt oneself above something, hold oneself aloof from it, or disdain it.

Constructed with عَنْ or عَلَى and describing self-elevation or disdain.

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جَلْجَلَ

To sound, ring, or produce a vehement reverberating sound; by extension, to threaten.

Used of a little bell, thunder, or other loud sound; a related construction can denote a threatening utterance from behind a covering or concealment.

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جَلْجَلَ

For a horse, to neigh clearly or distinctly.

A specialized animal-sound use.

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جَلْجَلَ

To move or shake something by hand; to shuffle, mix, or twist it vigorously.

Used of moving gaming arrows, mixing an object, or strongly twisting a bowstring or similar cord.

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تَجَلْجَلَ

To be or become in motion, or to be put into motion.

An intransitive or passive-like motion use.

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تَجَلْجَلَ

To become agitated or disturbed in the mind.

A figurative internal-state use.

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تَجَلْجَلَ

To sink, become depressed, or subside.

Used of foundations or other structures that sink or give way.

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جَلّ

The sail of a ship.

A nominal nautical use, with a plural form also reported.

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جَلّ

A small, easy, mean, paltry, or contemptible matter.

A contrary value of جَلَلٌ or related forms, opposite to the sense of something great or momentous.

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جُلّ

A covering, especially a protective horse-cloth; also a cover for a book or volume.

The covering may protect a horse or similar beast from cold, or cover written material.

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جُلّ

The place where a tent or house is pitched and constructed.

A specialized nominal sense for a building or encampment site.

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جُلّ

The rose, including its white, red, and yellow varieties; also jasmine.

A plant name identified as an Arabicized Persian loanword.

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جِلّ

The stalks of grain or other seed-produce after reaping, including stalks left in the field.

The term may distinguish the reaped stalks from تِبْن after threshing and cutting.

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جَلَّة

Animal dung, especially that of camels, sheep, goats, or similar animals; by metonymy, human ordure.

May denote a single lump or unbroken piece and, in later use, dung mixed with chopped straw and dried as fuel.

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جُلَّة

A large woven palm-leaf receptacle, especially a basket or container for dates.

It may also serve other practical container or covering purposes.

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جَلَل

The portion taken from cattle; in the associated verbal construction, to take or consume that portion.

A lexical branch reported in connection with taking the edible or usable part of cattle, distinct from the general sense of greatness.

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جَلَل

A great, momentous, formidable, hard, difficult, severe, or distressing matter or event.

Used of an affair, case, or event of substantial consequence.

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جَلَل

On account of, for the sake of, or because of someone or something.

Occurs in the idiomatic prepositional construction مِنْ جَلَلِكَ and its variants.

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جَلَل

A particle equivalent to نَعَمْ, meaning “yes.”

A grammatical particle use attributed to a Classical authority.

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جِلَال

The deck or roof-like part of a ship.

A singular nautical noun, also connected in the lexicon with coverings or ship sails.

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جَلِيل

A large palm tree bearing abundant fruit.

A specialized botanical use.

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جَلِيل

A species of ثُمَام, a weak panic-grass or panicum used to stop the interstices of houses.

A plant noun with a reported plural جَلَائِلُ.

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جَلَّالَة

A large-bodied or substantial she-camel.

This is distinct from the homonymous term for an animal that eats filth.

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جُلِّيّ

A seller of protective coverings for horses or similar beasts.

A relational noun derived from جُلّ, the animal covering.

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جَلَّالَة

An animal that repeatedly eats filth or human ordure, especially a cow; by extension, the animal's milk or flesh is prohibited.

A specialized legal and livestock term.

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جُلْجُل

A small bell, especially a hollow metal bell hung on a horse, similar beast, or hawk.

The associated plural is جَلَاجِلُ.

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جُلْجُل

To imperil or endanger oneself.

A figurative use of hanging or tying a little bell, denoting bold exposure to danger or notoriety.

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جُلْجُلَان

The fruit of coriander or sesame, including sesame in its husk before reaping and its grain.

A botanical and agricultural noun with more than one reported application.

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جُلْجُلَان

The core or kernel of the heart.

A figurative expression for the innermost center of a person's feelings or thoughts.

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جُلْجُلَان

That which is great in estimation.

A specialized nominal use distinct from the botanical term جُلْجُلَان.

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جُلَاجِل

An ass that brays clearly; also a she-camel with a similarly clear call.

An animal epithet derived from clear or resonant sound.

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جُلَاجِل

A boy who is lively, brisk, sprightly, or light in spirit.

An epithet for energetic conduct and work.

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جُلَاجِل

To reveal what is agitated or stirred in one's mind.

Occurs in the construction أَبْثَثْتُهُ جُلَاجِلَ نَفْسِي.

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جَالّ

The poll-tax, derived from the term for a departing or expelled population.

A substantivized administrative and fiscal use; the related feminine or collective form may denote its payer population.

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أَجَلّ

Greater, greatest, thicker, or thickest; by extension, most exalted or majestic.

With the definite article it may be applied to God as a superlative epithet.

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تَجِلَّة

The act of magnifying or honoring.

A verbal noun comparable to تَكْرِمَةٌ.

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مَجَلَّة

A written page, book, volume, or other writing containing knowledge; hence, a journal or periodical.

The term may denote any book or written work, including a work of poetry.

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مَجَلَّة

Knowledge or a body of doctrine, especially practical legal science.

A semantic extension from a written repository of knowledge.

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مَجْلُول

Water into which animal or human dung has fallen.

A specialized descriptive term derived from جَلَّة.

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مُجَلْجَل

A person exceptionally excellent or elegant in mind, manners, speech, appearance, or conduct, with no evident fault.

An evaluative epithet for a faultless or highly accomplished person.

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مُجَلْجَل

A camel that has attained full strength.

A specialized livestock epithet.

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مُجَلْجَل

Camels bearing small bells.

Used in the plural expression إِبِلٌ مُجَلْجَلَةٌ.

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مُجَلْجِل

A cloud containing or producing the sound of thunder; by extension, sounding rain.

Distinct from مُجَلِّل, which describes rain covering the land rather than thunderous sound.

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مُجَلْجِل

A strong or formidable chief, or a bold, forceful, eloquent person whose voice or fame reaches far.

The epithet can include courage in exposing oneself to peril and vigor in defending or repelling.

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