Quranic root
جلس
j · l · s
The root centers on elevation: sitting up involves moving from a lower posture or place to a higher one, and related terms extend to elevated, hard terrain.
The primary notion of rugged or elevated ground develops into the act of sitting up or sitting, then into terms for a sitting-place and the people or activities associated with it.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
مَجْلِسٌ
majlisun
- 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.
A sitting-place: a place or setting where people sit.
In the Quranic plural مَجَالِس, the term can refer to the places in which people sit or gather.
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An assembly or company of people sitting together.
The Quranic plural مَجَالِس is contextually used for assemblies or gatherings in which people sit; the surrounding instruction concerns making room in them.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 58:11word 9
“the assemblies”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 58:11ٱلْمَجَـٰلِسِthe assemblies
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 20 Classical meanings
جَلَسَ
To sit; to sit up after sleeping, lying down, or prostration.
The verb may describe sitting up or becoming seated, and in جَلَسَ مَعَهُ or جَلَسَ إِلَيْهِ it means to sit with or by someone.
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جَلَسَ
Of an aquiline vulture, to lie or crouch on its breast upon the ground.
A figurative or specialized use, synonymous with جَثَمَ in the cited description.
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جَلَسَ
To remain or continue.
An assumed figurative extension, also said of a thing such as a plant.
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جَلَسَ
To come to al-Jals, the elevated country of Najd.
The same usage can be said of a cloud coming to Najd.
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جَالَسَ
To sit with someone; to keep someone’s company in sitting.
A reciprocal or associational construction, as in sitting with someone with whom one is congenial.
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أَجْلَسَ
To seat someone; to make someone sit or sit up.
It can also mean to give someone a place or settle someone in a sitting position.
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تَجَاسَلَ
To sit together, one with another.
The cited construction places the participants together in sitting-places or assemblies.
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اِسْتَجْلَسَ
To ask or desire someone to sit or sit up.
The form expresses requesting or wanting another person to take a seated position.
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جَلْسٌ
Rugged, hard, or elevated ground; especially the high country of Najd.
The term may denote a widely extending elevated tract and is contrasted with low country.
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جَلْسٌ
Persons sitting or sitting up; a company of people seated together.
The term can function as a quasi-plural or as a designation for the people of a sitting-place.
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جَلْسٌ
A woman who remains seated in the courtyard; according to another usage, a woman of noble rank among her people.
These are specialized lexical usages reported for the feminine referent of the term.
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جَلْسَةٌ
A single sitting or act of sitting up.
The noun denotes one occurrence of the action rather than its manner or state.
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جِلْسَةٌ
The mode, manner, kind, or state of sitting.
It describes how someone sits, as in having a good or commendable sitting posture.
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جُلَسَةٌ
A person who sits much; a sedentary person.
The term is an epithet for habitual or excessive sitting.
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جَلِيسٌ
A companion with whom one sits.
The word denotes a sitting companion or associate and has established plural forms in Classical Arabic.
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جَالِسٌ
A man or cloud coming to the high country of Najd.
This specialized use is distinct from the ordinary active-participial sense of being seated.
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مَجْلِسٌ
A seat or other thing upon which one sits.
This is distinct from مَجْلِسٌ as the place or gathering in which people sit.
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مَجْلِسٌ
An oration, discourse, or exhortation delivered in a sitting or assembly.
A specialized figurative use referring to speech associated with a مَجْلِس.
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مَجْلِسٌ
A person who is an object of resort, with whom others sit and converse.
This usage occurs in the construction مَجْلِسُ فُلَانٍ, by extension from the place where people gather with him.
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مَجْلِسٌ
In medical usage, a stool or evacuation.
A technical usage recorded for medical books.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic evidence supplied here consists of one occurrence of the plural مَجَالِس; the broader verbal, adjectival, and technical branches listed separately are Classical Arabic evidence rather than additional Quranic forms.