رجل

رَجِلَ / رُجْلَة

To go on foot, remain or travel without a riding animal, or be strong and enduring in walking; of an animal, to endure long travel.

Includes the corresponding verbal noun and descriptions of a person or beast able to walk or travel on foot.

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رَجِلَ

To be large in the leg or foot.

• Lane · entry 22639

رَجِلَ

To suffer a complaint or unwanted condition affecting the leg or foot.

Also used with مِنْ رِجْلِهِ for being affected in the leg or foot by something disliked.

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رَجِلَ / أَرْجَل

Of a beast, to have whiteness in one hind leg or foot while the rest of the limbs lack that marking; أَرْجَل is the corresponding epithet.

The feminine form رَجْلَاء is used for a female animal with the described marking.

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رَجِل / رَجْل

Hair of a texture between lankness and crisp curliness: wavy or moderately curled.

The adjective can also describe a person having this kind of hair.

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رَجَّلَ / تَرَجَّلَ

To comb, arrange, wash, or anoint hair; to make hair hang down or become moderately arranged.

The transitive form may concern one's own hair or another person's hair; the associated noun denotes combed hair or hair-grooming.

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رَجَلَهُ

To hit or hurt someone in the leg or foot.

• Lane · entry 22639

رَجَلَ الشاة

To suspend or confine a sheep or goat by its hind leg or by pressing it with the feet.

The detailed descriptions vary between hanging the animal by its leg and restraining its folded limbs with the feet.

• Lane · entry 22639

رَجَلَتْ وَلَدَهَا

Of a woman, to give birth with the legs appearing before the head.

• Lane · entry 22639

رَجَلَ / أَرْجَلَ

To leave a young animal with its mother so that it may suck whenever it wishes; of the young animal, to suck its mother.

Applied to young camels and also to lambs, kids, calves, or colts; it can describe a mother whose udder is left unbound.

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رَجَلَ / أَرْجَلَ

Of a stallion, to mate with mares or to be sent among them.

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رَجَلَ المرأة

To press or compress a woman.

A specialized euphemistic bodily or sexual expression in the cited lexical evidence.

• Lane · entry 22639

رَجُل

A man much given to sexual intercourse.

A regional usage attributed to Arabs of Yemen; it is a characterization of sexual activity, not the ordinary meaning of رَجُل.

• Lane · entry 22648

رَجُلَة / مَرْجَلَانِيَّة

A woman who is or makes herself like a man in some qualities, states, appearance, or speech.

This is a marked classical description of a woman as manlike, distinct from the ordinary male-human noun.

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رَجُل / أَرْجَل

Perfect, complete, strong, or manly in bodily vigor or comparable qualities.

Used adjectivally or in comparison between two men; this classical evaluative use is broader than simple reference to a male person.

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تَرْجِيل

The making or rendering of something strong.

A verbal-noun use of Form II.

• Lane · entry 22640

أَرْجَلَ

To make someone go on foot or alight from a riding animal.

• Lane · entry 22641

أَرْجَلَ

To grant delay or respite; to leave someone alone for a while.

A distinct Form IV meaning unrelated to making someone walk.

• Lane · entry 22641

تَرَجَّلَ

To descend into a well by one's own legs, without being lowered or suspended by a rope.

The verb may be construed with the well directly or with فِي.

• Lane · entry 22642

تَرَجَّلَ / مُرْتَجِل

To produce fire while using the hands and feet to hold the two pieces of wood because one is alone.

The participle denotes the person who performs this operation with the lower piece held by the foot.

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تَرَجَّلَ

To become a man or rise to manhood; of a woman, to become manlike in some qualities or circumstances.

This is a derived-verb use, distinct from the noun for a male human.

• Lane · entry 22642

تَرَجَّلَ النهار

Of the day, to become advanced, with the sun somewhat high, or to pass below the walls.

A figurative expression likening the day or sun to a person standing or alighting.

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ارْتَجَلَ الفرس

Of a horse, to alternate or mix the paces called العَنَق and الهَمْلَجَة.

• Lane · entry 22643

ارْتَجَلَ الرجل

To take or seize a man by his leg or foot.

• Lane · entry 22643

ارْتَجَلَ

To speak, recite, compose, or perform something extemporaneously, without prior preparation or deliberation.

Applied especially to a speech, poem, name, or other production delivered without premeditation.

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ارْتَجَلَ برأيه

To act independently in an opinion, without consulting others, and persist in the position adopted.

Also used imperatively for keeping to one's undertaken affair.

• Lane · entry 22643

ارْتَجَلَ / مُرْتَجِل

To collect or come upon a detached group of locusts for roasting or cooking.

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ارْتَجَلَ

To set up or use a cooking pot for preparing food.

A specialized derived-verb use associated with مِرْجَل.

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اسْتَرْجَلَ

To desire or request to go on foot.

• Lane · entry 22644

عَلَى رِجْل

A figurative state of setting about an affair that presses heavily or urgently upon a person.

Derived from the image of standing on one leg; it is an idiom rather than an anatomical meaning.

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عَلَى رِجْل

To be in fear that something may escape or be missed.

An idiomatic use in the expression أَنَا عَلَى رِجْلٍ.

• Lane · entry 22646

ذُو الرِّجْل

A particular one-legged idol of the Hijaz.

• Lane · entry 22646

رِجْل الجبار

The bright star Rigel, regarded as the foot of Orion.

A specialized astronomical name.

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رِجْل الغراب / رِجْل الجراد

Names of certain plants, including plants associated with the appellations رِجْل الغراب and رِجْل الجراد.

The botanical referents vary by cited usage; the expression is not the ordinary anatomical noun.

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رِجْل الغراب

A method of binding a camel's udder so that its young cannot suck and the binding will not come undone.

The expression also supplies a metaphor for something made firm or difficult to undo.

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صُرَّتْ عليه رِجْل الغراب

For an affair or a person's livelihood to become difficult, constrained, or hard to manage.

A figurative idiom based on the secure udder-binding described in the associated lexical entry.

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رِجْل الطائر

A particular branding instrument or brand.

A specialized object-name.

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رِجْل الباب / رِجْل القوس / رِجْل السهم

The foot, heel, lower curved end, or extremity of an object such as a door, bow, or arrow.

The precise part varies with the object; the common extension is a supporting or lower extremity.

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رِجْل / رِجْلَة

A canal, channel, or watercourse through which water runs from stony ground to softer or level ground.

The related noun may also denote a place where water collects or a water-fed tract.

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رِجْل

A part, portion, or lateral half of a thing, including part of a carcass or a half of a water carrier.

The usage is figurative or synecdochic in the cited expressions and does not mean an anatomical leg there.

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رِجْل السراويل

A leg or pair of legs of trousers or drawers.

The singular expression can refer collectively to the two-legged garment.

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رِجْل الجراد

A swarm, detached group, or numerous assemblage of locusts.

The collective noun may be masculine or feminine and need not have a regular singular.

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رِجْل

An army or numerous armed group.

A transferred collective use likening an army to a swarm or gathered group.

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رِجْل

A share or portion in someone's property.

Used in the expression لِي فِي مَالِكَ رِجْلٌ.

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عَلَى رِجْل فلان

A time or period during a particular person's lifetime.

An idiom parallel to saying that something occurred during a person's time.

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لِيَ الرِّجْل

Precedence or priority in a contest or ordering.

Used when handlers of camels contend over who has precedence.

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رِجْل

Distress, straitened livelihood, pressing want, misfortune, calamity, or poverty.

A figurative classical use.

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رَجِل

A man who sleeps much.

• Lane · entry 22646

رَجِل

A foul-mouthed, ill-disposed, or socially withdrawn man who does not mix easily with others.

A specialized characterization associated with the epithet قاذورة.

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رَجِل

Blank paper without writing.

• Lane · entry 22646

رِجْلَة

A herd or detached group of wild animals gathered together.

• Lane · entry 22652

رَجْلَى / رَجِيل

Rugged, hard, or stony ground or a road difficult to traverse, where movement is possible only on foot.

The cited descriptions include both rough mountain roads and level ground made difficult by abundant stones.

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رُجْلَة

Manhood, manliness, or the condition of being a male human; also strength or vehemence in walking.

The noun has both a manhood branch and a walking-strength branch in the cited lexical evidence.

• Lane · entry 22651

الرُّجَيْلَاء

The successive bringing forth of young animals one after another.

Reported specifically of sheep or goats.

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رَجَلِيّ

A person known for running or traveling on foot.

The cited plural refers to named men famed for running on foot.

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رَاجِل

A pedestrian or footman, especially one without a riding animal; of a beast, one capable of enduring long travel.

This broader individual and animal application is distinct from the Quranic collective sense infantry.

• Lane · entry 22670

رَاجِلَة

A ram used by a shepherd to carry or convey his utensils.

A specialized pastoral term.

• Lane · entry 22671

أَرَاجِيل

Hunters, fowlers, or fishermen accustomed to capturing animals, birds, or fish.

A specialized plural usage.

• Lane · entry 22674

تَرَاجِيل

Smallage or a related garden herb.

A dialectal plant name of the Sawad.

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مُرْجِل

A woman who gives birth to male children.

Also explained as the equivalent of مُذْكِر.

• Lane · entry 22678

مِرْجَل

A copper or stone-and-copper cooking pot, or any vessel in which food is cooked.

The word may also denote a large cooking pot.

• Lane · entry 22679

مِرْجَل

A comb.

A distinct nominal homonym or specialized branch of the same written form.

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مِرْجَل

A figured or variegated Yemeni garment or cloth.

The cited usage includes a type of burd garment and cloth associated with full-grown men.

• Lane · entry 22679

مِرْجَلِيّ

A maker of cooking pots.

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مُرَجَّل

A skin removed beginning from one hind leg or from the part where the leg is attached.

The corresponding animal may be a sheep, goat, or ram.

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مُرَجَّل

A skin or leather vessel filled with wine.

• Lane · entry 22682

مُرَجَّل

A garment bearing figures of men or other figured decoration.

The evidence includes both human figures and ornamentation in the borders.

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مُرَجَّل

Locusts whose wing traces are visible on the ground.

A specialized descriptive epithet.

• Lane · entry 22682

مَرْجُول

A gazelle whose hind leg has been caught in a snare.

A foreleg caught in the snare receives a different designation in the cited contrast.

• Lane · entry 22683