ج ل ل

ج ل ل • (j-l-l)

1. related to greatness and height

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: جَلَّ‎ (jalla, “to be great, lofty, illustrious, sublime; to be too great, to be beyond, to be far above”)
  • Verbal noun: جَلَال‎ (jalāl)
  • Active participle: جَالّ‎ (jāll)
  • Passive participle: مَجْلُول‎ (majlūl)
• Form II: جَلَّلَ‎ (jallala, “to honor, dignify, exalt; to cover, to envelop, clothe; to edge”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْلِيل‎ (tajlīl)
  • Active participle: مُجَلِّل‎ (mujallil)
  • Passive participle: مُجَلَّل‎ (mujallal)
• Form IV: أَجَلَّ‎ (ʾajalla, “to honor, dignify, venerate; to deem too high, to consider to be above”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجْلَال‎ (ʾijlāl)
  • Active participle: مُجِلّ‎ (mujill)
  • Passive participle: مُجَلّ‎ (mujall)
• Form VI: تَجَالَّ‎ (tajālla, “to deem oneself far above”), تَجَالَلَ‎ (tajālala, “to deem oneself far above”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَالُل‎ (tajālul)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَالّ‎ (mutajāll), مُتَجَالِل‎ (mutajālil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَجَالّ‎ (mutajāll), مُتَجَالَل‎ (mutajālal)
• Form X: اِسْتَجَلَّ‎ (istajalla, “to be great, exalted, sublime”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِجْلَال‎ (istijlāl)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَجِلّ‎ (mustajill)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَجَلّ‎ (mustajall)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• جَلَال‎ (jalāl, “important, significant”)
• جَلّ‎ (jall, “great, outstanding, bulky”)
• جُلّ‎ (jull, “majority”)
• جُلَّى‎ (jullā, “matter of great importance”); plural جُلَل‎ (julal)
• جَلِيل‎ (jalīl, “great, significant, exalted, venerable, glorious”); plurals أَجِلَّاء‎ (ʾajillāʾ), أَجِلَّة‎ (ʾajilla), جَلَائِل‎ (jalāʾil), جِلَّة‎ (jilla)
  • أَجَلّ‎ (ʾajall, “greater, more sublime, more splendid”)
• جَلَال‎ (jalāl, “loftiness, sublimity, splendor”)
  • جَلَالَة‎ (jalāla, “sublimity, majesty”)
• مَجَلَّة‎ (majalla, “periodical, magazine”)
• تَجِلَّة‎ (tajilla), إِجْلَال‎ (ʾijlāl, “honor, distinction, esteem, deference, respect, reverence”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “جل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Corriente, Federico (2005), “ج ل ل”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 179