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), جَلَالَة (jalāla)
  • 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 (ʔajalla, “to honor, dignify, venerate; to deem too high, to consider to be above”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجْلَال (ʔijlāl)
  • 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 (ʔajillāʔ), أَجِلَّة (ʔajilla), جَلَائِل (jalāʔil), جِلَّة (jilla)
• أَجَلّ (ʔajall, “greater, more sublime, more splendid”)
• جَلَال (jalāl, “loftiness, sublimity, splendor”)
• جَلَالَة (jalāla, “sublimity, majesty”)
• مَجَلَّة (majalla, “periodical, magazine”)
• تَجِلَّة (tajilla), إِجْلَال (ʔijlāl, “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