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جبل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

جِبَالٌ جبال جبل (tropical:) The body, with, or without, the members; syn. جَسَدٌ and بَدَنٌ; (K, TA;) as being likened to a mountain in bigness [?]. (TA.) One says, أَحْسَنَ ا@للّٰهُ جِبَالَهُ, meaning, (tropical:) [ May God render beautiful ] his body (جَسَدَهُ): and [ render good ] his created خُلُق [or mind, with its qualities and attributes: but I rather think that خُلُق is here a mistranscription for خَلْق, meaning make ]. (Ibn-' Abbád, TA.)

Derived headwords

جِبَالٌ
  1. 1.
أَحْسَنَ ا@للّٰهُ جِبَالَهُ