جل

جُلٌّ جل The greater, main, principal, or chief, part of a thing; the most thereof; the main, gross, mass, or bulk, of it; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ جُلَالٌ. (K.) You say, أَخَذَ جُلَّهُ (K, TA) and ↓ جُلَالَهُ (S, Sgh, K) [ He took the greater part of it ]. -A2- A horse-cloth, or covering (Msb, K,) of a horse or similar beast, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) for protection (Msb, K) from the cold; (Msb;) as also ↓ جَلٌّ: (K:) [in Persian جَلْ:] pl. [of mult.] جِلَالٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَجْلَالٌ, (Msb, K,) and أَجِلَّةٌ is pl. of جِلَالٌ. (S, TA.) ― -b2- The cover of, or a thing with which one covers, a book, or volume; which latter is hence called ↓ مَجَلَّةٌ. (Er-Rághib in TA; but, in this sense, written without any vowel-sign.) -A3- The place of the pitching and constructing of a tent or house. (K.) -A4- Also, (S, K,) and ↓ جَلٌّ, (K,) The rose, (AHn, S, K,) the white and the red and the yellow; (AHn, K;) plentiful in the countries of the Arabs, both cultivated and wild: (AHn, TA:) a Persian word, arabicized; (AHn, * S, Sgh;) from كُلْ: (Sgh, TA:) and the jasmine: n. un. with ة. (K.) -A5- See also جِلٌّ: -A6- and جَلَلٌ.