Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

5 تَجَعَّدَ see 1, in two places.

جَعْدٌ جعد , applied to hair, (S, A, Msb, K,) Crisp, or curly, or twisted, and contracted; (Msb;) contr. of سَبْطٌ (K,) or of مُسْتَرْسِلٌ: (Msb:) or short. (Kr, K.) ― -b2- Applied to a man, (S,) Having hair such as is termed جَعْد: (S, Msb, K:) [or] so جَعْدُ الشَّعَرِ: (A, TA:) fem. with ة: (S, Msb, K:) pl. جِعَادٌ. (A, Msb.) ― -b3- As an epithet of praise, it has two meanings; namely, (assumed tropical:) Compact in limbs, and strong in make; not flabby, nor of slack, or incongruous, make; (L;) or big, or bulky, and compact; (Ham p. 238;) or, as some say, light, or active: (TA:) and having crisp, or curly, not lank, hair; because lankness is the prevalent characteristic of the hair of the Greeks and Persians; and crispness, or curliness, is the prevalent characteristic of the hair of the Arabs: but very crisp, or frizzled, or woolly, hair, like that of the Zenj and the Nubians, is disapproved. (L.) ― -b4- [Hence,] (tropical:) Generous; bountiful; munificent; (T, S, A, K;) alluding to a man's being an Arab of generous disposition, because the Arabs are characterized by crisp, or curly, hair. (A.) As did not know جعد in this sense; but it occurs in many verses of the Ansár. (T, TA.) ― -b5- As an epithet of dispraise, it has also two meanings; namely, (assumed tropical:) Short, and incongruous in make: (L:) [ contr. of سَبْطٌ:] ― -b6- and (tropical:) Niggardly; (As, T, S, L, K;) as also جَعْدُ اليَدَيْنِ, (S, K,) and جَعْدُ الأَنَامِلُ, (S,) and جَعْدُ الأَصَابِعُ, (A,) or this signifies (assumed tropical:) having short fingers, (K,) and جَعْدُ البَنَانِ, and جَعْدُ الكَفِّ, (Har p. 96,) and جَعْدُ الجَنَانِ; (A;) contr. of [سَبْطُ اليَدَيْنِ, and] سبطُ اليَدِ and سبطُ البَنَانِ [&c.]: (Har ubi suprà:) and mean; ungenerous; base: (L:) and جَعْدُ القَفَا (tropical:) mean, or ignoble, in respect of rank, quality, reputation, or the like. (A, K.) ― -b7- A camel having much fur: (K:) or having crisp, or curly, and abundant, fur. (S.) [Hence,] أَبُو الجَعْدِ a surname of The camel. (L.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) Soft moist earth; as also ثَعْدٌ: (S:) or moist earth. (K.) ― -b9- (assumed tropical:) A mess of the kind called حَيْس that is thick, (L, K,) not flowing; (L;) as also ↓ مُجَعَّدٌ. (L, K.) IAar cites the following words of a poet, accusing a woman of foul conduct: ↓ وَتَخْلِطُ بِالمَأْقُوطِ حَيْسًا مُجَعَّدًا [ And she mixes thick حيس with the food prepared with أَقِط]; meaning, she confounds men together, and does not select him who is to have intercourse with her. (L.) ― -b10- (assumed tropical:) Froth, or foam, accumulated upon the fore part of the mouth of a camel. (S, * L.) And جَعْدُ اللُّغَامِ (assumed tropical:) A camel having froth, or foam, accumulated upon the fore part of his mouth. (S, * L, K. *) ― -b11- (assumed tropical:) A cheek rough, or coarse, and short; not أَسِيل. (L, K.) And (assumed tropical:) A round face, with little مِلْح [or beauty ], (K, TA,) or, as in some copies of the K, لَحْم [or flesh ]. (TA.) And قَدَمٌ جَعْدَةٌ (tropical:) A short foot; (A, TA;) characteristic of low origin. (TA.) ― -b12- It is also applied, in the manner of an intensive epithet, to the plant called صِلِّيَان; and in like manner, with ة, to the plant called بُهْمَى. (TA.) ― -b13- نَاقَةٌ جَعْدَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A she-camel compact in make, and strong. (TA.)

مُجَعَّدٌ مجعد : see جَعْدٌ, in two places.

مُتَجَعِّدٌ متجعد Moist earth contracted, and compacted in lumps. (L in art. عقد.)

1 جَعَرَ جعر , aor. جَعَرَ , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. جَعْرٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انجعر; (K;) said of a beast or bird of prey (S, Msb, K *) having claws, or talons, (S, K, *) or a hyena, and a dog, and a cat, (TA,) and metaphorically of a rat or mouse, (Msb,) He voided his dung. (S, Msb, K.)

5 تجعّر جعر تجعر , (S, K,) or تجعّر بِجِعَارٍ, (TA,) He bound upon his (i. e. his own) waist a rope of the kind called جِعَار. (S, K, TA.)

7 اـِنْجَعَرَ see 1.

جَعْرٌ جعر , originally an inf. n., (Msb,) The dung of a beast or bird of prey (S, Msb, K) having claws, or talons; (S, K;) as also ↓ جَاعِرَةٌ; (K;) which is like رَوْثٌ in relation to a horse: (TA:) or the dung of the hyena: (A:) [and of the dog, and cat: see 1:] or dry dung upon the مَجْعَر, q. v.: (K:) or dung that comes forth dry: (IAth, TA:) and (tropical:) that of the rat or mouse: (Msb:) pl. جُعُورٌ. (K.) ― -b2- See also جُعْرُورٌ. -A2- Also Costiveness. (TA.)

جُعْرَةٌ جعر جعره جعرة A mark left by the rope called جِعَار (Th, K) upon the waist of a man. (Th, TA.)

جَعْرَاآءُ جعراآء : see مَجْعَرٌ.

أَبُو جِعْرَانَ ذ [in which the latter word is imperfectly decl. because it is a proper name ending with the augment ان] The [ black beetle called ] جُعَل, (Kr, K, TA,) in a general sense: or, as some say, a certain species thereof. (TA.) ― -b2- And أُمُّ جِعْرَانَ, (K, TA,) or أُمُّ جِعْرَانَةَ, (so in a copy of the K,) The رَخَمَة [or female of the vultur percnopterus ]. (Kr, K.)

جُعْرُورٌ جعرور A bad kind of dates; (Msb, K;) also metaphorically called الفَأْرَةِ ↓ جَعْرُ [ the rat's, or mouse's, dung ], because of the bad smell, and the diminutiveness, thereof: (Msb:) and you also say جُعْرُورٌ: (TA:) or a species of the دَقَل, which is the worst kind of dates: (S:) or a species of the [ kind of palm-tree called ] دَقَل that bears small things [or dates ] in which is no good. (As, TA.) [See عَذْقُ الجُبَيْقِ, in art. حبق.]

جِعِرَّى جعرى جعري : see مَجْعَرٌ.

جَعارِ جعار , (S, A, K,) like قَطَامِ, (K,) indecl., with kesr for its termination, because it deviates from its original form, which is جَاعِرَةٌ, and is of the fem. gender, and has the quality of an epithet in which that of a subst. is predominant, so that the thing to which it applies is known by it like as it is known by its proper name; and as it is prevented from being perfectly decl. by two causes, it must be indecl. by reason of three; as we also say with respect to حَلَاقِ, a proper name of death; (S;) The she-hyena; (S, A, K;) a name of that animal (S) because of the abundance of its dung; (S, A;) as also أُمُّ جَعَارِ, and ↓ جَيْعَرٌ, and ↓ أُمُّ جَعْوَرٍ. (K.) Hence, أَعْيَثُ مِنْ جَعَارِ [ More mischievous than the she-hyena ]: a prov. (A, TA.) And تِيسِى جَعَارِ (K) Be thou like the he-goat in stupidity, O she-hyena; a prov. applied to a stupid man: (A and TA in art. تيس, q. v.:) or عِيثِى جَعَارِ [ Do mischief, O she-hyena ]; a prov. used in declaring a thing to be vain, or false. (K.) And رُوعِى جَعَارِ وَا@نْظُرِى أَيْنَ المَفْرِ [for المَفِرُّ, Be afraid, O she-hyena, and look where is a place to which to flee ]: (K, * TA:) or رُوغِى [i. e. turn aside, this way and that ]: (S and TA in art. روغ:) a prov. applied to him who seeks to escape, and cannot: (TA:) or with reference to a coward, and his submissiveness. (K.) And قُومِى جَعَارِ [ Rise, O she-hyena ]: said to a woman, in reviling her; likening her to a she-hyena. (ISk, TA.)

جِعَارٌ جعار A certain mark made with a hot iron upon [ the part called ] the جَاعَرَتَانِ: (K:) accord. to the Tedhkireh of Aboo-'Alee, one of the marks, so made, of camels. (Ibn-Habeeb, TA.) -A2- A rope which a man who waters ties to a stake, and then binds upon his waist, when he descends into a well, lest he should fall into it: (S:) or a rope which a drawer of water binds upon his waist, (K, TA,) when he descends into a well, (TA,) lest he should fall into the well; (K, TA;) the end being in the hand of another man, who, if he falls, pulls him up with it. (TA.)

أُمُّ جَعْوَرٌ ذ : see جَعَارِ.

جَيْعَرٌ جيعر : see جَعَارِ.

جَاعِرَةٌ جاعره جاعرة : see مَجْعَرٌ. ― -b2- الجَاعِرَتَانِ The place of the [ two marks made by cauterization which are called the ] رَقْمَتَانِ, in the buttocks (اِسْت) of an ass: (S, K:) or the places of cauterization in the hinder part, upon the [ two portions of the thighs called the ] كَاذَتَانِ, of an ass: (TA:) and the part, (S, K,) or two parts, (A,) which the tail strikes, (S, A, K,) upon the two thighs of a horse, (S, K,) or of a beast, where he is cauterized: (A:) or the two edges of the haunches projecting over the thighs [ behind ]; (As, S, K;) i. e., the two places which the farrier marks, making lines upon them [ with a hot iron ] (يَرْقُهُمَُا): or the heads of the upper parts of the two thighs: or the depressed part of the haunch and thigh, in the place of the joint. (TA.) -A2- See also جَعْرٌ.

مَجْعَرٌ مجعر The rump, or podex; or the anus; [in the present day, the latter;] syn. دُبُرٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ جَعْرَاآءُ and ↓ جِعِرَّى and ↓ جَاعِرَةٌ the same; syn. اِسْتٌ; (K;) or the last (جاعرة), as some say, i. q. حَلْقَةُ الدُّبُرِ. (S, K.)

مِجْعَارٌ مجعار A man very, or often, costive; (K;) as also مِجْعَارُ البَطْنِ. (TA.)

Q. Q. 1 جَعْمَسَ جعمس He (a man, TA) deposited his ordure, or excrement, at once: (K, TA:) or in a dry, or tough, state. (TA.) The م is augmentative. (Sgh, TA.)

جعْسٌ جعس , (S, K,) and ↓ جِعْسٌ, (TA,) and ↓ جُعْمُوسٌ; (AZ, S, and K in art. جعمس,) the first of which is post-classical; (S, K;) and the last, the term used by the Arabs [of the classical ages]; (S;) Human ordure, or excrement; (AZ, TA in art. جعمس;) syn. رَجِيعٌ: (S, K:) or the first signifies the place in which the جُعْمُوس falls: (IDrd, K:) the م in the last word is augmentative; and its pl. is جَعَامِيسُ. (S.) You say, ↓ رَمَى بِجَعَامِيسِ بَطْنِهِ [ He cast forth the excrements of his belly ]. (S.)

جِعْسٌ جعس : see the next preceding paragraph.

جُعْمُوسٌ جعموس ; pl. جَعَامِيسُ: see جَعْسٌ.

جُعَامِسٌ جعامس A man (TA) who deposits his ordure, or excrement, at once: (K:) or in a dry, or tough, state: as also ↓ مُجَعْمِسٌ. (TA.)

مُجَعْمِسٌ مجعمس : see what next precedes.

1 جَعَفَهُ جعفه جعفة , (S, K,) aor. جَعَفَ , (K,) inf. n. جَعْفٌ, (TA,) He prostrated him; threw him down upon the ground; (S, K;) cast him upon the gronnd; like جَعَبَهُ; (TA;) namely, a man; (S;) as also ↓ اجعفهُ. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b2- He pulled it, or plucked it, out, or up; (S, K;) namely, a thing, (S,) or a tree; (K, TA;) and turned it over, or upside down; (TA;) as also ↓ اجتعفهُ. (K, TA.)

4 أَجْعَفَ see 1.

7 انجعف انجعف [ He became prostrated, thrown down upon the ground, or cast upon the ground: see its part. n., below]. ― -b2- It (a thing, S, or a tree, K) became pulled, or pluckt, out, or up. (S, K.)

8 اـِجْتَعَفَ see 1.

جُعَافٌ جعاف : see what next follows.

جَاعِفٌ جاعف , applied to a torrent, i. q. جُحَافٌ [ That carries away everything ]; as also ↓ جُعَافٌ: (K:) and that overturns everything upon which it comes. (TA.)

مَجْعَفٌ مجعف A place where one is prostrated, or thrown down upon the ground. (TA.)

مَجْعُوفٌ مجعوف Prostrated, or thrown down upon the ground; as also ↓ مُنْجَعِفٌ. (TA.)

مُنْجَعِفٌ منجعف : see what next precedes.

Q. 1 جَعْفَدَةٌ جعفده جعفدة [inf. n. of جَعْفَدَ] a compound word from the phrase جَعَلَنِى ا@للّٰهُ فِدَاكَ [May God make me thy ransom]. (Ibn-Dihyeh, TA.) [You say, جَعْفَدَهُ, meaning He said to him جعلنى اللّٰه فداك.]

جَعْفَرٌ جعفر A small river; a rivulet, streamlet, or brook; (IAar, S, K;) or one that is larger than a جَدْوَلٌ: (K:) or, as in the Nawádir, a small river, larger than a جدول: (TA:) or a river, IDrd, IJ, TA,) absolutely: (TA:) if small, it is a فَلَج: (IDrd, TA:) or (TA, but in the K “ and ”) a large, wide river: (Ibn-El-Ajdábee, K:) [if so,] bearing two contr. significations: (K:) or (in some copies of the K “ and ”) a full river. (K.) ― -b2- Also (from the last of these significations, TA) (tropical:) A she-camel abounding with milk. (K, TA.)

1 جَعَلَ جعل , aor. جَعَلَ , inf. n. جَعْلٌ (S, Msb, K) and جُعْلٌ and جَعَالَةٌ and جِعَالَةٌ (K) and مَجْعَلٌ, (S, TA,) He made a thing; syn. صَنَعَ; (Msb, K;) but having a more general signification than فَعَلَ and صَنَعَ and their equivalents [as will be shown by what follows]; (Er-Rághib, TA;) and so ↓ اجتعل: (K:) both these verbs signify the same. (S.) ― -b2- He made a thing of, or from, a thing; as in the saying [in the Kur xvi. 74 and xlii. 9], جَعَلَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا [ He hath made for you, of, or from, yourselves, wives ]; and [in the Kur xvi. 83] وَجَعَلَ لَكُمْ مِنَ الجِبَالِ أَكْنَانًا [ And He hath made for you, of the mountains, places of retreat; as caves, and excavated houses or chambers: so explained by Bd]. (TA.) ― -b3- He created; (K, TA;) brought into being, or existence; (TA;) as in the saying [in the Kur vi. 1], وَJَعَلَ الظُّلُمَاتِ وَالنُّورِ [ And hath created, or brought into being, the darknesses and the light ]; (K, TA;) and [in the Kur xxi. 31] وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ المَاآءِ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ حَىٍّ [ And We have created of water, or the seminal fluid, everything living ]; and [in the Kur xvi. 80, &c.,] وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ السَّمْعَ وَ الأَبْصَارَ وَالأَفْئِدَةَ [ And He created for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts ]. (TA.) ― -b4- He made, or prepared; as in the saying [in the Kur lxv. 2], يَجْعَلُ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا [ He will make, or prepare, for him a way of escape, or safety ]; and [in the Kur lxv. 4] يَجْعَلُ لَهُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ يُسْرًا [ He will make, or prepare, for him an easy state of his circumstances; i. e., will make his circumstances, or case, easy to him ]. (TA.) ― -b5- He made; meaning he made to be, or become; he constituted; he appointed; [in which sense it is doubly trans.;] (S, K;) as in the saying in the Kur [xix. 31], وَجَعَلْنِى نَبِيًّا [ And He hath made me a prophet ]; (S;) [and in the elliptical phrase, جَعَلَهُ عَلَيْهِ He made him to be superintendant, or the like, over it; set him, or appointed him, over it: ] and in the phrase, جَعَلَ القَبِيحَ حَسَنًا [ He made that which was bad to be, or become, good ]. (K.) ― -b6- He made a thing to be in a particular state or condition; as in the saying [in the Kur ii. 20], الَّذِ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الأَرْضَ فِرَاشًا [ Who hath made for you the earth to be as a bed ]; and [in the Kur lxxi. 15] وَجَعَلَ القَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا [ And hath made the moon, in them (the heavens), to be as a light ]; and so, as some say, in the saying [in the Kur xliii. 2], اـِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهُ قُرْاآنًا عَرَبِيًّا [ Verily we have made it an Arabic Kur-án ]. (TA.) ― -b7- [ He made a thing to be in an altered, or changed, state or condition; i. e.,] the verb signifies also the changing a thing from its state or condition; as in the saying [in the Kur xi. 84 and xv. 74], جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا [ We made their upper part to be their lower part ]; (K;) and in the words of the Kur [lvi. 81], وَتَجْعَلُونَ رِزْقَكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ تُكَذِّبُونَ [ And do ye make the thanks that ye should render for your sustenance to be that ye charge with falsehood the Giver thereof by attributing it to the stars called أَنْوَاآء as expl. by Bd and Jel]. (TA.) ― -b8- He pronounced (Er-Rághib, K) a thing by a true judgment or decision, (Er-Rághib,) or as a legal ordinance; (K;) as in the saying (of the Legislator, TA), جَعَلَ ا@للّٰهُ الصَّلَوَاتِ المَفْرُوضَاتِ خَمْسًا [ God hath pronounced the prayers that are made obligatory to be five ] (K.) And He pronounce (Er-Rághib, K *) a thing by a false judgment or decision, (Er-Rághib,) or according to his own judgment, heretically; (K;) as in the saying [in the Kur xv. 91], الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا القُرْاآنَ عِضِينَ [ Who pronounced the Kur-án to be lies, or enchantment, &c.]. (Er-Rághib, K.) ― -b9- He called, or named, (S, Msb, K,) a thing; (Msb;) as in the saying [in the Kur xliii. 18], وَجَعَلُوا المَلَائِكَةَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ عِبَادُ الرَّحْمٰنِ اـِنَاثًا [ And they have called the angels, who are the servants of the Compassionate, females ]: (S, K:) or, as some say, the meaning is, have described them as, and pronounced them to be, females; like as one says, جَعَلَ فُلَانٌ زَيْدًا أَعْلَمَ النَّاسِ [ Such a one described Zeyd as, and pronounced him to be, the most learned of men ]: or have held, or believed, them to be females; like as the verb signifies in the saying in the Kur [xvi. 59], وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلّٰهِ البَنَاتِ [ And they hold, or believe, God to have daughters: or this may be rendered and they attribute to God daughters ]. (TA.) You say also, جَعَلْتُ زَيْدًا أَخَاكَ, meaning I asserted Zeyd to be related to thee [ as a brother; or I called Zeyd thy brother ]. (K.) ― -b10- He thought; as in the saying, جَعَلَ البَصْرَةَ بَغْدَادَ [ He thought El-Basrah to be Baghdád ]; (K;) and so in the saying, جَعَلْتُهُ عَبْدًا فَشَتَمْتُهُ [ I thought him to be a slave, and consequently I reviled him ]. (Ham p. 31.) ― -b11- He made known, or plain, or perspicuous; as in the saying [in the Kur xliii. 2, of which one explanation has been given above], اـِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهُ قُرْاآنًا عَرَبِيًّا [ Verily we have made it known, &c., as an Arabic Kur-án ]: (K:) or the meaning is, we have revealed it [ as such ]. (TA.) ― -b12- He exalted, or ennobled; as in the saying [in the Kur ii. 137], جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أُمَّةً وَسَطًا [ We have exalted you, or ennobled you, as a nation conforming to the just mean; or just, or equitable, or good ]: (K:) [or it may be rendered, we have made you a nation &c.:] or, as some say, the meaning is, we have called you, or named you, a nation &c. (TA.) ― -b13- Also, inf. n. جَعْلٌ, He put, or laid, a thing; or put it, or laid it, down. (K.) And جَعَلَ بَعْضَهُ فُوْقَ بَعْضٍ He put, or threw, one part of it upon another. (K.) ― -b14- He inserted a thing into a thing; as in the Kur [ii. 18], يَجْعَلُونَ أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِى اآذَانِهِمْ [ They insert, or put, their fingers into their ears ]. (TA.) ― -b15- He put into the heart, or mind; as in the Kur [lvii. 27], وَجَلْنَا فِى [...]

3 جاعلهُ جاعل جاعله جاعلة , (A, K,) inf. n. مُجَاعَلَةٌ and جِعَالٌ, (TA,) He endeavoured to conciliate him by means of a bribe. (A, K. * [In the CK, رَشّاهُ is erroneously put for رَاشَاهُ.])

4 أَجْعَلَ see جَعَلَ, above, in three places: -A2- and see جَعِلَ, above. -A3- اجعل القِدْرَ He put down the cooking-pot (S, K) from the fire (S) with the piece of rag called جِعَال. (S, K,) -A4- أَجْعَلَتْ and ↓ استجعلت said of a bitch, (S, K,) and of other animals, (K,) of any beasts of prey, (S,) She desired, (S, K, Er-Rághib,) or loved, (K,) copulation: (S, K, Er-Rághib:) metonymically used in this sense. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

6 تجاعلوا الشَّىْءَ ذ They stipulated among themselves to give the thing as wages, pay, or stipend: (K:) from جُعْلٌ. (TA.) You say also, تجاعل النَّاسُ بَيْنَهُمْ عِنْدَ البَعْثِ [ The people stipulated among themselves to give wages, or pay, to such of them as should serve as substitutes, on the occasion of being ordered forth to war ]. (TA.)

8 اجتعل اجتعل : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- Also He took, or received, wages, pay, or a stipend. (Mgh, TA.)

10 اـِسْتَجْعَلَ see 4.

جَعْلٌ جعل Short palm-trees: (S, K:) or shoots, or offsets, of palm-trees, cut off from the mothertrees, or plucked forth from the ground, and planted: or bad palm-trees: or palm-trees that rise beyond the reach of the hand: (K:) n. un. with ة: (S: [in the K, not so correctly, pl. of جَعْلَةٌ:]) and palm-trees such as are called بَعْلٌ [q. v.]. (K.)

جُعْلٌ جعل Wages; pay; a stipend; or a thing that is appointed, or stipulated, to be given to a man for work, or service; (S, Mgh, Msb, * K;) of more general import than أُجْرَةٌ and ثَوَابٌ; (TA;) as also ↓ جِعَالَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and (as some say, Msb) ↓ جَعَالَةٌ (As, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جُعَالَةٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جَعِيلَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جِعَالٌ (K) and ↓ جَعَلٌ: (Har p. 134:) pl. جُعُلٌ (TA) and (of جعيلة or جعالة, Mgh) جَعَائِلُ. (Mgh, TA.) Afterwards, (Mgh,) or ↓ جَعَالَةٌ and ↓ جِعَالَةٌ and ↓ جُعَالَةٌ, (K, TA,) Wages, or pay, or the like, which one gives to a man who goes to war (Mgh, K, TA) as a substitute for the giver, (K, TA,) that he may aid himself thereby to serve in the war: (Mgh:) pl. of the last three words جَعَائِلُ (TA.) And جُعْلٌ, (TA in art. رشو,) or ↓ جَعَالَةٌ, (K,) A bribe. (K, TA.) And ↓ جَعِيلَةٌ الغَرَقِ What is given, or stipulated to be given, to him who dives for goods or for a man drowned. (TA.)

جِعْلٌ جعل and ↓ جَعِلٌ and ↓ مُجْعِلٌ Water having in it many جِعْلَان, pl. of جُعَلٌ: or having in it dead جِعْلَان. (K.) And ↓ أَرْضٌ مُجْعِلَةٌ A land abounding with جِعْلَان. (K.)

جَعَلٌ جعل : see جُعْلٌ.

جَعِلٌ جعل : see جِعْلٌ.

جُعَلٌ جعل [The species of black beetle called cantharus; ] a certain insect (دُوَيْبَّة); (S, K;) a certain black insect, found in moist places, (TA,) that rolls along a little ball [ of dung ] called دُحْرُوجَة [ in which it deposits its eggs ]: (S and K in art. دحرج:) [see also خُنْفَسَاآءُ: it is strangely explained in the Msb as the حِرْبَاآء, which is the male of the أُمُّ حُبَيْن:] pl. جِعْلَانٌ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened thereto, (TA,) A black and ugly and small man: or one who is wont to persist, or to persist obstinately, or to persist in contention or litigation, or to contend or litigate: and (as some say, TA) i. q. رَقِيبٌ [ a watcher, an observer, &c.]. (K, TA.)

جِعَالٌ جعال A piece of rag with which a cooking-pot is put down (S, K) from the fire; (S;) as also ↓ جِعَالَةٌ and ↓ جُعَالَةٌ: (K:) pl. جُعُلٌ (S, TA) and جَعَائِلُ. (TA.) -A2- See also جُعْلٌ.