← Back to Lisan al-Arab

جيم

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the Arabic letter 'jīm' (ج). It details its phonetic classification as a voiced consonant and discusses its grammatical gender, which can be either feminine or masculine. The root also includes a derived verb related to the act of writing the letter.

Derived headwords

الجيمnoun
  1. 1.
    the letter Jīmboth

    The third letter of the Arabic alphabet, pronounced 'j'.

جيمتverb
  1. 1.
    to write 'jīm'modern

    To write the Arabic letter 'jīm' (ج).

جيماnoun
  1. 1.
    a writing of 'jīm'modern

    The act or instance of writing the letter 'jīm'.

Parallel reading

الجيم: حرف هجاء، وهو حرف مجهور
The Jīm: a letter of the alphabet, and it is a voiced consonant.
التهذيب: الجيم من الحروف التي تؤنث ويجوز تذكيرها
Al-Tadhīb: The Jīm is among the letters that are feminine, and it is permissible to consider it masculine.
وقد جيمت جيما إذا كتبتها
And one has written a Jīm if one has written it.