اَلْجِيلُ، بِالْكَسْرِ: الصِّنْفُ مِنْ نَاسٍ فَالتُّرْكُ جِيلٌ، وَالرُّومُ جِيلٌ، وَالصِّينُ جِيلٌ
Al-jīl, with a kasra: the class of people, so the Turks are a jīl, and the Romans are a jīl, and the Chinese are a jīl.
وَالْجَمْعُ: أَجْيَالٌ وَجَيْلَانٌ
And the plural is: ajyāl and jaylān.
جَيْلٌ بِلَا لَامٍ: ةٌ عَلَى دِجْلَةَ أَسْفَلَ بَغْدَادَ مُعَرَّبٌ كَيْلٌ
Jīl without the 'al-': a town on the Tigris below Baghdad, a Persian loanword 'Kīl'.
وَقَدْ نُسِبَ إِلَيْهَا صَالِحُ بْنُ شَافِعٍ - الْجِيلِيُّ
And Sālih ibn Shāfi' - al-Jīlī - was attributed to it.
وَزِيَادُ بْنُ جَيْلٍ الْأَبْنَاوِيُّ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ، رَوَى عَنْهُ هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ
And Ziyād ibn Jayl al-Abnāwī al-Ṣan'ānī, Hishām ibn Yūsuf narrated from him.
وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ جَيْلٍ كُوفِيٌّ: مُحَدِّثَانِ
And Yazīd ibn Jayl, a Kufan: two traditionists.
وَفَاتَهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي نَصْرِ بْنِ جَيْلٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ، مُتَأَخِّرٌ مُقْرِئٌ، رَوَى عَنِ ابْنِ كُلَيْبٍ وَغَيْرِهِ
And Muhammad ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Jayl al-Hamdānī, a late reciter, narrated from Ibn Kulayb and others, passed away.
وَاخْتُلِفَ فِي جَدِّ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ خَالِدِ بْنِ جَيْلٍ
And there was disagreement about the grandfather of 'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn Jayl.
وَجَيْلَانُ بِالْفَتْحِ: حَيٌّ مِنْ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ نَقَلَهُ الصَّاغَانِيُّ
And Jaylān, with a fatḥa: a tribe from 'Abd al-Qays, as transmitted by al-Ṣāghānī.
أَطَافَتْ بِهِ جَيْلَانُ عِنْدَ قَطَاعِهِ ... وَرَدَّتْ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ حَتَّى تَحَيَّرَا
Jaylān surrounded him at his crossing... and they returned the water to him until he was bewildered.
وَجَيْلَانُ: مِخْلَافٌ بِالْيَمَنِ شِقٌّ مِنْهُ لِلطَّاعَةِ، وَشِقٌّ مِنْهُ لِلْعِصْيَانِ، نَقَلَهُ الصَّاغَانِيُّ
And Jaylān: a region in Yemen, a part of it for obedience, and a part of it for disobedience, as transmitted by al-Ṣāghānī.
وَالْجَيْلَانُ مِنَ الْحَصَى: مَا أَجَالَتْهُ الرِّيحُ
And al-Jaylān of pebbles: what the wind has rolled.
وَجَيْلَانُ بِالْكَسْرِ: إِقْلِيمٌ بِالْعَجَمِ، مُعَرَّبٌ كَيْلَانَ بِالْإِمَالَةِ، وَإِلَيْهِ نِسْبَةُ الْقُطْبِ سِيدِي عَبْدِ الْقَادِرِ - الْجَيْلَانِيِّ
And Jaylān, with a kasra: a province in Persia, a Persianized form of Kīlān with imāla, and to it is attributed the Qutb, Sīdī 'Abd al-Qādir - al-Jīlānī.
وَكَانَ عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ مِنْهُمْ حَافِظًا ثِقَةً
And 'Abd al-Razzāq among them was a حافظ (ḥāfiẓ - memorizer) and ثقة (thiqah - trustworthy).
وَابْنُهُ نَصْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ كَانَ عَالِيَ الْإِسْنَادِ
And his son Naṣr ibn 'Abd al-Razzāq had a high isnād (chain of narration).
وَجَيْلَانُ: قَوْمٌ رَتَّبَهُمْ كِسْرَى بِالْبَحْرَيْنِ لِخَرْصِ النَّخْلِ، أَوْ لِمِهْنَةٍ مَا، نَقَلَهُ ابْنُ سِيدَهْ وَالصَّاغَانِيُّ، وَضَبَطَاهُ بِالْفَتْحِ
And Jaylān: a people whom Khosrow stationed in Bahrain for estimating palm yields, or for some task, as transmitted by Ibn Sīdah and al-Ṣāghānī, and they both vocalized it with a fatḥa.
وَجَيْلَانُ: اسْمُ أَبِي الْجَلْدِ بْنِ فَرْوَةَ الْأَسَدِيِّ، بَصْرِيٌّ تَابِعِيٌّ، رَوَى عَنْهُ أَبُو عِمْرَانَ الْجُونِيُّ، وَغَيْرُهُ
And Jaylān: the name of Abū al-Jald ibn Furwah al-Asadī, a Basran Tabi'i, Abū 'Imrān al-Jūnī and others narrated from him.
وَقَالَ ابْنُ خَلِّكَانَ: جَيْلٌ: رَجُلٌ كَانَ أَخَا دِيَلَمَ، نُسِبَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ قَابُوسُ بْنُ أَبِي طَاهِرٍ وَشَمْكِيرُ الْجِيلِيُّ، أَمِيرُ جُرْجَانَ
And Ibn Khallikān said: Jayl: a man who was the brother of Daylam, to whom Abū al-Ḥasan Qābūs ibn Abī Ṭāhir and Shamkīr al-Jīlī, the emir of Jurjan, were attributed.