جَلَآءٌ
Root: جلو
Full Definition
جَلَآءٌ
A thing, an affair, or a case, that is apparent, manifest, plain, or evident.
2 And Acknowledgment, or confession: so in the saying of Zuheyr:
3 أَقَمْتُ عِنْدَهُ جَلَآءَيَوْمِى, or جَلَآءَ يَوْمٍ, [I remained with him, or at his abode,] during the whiteness of my, or a, day.
def.2 See also the next paragraph.
2 And Acknowledgment, or confession: so in the saying of Zuheyr:
[For verily the means of deciding the truth are three: an oath, and incongruity of circumstances, and acknowledgment, or confession]: but Az writes the last word , with kesr to the ج, as meaning an evidence, or a proof, and witnesses; from مُجَالَاةٌ [Verbal.Noun of 3, q. v.].فَإِنَّ الحَقَّ مَقْطَعُهُ ثَلَاثٌ يَمِينٌ أَوْ نِفَارٌ أَوْ جَلَآءٌ
3 أَقَمْتُ عِنْدَهُ جَلَآءَيَوْمِى, or جَلَآءَ يَوْمٍ, [I remained with him, or at his abode,] during the whiteness of my, or a, day.
def.2 See also the next paragraph.
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