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جُلٌّ

Root: جل

Full Definition

جُلٌّ The greater, main, principal, or chief, part of a thing; the most thereof; the main, gross, mass, or bulk, of it; as also جُلَالٌ . You say, أَخَذَ جُلَّهُ and [He took the greater part of it].

def.2 A horse-cloth, or covering of a horse or similar beast, for protection from the cold; as also جَلٌّ : [in Persian جَلْ:] pl. [of mult.] جِلَالٌ and [of pauc.] أَجْلَالٌ, and أَجِلَّةٌ is pl. of جِلَالٌ.
2 The cover of, or a thing with which one covers, a book, or volume; which latter is hence called مَجَلَّةٌ .

def.3 The place of the pitching and constructing of a tent or house.

def.4 Also, and جَلٌّ , The rose, the white and the red and the yellow; plentiful in the countries of the Arabs, both cultivated and wild: a Persian word, arabicized; from كُلْ: and the jasmine: n. un. with ة.

def.5 See also جِلٌّ:

def.6 and جَلَلٌ.
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