Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَمَعَ

Root: جمع

Form: 1

Full Definition

جَمَعَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun جَمْعٌ, He collected; brought, or gathered, together; gathered up; assembled; congregated; mustered; drew together; or contracted; a thing; so that the several parts or portions became near together; or a thing in a scattered, or dispersed, state; and a number of men; as also جمّع ; [or this has only an intensive signification;] and اجمع . [See also the Verbal.Noun, جَمْعٌ, below; and] see 2; and 10.
2 [جَمَعَ بَيْنَهُمَا He brought them two together, into a state of union, after separation; and particularly, reconciled them; conciliated them: and he, or it, united, connected, or formed a connexion between, them two: see 3 in art. دنو.]
3 جَمَعَ عَلَيْهِ ثِيَابَهُ He put on, or attired himself with, his clothes.
4 جَمَعَتِ الجَارِيَةُ The girl put on the دِرْع and the خِمَار and the مِلْحَفَة; i. e., became a young woman; became full-grown.
5 مَا جَمَعْتُ بِٱمْرَأَةٍ قَطُّ, and عَنِ ٱمْرَأَةٍ, I have never gone in to a woman; or I have never had a woman conducted to me as my bride.
6 فَٱجْمَعُوا كَيْدَكُمْ, and فَجَمَعَ كَيْدَهُ: see 4.
7 جَمَعَ أَمْرَهُ: see 4.
8 [جَمَعَ also signifies He composed, arranged, or settled, a thing, or an affair; as in the phrase جَمَعَ ٱللّٰهُ شَمْلَهُ: see art. شمل.
9 Also It comprised, comprehended, or contained.]
10 Also He pluralized a word; made it to have a plural, or plurals.


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