جُمَّلٌ
Root: جمل
Full Definition
جُمَّلٌ
and
جُمَلٌ and
جُمْلٌ and
جُمُلٌ and
جَمَلٌ [A cable;] the rope of a ship, i. e., the thick rope thereof, that is also called
قَلْسٌ, consisting of [a number of] ropes put together: and
also signifies [the same; or] a thick rope, because consisting of many strands put together; pl. جُمَالَاتٌ; which Mujáhid explains as meaning the ropes of bridges; but I 'Ab, as the ropes of ships, put together so as to be like the waists of men [in thickness]. In all the forms mentioned above, except the last (جمالة), the word is read in the phrase [in the Kur vii. 38], حَتَّى يَلِجَ الجُمَّلُ فِى سَمِّ الخِيَاطِ [Until the cable shall enter into the eye of the needle]: I 'Ab reads الجُمَّلُ, and so do 'Alee and many others:
جُمْلٌ is pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of جُمْلَةٌ, a strand of a thick rope; or, accord. to IJ, pl. of جَمَلٌ [q. v.]: the first is explained by Fr as meaning ropes put together; but Aboo-Tálib thinks that he meant
جُمَلٌ , without tesh-deed.
def.2 حِسَابُ الجُمَّلِ, thought by IDrd to be not Arabic, and , but IDrd doubts its correctness, The calculation by means of the letters د ج ب ا, &c.
def.2 حِسَابُ الجُمَّلِ, thought by IDrd to be not Arabic, and , but IDrd doubts its correctness, The calculation by means of the letters د ج ب ا, &c.
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