مِجْوَلٌ
Root: جول
Full Definition
مِجْوَلٌ
A certain garment for women, doubled, and sewed together at one of its two sides, and having an opening made to it at the neck and bosom; in which a woman goes about: or for a young girl; the دِرْع being for a woman: a small garment in which a girl goes about: or a garment which a girl wears before she is made to keep herself behind, or within, the curtain, and in which she goes about: accord. to IAar, i. q.
صُدْرَةٌ. Imra-el-Keys says,
2 A woman's anklet.
3 An amulet, a phylactery, or charm of the kind termed عُوذَة.
4 A crescent of silver in the middle of the necklace termed قِلَادَة.
5 Silver [itself].
6 A good, or sound, دِرْهَم [or silver coin].
7 A shield; sometimes used in this sense; as also جَالٌ .
8 A large wooden bowl.
9 A white ثَوْب [or piece of cloth] that is put upon the hand of him to whom the players at the game called المَيْسِر commit the arrows [to be shuffled and distributed, in order that he may not be able to distinguish them by the feel,] when they have collected themselves. [For the same purpose, a piece of thin skin was also used: see رِبَابَةٌ.]
def.2 A pool of water left by a torrent; because the water goes round about in it.
def.3 A wild ass.
[At the like of her the staid would fixedly gaze with tenderness of desire, when she has become of erect and justly-proportioned stature, between such as wears a woman's shirt and such as wears a young girl's garment].إِلَى مِثْلِهَايَرْنُو الحَلِيمُ صَبَابَةً إِذَا مَا ٱسْبَكَرَّتْ بَيْنَ دِرْعٍ وَمِجْوَلِ
2 A woman's anklet.
3 An amulet, a phylactery, or charm of the kind termed عُوذَة.
4 A crescent of silver in the middle of the necklace termed قِلَادَة.
5 Silver [itself].
6 A good, or sound, دِرْهَم [or silver coin].
7 A shield; sometimes used in this sense; as also جَالٌ .
8 A large wooden bowl.
9 A white ثَوْب [or piece of cloth] that is put upon the hand of him to whom the players at the game called المَيْسِر commit the arrows [to be shuffled and distributed, in order that he may not be able to distinguish them by the feel,] when they have collected themselves. [For the same purpose, a piece of thin skin was also used: see رِبَابَةٌ.]
def.2 A pool of water left by a torrent; because the water goes round about in it.
def.3 A wild ass.
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