Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَائِلٌ

Root: جول

Full Definition

جَائِلٌ : see جَوِيلٌ.
2 Also Rainless clouds going round about.
3 And, applied to a [woman's ornament of the kind termed] وِشَاح, and to a camel's belly-girth, Loose; not tight; unsteady; as also جَالٍ . [Hence,] اِمْرَأَةٌ جَائِلَةُ الوِشَاحَيْنِ A woman slender in the waist.


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