جَالٍ
Root: جلو
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جَالٍ
Going forth, or emigrating, from his country, or town: [like جَالٌّ:] and so جَالِيَةٌ, applied to a company of people; [as also جَالَّةٌ;] or to people who have gone forth, or emigrated, from their homes; and particularly to those tributaries, namely, certain Jews, whom 'Omar expelled from the country of the Arabs; and afterwards, to such as have the poll-tax imposed upon them, of the people of the Bible, and of the Magians, though not having emigrated from their homes; [i. e.] the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government; because they were expelled by 'Omar from Arabia; the word being fem. because denoting a جَمَاعَة; and its pl. is جَوَالٍ.
2 Hence, جَالِيَةٌ [as a subst.] is applied to The poll-tax that is exacted from the persons last mentioned above; as also جَالَّةٌ: first, in this sense, applied to that which was exacted from the people expelled from Arabia by 'Omar. You say, اُسْتُعْمِلَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى الجَالِيَةِ [Such a one was employed as collector of the poll-tax].
def.2 See also جَائِلٌ, in art. جول.
2 Hence, جَالِيَةٌ [as a subst.] is applied to The poll-tax that is exacted from the persons last mentioned above; as also جَالَّةٌ: first, in this sense, applied to that which was exacted from the people expelled from Arabia by 'Omar. You say, اُسْتُعْمِلَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى الجَالِيَةِ [Such a one was employed as collector of the poll-tax].
def.2 See also جَائِلٌ, in art. جول.
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