جَمَالٌ

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جَمَالٌ Verbal.Noun of جَمُلَ: [when used as a simple subst., meaning] Beauty, goodliness, comeliness, or pleasingness, syn. حُسْنٌ, in person, and goodness in action, or actions, or behaviour, or also, in moral character: or elegance, or prettiness; i. e., delicacy, or minuteness, of beauty: or much goodness, or beauty or goodliness or comeliness, in the mind, or in the person, or in the actions or behaviour; and also, much goodness that is communicated from its possessor to another: accord. to As, [when relating to the person,] حُسْنٌ is in the eyes; and جَمَالٌ, in the nose. (TA in art. حسن.) [See also جَمِيلٌ.] One says, جَمَالَكَ أَنْ لَا تَفْعَلَ كَذَا, or أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا, meaning, Keep to that which is most comely for thee to do, and do not thus.
2 Also Patience. (Mgh in art. خص.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, جَمَالَكَ أَيُّهَا القَلْبُ القَرِيحُ سَتَلْقَى مَنْ تُحِبُّ فَتَسْتَرِيحُ (S, * TA, the former of which cites only the first hemistich, and the latter substitutes الجَرِيحُ for its syn. القَرِيحُ,) meaning, [Keep thy patience, O thou wounded heart: thou wilt find whom thou lovest, and be at rest: or] keep to thy patience, or thy constraint of thyself to be patient, and thy shrinking from what is foul, and be not impatient in an evil manner.

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