جمل

See also: حمل, ج م ل, and ح م ل

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ج م ل (j-m-l).

Verb

جَمَلَ (jamala) I, non-past يَجْمُلُ‎ (yajmulu)

  1. to sum up, to summarize
Conjugation

Verb

جَمُلَ (jamula) I, non-past يَجْمُلُ‎ (yajmulu)

  1. to be beautiful, to be pretty, to be graceful
  2. to be handsome, to be comely
  3. to be appropriate, to be proper, to be suitable
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Causative of جَمُلَ (jamula).

Verb

جَمَّلَ (jammala) II, non-past يُجَمِّلُ‎ (yujammilu)

  1. to make beautiful, to beautify, to embellish, to adorn
Conjugation

Noun

جَمْل (jaml) m

  1. verbal noun of جَمَلَ (jamala) (form I)
Declension

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒu.mal/
  • (Egypt) IPA(key): /ˈɡomɛl/

Etymology

Inflected form.

Noun

جُمَل (jumal) f pl

  1. plural of جُمْلَة (jumla)

Etymology 6

جَمَلٌ

From Proto-Semitic *gamal-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒa.mal/
  • (Egypt) IPA(key): /ˈɡæmɛl/

Noun

جَمَل (jamal) m (plural جِمَال (jimāl), feminine نَاقَة (nāqa))

  1. male camel
  2. ellipsis of جَمَل الْيَهُود (jamal al-yahūd, chameleon; mantis)
Declension
See also
  • جَمَّال (jammāl)
  • اِسْتَنْوَقَ الْجَمَلُ (istanwaqa l-jamalu)
Further reading
  • Singer, Hans-Rudolf (1977), “Fortleben alten Wortgutes in arabischen Beduinen-Mundarten. II: Bezeichnungen für Kameltrupps [Survival of old wordstock in Arabic bedouin dialects. II. Terms for camel flocks.]”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 127, page 254–257
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