رجل

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See also: زحل

Arabic

Root
ر ج ل (r j l)
9 terms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

رَجِلَ (rajila) I (non-past يَرْجَلُ (yarjalu), verbal noun رَجِل (rajil))

  1. to go on foot, to walk
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

رَجَّلَ (rajjala) II (non-past يُرَجِّلُ (yurajjilu), verbal noun تَرْجِيل (tarjīl))

  1. to comb (the hair)
  2. to let down (the hair)
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Originally "walker", attested with the meaning "footsoldier" as Safaitic 𐪇𐪔𐪁 (rgl).

Pronunciation

Noun

رَجُل (rajulm (plural رِجَال (rijāl))

  1. man (adult male human)
    Coordinate term: اِمْرَأَة (imraʔa)
Declension
Descendants
  • Gulf Arabic: ريال (rayyāl, man), ريل (rayil, husband)
  • Hijazi Arabic: رِجَّال (rijjāl)

Noun

رَجْل (rajlm (plural رِجَال (rijāl))

  1. Obsolete form of رَجُل (rajul).

Etymology 4

From Proto-Semitic *rigl-.

Pronunciation

Noun

رِجْل (rijlf (dual رِجْلَانِ (rijlāni), plural أَرْجُل (ʔarjul)) (countable)

  1. (anatomy) an extremity; a limb
    Synonyms: طَرَف (ṭaraf), ذِرَاع (ḏirāʕ), يَد (yad)
    1. (of humans) a leg
      Hyponyms: فَخْذ (faḵḏ, upper leg, thigh), رُكْبَة (rukba, knee), سَاق (sāq, lower leg, shank), عَقِب (ʕaqib, heel), قَدَم (qadam, foot)
    2. (of quadrupeds) a hind leg
      Coordinate term: يَد (yad, foreleg)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants

Noun

رِجْل (rijlm (plural أَرْجَال (ʔarjāl))

  1. swarm (especially, of locusts)
Declension

Noun

رِجْل (rijlm (collective)

  1. common purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
Declension
Alternative forms

Noun

رِجْل (rijlm

  1. going on foot, pedestrian, walking
Declension

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Noun

رَجِل (rajilm (plural رَجْل (rajl) or رِجَال (rijāl) or رَجْلَة (rajla) or رَجْلَى (rajlā) or رُجَّال (rujjāl) or رَجَّالَة (rajjāla) or رُجَّالَى (rujjālā) or رَجَالَى (rajālā) or رُجَالَى (rujālā) or رُجْلَان (rujlān) or أَرَاجِل (ʔarājil) or أَرَاجِيل (ʔarājīl) or أَرْجِلَة (ʔarjila))

  1. verbal noun of رَجِلَ (rajila) (form I)
  2. pedestrian, traveler on foot
  3. neither lank nor crisp, neither scrawny nor shredded, neither svelte nor portly, well on foot due to not having excess mass
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 60:68:
      رَأَيْتُ مُوسَى وَإِذَا رَجُلٌ ضَرْبٌ رَجِلٌ، كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ رِجَالِ شَنُوءَةَ، وَرَأَيْتُ عِيسَى، فَإِذَا هُوَ رَجُلٌ رَبْعَةٌ أَحْمَرُ كَأَنَّمَا خَرَجَ مِنْ دِيمَاسٍ
      raʔaytu mūsā waʔiḏā rajulun ḍarbun rajilun, kaʔannahu min rijāli šanūʔata, waraʔaytu ʕīsā, faʔiḏā huwa rajulun rabʕatun ʔaḥmaru kaʔannamā ḵaraja min dīmāsin
      I saw Moses who was a man neither of a scrawny nor a shredded stature, as though he were of the Šanūʾa men, and I saw Jesus, cobby and red as though he had come out of a bathhouse.
  4. foal which is allowed to suck freely
Declension

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

Noun

رَجْل (rajlm pl

  1. plural of رَاجِل (rājil)
  2. plural of رَجِل (rajil)

References

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ر ج ل
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic رِجْل (rijl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ri.d͡ʒil/, [rɪ.d͡ʒɪl]

Noun

رجل (rijilf (dual رجلین (rijlēn), plural رِجُول (rijūl))

  1. foot
  2. leg
    Synonym: ساق (sāg)

South Levantine Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riʒl/, [ˈrɪ.ʒ(ɪ)l]
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Etymology 1

From Arabic رِجْل (rijl).

Noun

رجل (rijlf (plural رجلین (rijlēn) or أرجل (ʔarjol))

  1. foot
    Synonyms: إجر (ʔijr), (formal) قدم (qadam)
  2. leg
    Synonyms: إجر (ʔijr), ساق (sāʔ)
Usage notes
  • إجر (ʔijr) is more common in urban speech.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic رَجُل (rajul). Doublet of رجّال (rijjāl).

Noun

رجل (rajolm (plural رجال (rjāl, rijāl))

  1. (formal) man
    Synonyms: رجّال (rijjāl), زلمة (zalame)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَجُل (rajul).

Pronunciation

Noun

رَجُل (rajulm (Hindi spelling रजुल)

  1. man
    Synonym: مرد (mard)

References

  • رجل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • رجل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.