See also: زحل

Arabic edit

Root
ر ج ل (r-j-l)

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

رَجِلَ (rajila) I, non-past يَرْجَلُ‎ (yarjalu)

  1. to go on foot, to walk
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

رَجَّلَ (rajjala) II, non-past يُرَجِّلُ‎ (yurajjilu)

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

Etymology 3 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

رَجُل (rajulm (plural رِجَال (rijāl))

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

Noun edit

رَجْل (rajlm (plural رِجَال (rijāl))

  1. Obsolete form of رَجُل (rajul).

Etymology 4 edit

From Proto-Semitic *rigl-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit

Noun edit

رِجْل (rijlm (plural أَرْجَال (ʔarjāl))

  1. swarm (especially, of locusts)
Declension edit

Noun edit

رِجْل (rijlm (collective)

  1. common purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

رِجْل (rijlm

  1. going on foot, pedestrian, walking
Declension edit

Etymology 5 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Etymology 6 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

رَجْل (rajlm pl

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

References edit

Hijazi Arabic edit

Root
ر ج ل
2 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic رِجْل (rijl).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ri.d͡ʒil/, [rɪ.d͡ʒɪl]

Noun edit

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

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

South Levantine Arabic edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic رِجْل (rijl).

Noun edit

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 edit
  • إجر (ʔijr) is more common in urban speech.

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

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

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

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic رَجُل (rajul).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

رَجُل (rajulm (Hindi spelling रजुल)

  1. man
    Synonym: مرد (mard)

References edit

  • 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.