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ج-م-ل

Jim-Mim-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Jim-Mim-Lam (ج-م-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: jamīlun (beautiful / handsome), jamal (camel).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 11 times in 11 verses, across 9 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:40. The form جَمِيلٌ (beautiful / handsome) accounts for 7 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics, Nature Weather

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
جَمِيلٌ
jamīlun
beautiful / handsomeadjective, A17×Describing Things - Core Adjectives
جَمَل
jamal
camelnoun, B11×Environmental Concepts

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ عَنْهَا لَا تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَٰبُ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَلَا يَدْخُلُونَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ حَتَّىٰ يَلِجَ ٱلْجَمَلُ فِى سَمِّ ٱلْخِيَاطِ ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

Lo! they who deny Our revelations and scorn them, for them the gates of heaven will nor be opened not will they enter the Garden until the camel goeth through the needle's eye. Thus do We requite the guilty.

Quran 7:40
وَجَآءُو عَلَىٰ قَمِيصِهِۦ بِدَمٍ كَذِبٍ ۚ قَالَ بَلْ سَوَّلَتْ لَكُمْ أَنفُسُكُمْ أَمْرًا ۖ فَصَبْرٌ جَمِيلٌ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَىٰ مَا تَصِفُونَ

And they came with false blood on his shirt. He said: Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course is) comely patience. And Allah it is Whose help is to be sought in that (predicament) which ye describe.

Quran 12:18
وَلَكُمْ فِيهَا جَمَالٌ حِينَ تُرِيحُونَ وَحِينَ تَسْرَحُونَ

And wherein is beauty for you, when ye bring them home, and when ye take them out to pasture.

Quran 16:6

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A1adjective
جَمِيلٌ
jamīlun

beautiful / handsome

Example
الطَّقْسُ جَمِيلٌ الْيَوْمَ.
aṭ-ṭaqsu jamīlun al-yawma.
The weather is beautiful today.
Grammar

Feminine: jamīla (جَمِيلَةٌ). Root j-m-l also gives: jamal (camel) and jamāl (beauty).

B1noun
جَمَل
jamal

camel

Example
الجَمَلُ يُسَمّى سَفينَةَ الصَّحراء.
al-jamalu yusammā safīnata ṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ.
The camel is called the ship of the desert.

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