جعل

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ج ع ل‎ (j-ʿ-l).

Pronunciation

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Verb

جَعَلَ • (jaʿala) I, non-past يَجْعَلُ‎‎ (yajʿalu)

  1. (transitive) to make: to create
  2. (transitive) to put, to place, to lay
  3. (ditransitive) to affect, to bring about, to make, to cause
    ‏الْفَقْرُ وَعَدَمُ وُجُودِ ثِيَابٍ جَدِيدَةٍ يَجْعَلَانِ الْمَرْءَ بَائِسًا جِدًّا.‎‎
    al-faqru waʿadamu wujūdi ṯiyābin jadīdatin yajʿalāni l-marʾa bāʾisan jiddan.
    Poverty and the lack of new clothes make one very miserable.
  4. to fix, to set
  5. to begin to (followed by a non-past verb)
    ‏جَعَلْتُ أَبْكِي.‎‎ ― jaʿaltu ʾabkī. ― I began to cry
Conjugation

Noun

جَعْل • (jaʿl) m

  1. verbal noun of جَعَلَ (jaʿala) (form I)
Declension
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