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جُلْجُلَانٌ جلجل جلجلان What is جَلِيل [app. meaning great in estimation] of a thing. (Ibn-' Abbád, TA.) -A2- Also The fruit of the كُزْبُرَة [or coriander] : (S, Mgh, K:) and, (Mgh,) accord, to Abu-1-Ghowth, (S,) sesame, or sesamum, (S, Z, Mgh, TA,) in its husks, before it is reaped: (S:) or it signifies also the grain of sesame or sesamum. (K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The heart's core (حَبَّةُ القَلْبِ). (S, Z, K, TA.) You say, أَصَبْتُ جُلْجُلَانَ قَلبِهِ (tropical:) [I hit his heart's core]. (S.) And اِسْتَقَرَّ ذٰلِكَ فِى جُلْجُلَانَ قَلْبِهِ (tropical:) [That rested, or remained, in his heart's core]. (Z, TA.) And كَلَامٌ خَرَجَ مِنْ جُلْجُلَانِ القَلْبِ إِِلَى قِمَعِ الأُذُنِ (tropical:) [Speech that came forth from the core of the heart to the meatus of the ear]. (Z, TA.)

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