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جُعَلٌ جعل [The species of black beetle called cantharus;] a certain insect (دُوَيْبَّة); (S, K;) a certain black insect, found in moist places, (TA,) that rolls along a little ball [of dung] called دُحْرُوجَة [in which it deposits its eggs]: (S and K in art. دحرج:) [see also خُنْفَسَآءُ: it is strangely explained in the Msb as the حِرْبَآء, which is the male of the أُمُّ حُبَيْن:] pl. جِعْلَانٌ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened thereto, (TA,) A black and ugly and small man: or one who is wont to persist, or to persist obstinately, or to persist in contention or litigation, or to contend or litigate: and (as some say, TA) i. q. رَقِيبٌ [a watcher, an observer, &c.]. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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