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جُعْلٌ جعل Wages; pay; a stipend; or a thing that is appointed, or stipulated, to be given to a man for work, or service; (S, Mgh, Msb, * K;) of more general import than أُجْرَةٌ and ثَوَابٌ; (TA;) as also ↓ جِعَالَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and (as some say, Msb) ↓ جَعَالَةٌ (As, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جُعَالَةٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جَعِيلَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جِعَالٌ (K) and ↓ جَعَلٌ : (Har p. 134:) pl. جُعُلٌ (TA) and (of جعيلة or جعالة, Mgh) جَعَائِلُ. (Mgh, TA.) Afterwards, (Mgh,) or ↓ جَعَالَةٌ and ↓ جِعَالَةٌ and ↓ جُعَالَةٌ , (K, TA,) Wages, or pay, or the like, which one gives to a man who goes to war (Mgh, K, TA) as a substitute for the giver, (K, TA,) that he may aid himself thereby to serve in the war: (Mgh:) pl. of the last three words جَعَائِلُ (TA.) And جُعْلٌ, (TA in art. رشو,) or ↓ جَعَالَةٌ , (K,) A bribe. (K, TA.) And ↓ جَعِيلَةٌ الغَرَقِ What is given, or stipulated to be given, to him who dives for goods or for a man drowned. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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