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جَبْرَئِيلُ ذ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) imperfectly decl., because having the quality of a proper name and that of a foreign word, or being a compound regarded as forming a single word, as some say, (TA,) originally Syriac, or Hebrew, [?,] (Esh-Shiháb [El-Khafájee],) A proper name of an angel; (TA;) [Gabriel: and also, of a man:] signifying the servant of God: (A 'Obeyd, S, Msb, K, TA:) or (rather, TA) the man of God: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) being said to be composed of جَبْرٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) signifying “ servant, ” or “ slave, ” (Msb, TA,) or rather “ man, ” (TA,) and إِِيلٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) signifying “ God: ” (Msb, TA:) or both together signify the servant of the Compassionate: or the servant of the Mighty, or Glorious: (TA:) this form of the word is of the dialects of Keys and Temeem: (TA:) and there are other dial. vars.; namely, ↓ جَبْرَيِيلُ , without ' , and ↓ جَبْرَائِيلُ , (S, K,) and ↓ جَبْرَايِيلُ , and ↓ جَبْرَئِلُ , and ↓ جَبْرَائِيلُ , (K,) and ↓ جَبْرَايِيلُ , (Es-Suyootee, TA,) and ↓ جَبْرَائِلُ , (K,) and ↓ جَبْرَايِلُ , (Es-Suyootee, TA,) and ↓ جِبْرِيلُ , (S, Msb, K, which is the form most known and most chaste, and is of the dial. of El-Hijáz, TA,) and ↓ جَبْرِيلُ , (Msb, K, reckoned of weak authority by Fr, because the measure فَعِّيل [or فَعْلِيل] does not exist in the language, for as to سَمْوِيل, mentioned by Esh-Shiháb as against the objection of Fr, it is of the measure فَعْوِيل, MF, TA,) and ↓ جَبْرَيْلُ , and ↓ جَبْرَالُ , and ↓ جِبْرَالُ , (K,) and ↓ جِبْرِينُ , and ↓ جَبْرِينُ , (S, K,) and ↓ جَبْرَائِينُ . (Es-Suyootee, MF.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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