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جَمَالٌ جمال جمل inf. n. of جَمُلَ: (S, Mgh, Msb:) [when used as a simple subst., meaning] Beauty, goodliness, comeliness, or pleasingness, syn. حُسْنٌ, (S, M, Mgh, * K,) in person, (M, K,) and goodness in action, or actions, or behaviour, (M, TA,) or also, in moral character: (K:) or elegance, or prettiness; i. e., delicacy, or minuteness, of beauty: (Sb, Msb:) or much goodness, or beauty or goodliness or comeliness, in the mind, or in the person, or in the actions or behaviour; and also, much goodness that is communicated from its possessor to another: (Er-Rághib, TA:) accord. to As, [when relating to the person,] حُسْنٌ is in the eyes; and جَمَالٌ, in the nose. (TA in art. حسن.) [See also جَمِيلٌ.] One says, جَمَالَكَ أَنْ لَا تَفْعَلَ كَذَا, (ISd, K,) or أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا, (IDrd, TA,) meaning, Keep to that which is most comely for thee to do, and do not thus. (IDrd, ISd, K. [But see what follows.]) ― -b2- Also Patience. (Mgh in art. خص.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, “ جَمَالَكَ أَيُّهَا القَلْبُ القَرِيحُ
سَتَلْقَى مَنْ تُحِبُّ فَتَسْتَرِيحُ
” (S, * TA, the former of which cites only the first hemistich, and the latter substitutes الجَرِيحُ for its syn. القَرِيحُ,) meaning, [Keep thy patience, O thou wounded heart: thou wilt find whom thou lovest, and be at rest: or] keep to thy patience, or thy constraint of thyself to be patient, and thy shrinking from what is foul, and be not impatient in an evil manner. (S, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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