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جَزْلٌ جزل Large and dry firewood: (S:) or dry firewood: (K:) or thick, large firewood. (Msb, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Much of a thing; as also ↓ جَزِيلٌ : (K:) or the latter, great, or large; [and so the former:] you say عَطَآءٌ جَزْلٌ and ↓جَزِيلٌ (tropical:) [a great, or large, gift]: (S, TA:*) and ↓ثَوَابٌ جَزِيلٌ (tropical:) [a great, or large, recompense]: (TA:) pl. جِزَالٌ; (S, K;) either of the former or of the latter. (TA.) And [the fem.] جَزْلَةٌ (tropical:) [A woman] large in the posteriors. (K, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Generous; munificent. (K, TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) Intelligent; firm, or sound, in judgment. (K, TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ جَزْلُ الرَّأْىِ (tropical:) [Such a one is firm, or sound, in judgment]. (S, Msb.) And when this is said to you, and you desire to deny it, say, الرَّأْىِ ↓ بَلْ جَزِلُ (tropical:) Nay, unsound in judgment; from جَزَلٌ, [inf. n. of جَزِلَ,] relating to a gall, or sore, in the withers [of a camel]. (A, TA.) You say also اِمْرَأَةٌ جَزْلَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A woman possessing judgment: (S:) or intelligent; firm, or sound, in judgment; as also ↓جَزْلَآءُ: (K:) [but] IDrd says that جزالآء, [app. a mistranscription for جَزْلَآءُ,] as syn. with جَزْلَةٌ, is not of established authority. (TA.) ― -b5- Applied to a word, or an expression, (S, K, &c.,) (tropical:) Strong, (PS,) sound, correct; (PS, TK;) contr. of رَكِيكٌ (S, K.) And applied to language, (assumed tropical:) Chaste, clear, or eloquent, and comprehensive. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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