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جَبَلٌ جبل [A mountain: or] any of the mountains (أَوْتَاد [lit. “pegs,” or “stakes,” a term applied to the mountains because they are supposed to make the earth firm, or fast,]) of the earth, that is great and long; (Mgh, K;) or, as some say, only such as is long; (Msb;) such as is isolated being called أَكَمَةٌ, or قُنَّةٌ: (K:) [and also applied to a rocky tract; any rocky elevation, however little elevated:] and sometimes it means stone; [or rock;] such, for instance, as is reached by the digger: and hence it is applied to Es-Safà and El-Marweh: (Mgh:) pl. [of mult.] جِبَالٌ (S, Msb, K) and (of pauc., Msb) أَجْبُلٌ (Msb, K) and أَجْبَالٌ. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A man who does not remove from his place: you say of such a one, هُوَ جَبَلٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A niggard. (K, TA.) [See 4.] ― -b4- (tropical:) The lord, or chief, of a people, or company of men: and their learned man. (Fr, K, TA.) ― -b5- ابْنَةُ الجَبَل (assumed tropical:) The serpent: (K:) because it keeps to the جَبَل. (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) Calamity, or misfortune. (K.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) The bow that is made from the tree called نَبْع; (K, TA;) because this is one of the trees of the جَبَل. (TA.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) The echo. (Har p. 472.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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