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جعل

جعل

Arabic

Pronunciation

Verb

جَعَلَ (jaʿala) I, non-past يَجْعَلُ‎ (yajʿalu)

  1. to make, to put, to place, to lay
  2. to effect, to bring about, to make, to cause
    الْفَقْرُ وَعَدَمُ وُجُودِ ثِيَابٍ جَدِيدَةٍ يَجْعَلَانِ الْمَرْءَ بَائِسًا جِدًّا.
    al-faqru waʿadamu wujūdi ṯiyābin jadīdatin yajʿalāni l-marʾa bāʾisan jiddan.
    Poverty and the lack of new clothes make one very miserable.
  3. to fix, to set
  4. to begin to (followed by a non-past verb)
    جَعَلْتُ أَبْكِي.jaʿaltu ʾabkī.I began to cry
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

جَعْل (jaʿl) m

  1. verbal noun of جَعَلَ (jaʿala) (form I)
Declension