Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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جله جلهق جلهم


جُلَاهِقٌ / جُلَاهِقَةٌ

جُلَاهِقٌ Bullets, syn. بُنْدُقٌ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) or rounded things, (En-Naḍr, TA,) made of clay, (En-Naḍr, Mṣb, TA,) which one shoots [from a cross-bow]: (Ḳ:) n. un. with ة {جُلَاهِقَةٌ}: (En-Naḍr, Mṣb, TA:) a Persian word, arabicized; (Mṣb;) in Persian جُلَهْ, meaning “a ball of thread;” pl. جُلَهَا; applied also to “a weaver;” (Ṣ Ḳ;) i. e., جلها is so applied. (TA.) Hence, قَوْسُ الجُلَاهِقِ [The cross-bow for shooting bullets]. (Ṣ, Mṣb.)


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