minjalī
sickle-shaped, falciform
مِنْجَلِيّ
Word
Adjective · pattern مِفْعَلِيّRoot
ن ج لIn the library
يّ أخو الذّكاء المُنجَلي
The Maqamat of al-Hariri, page 85 →From the same root
- نَجَلَbeget, sire
- نَجْلson, scion
- نَجِيلcouch grass, quitch
- مِنْجَلscythe, sickle
- إِنْجِيلgospel
- مَنْجَلَةvise
Lane's Lexicon
Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 3 entries-
طَعْنَةٌ نَجْلَآءُ A wide wound with a spear or the like
A wide wound with a spear or the like. (TA.) See an ex. in a verse cited voce رُبَّ. ― -b2- عَيْنٌ نَجْلَآءُ A wide eye; pl. عُيُونٌ نُجْلٌ. (TA.) See a verse in art. فرغ (conj. 4). -
مِنْجَلٌ A reaping-hook
A reaping-hook. (Mgh; and S, K, voce مِحْصَدٌ.) It has a toothed, or serrated, edge: (A, art. حز; and K, art. اشر:) and is sometimes plain. (K, voce مِحَشٌّ, and M and L, voce سِنٌّ.) See مِخْلَبٌ and دَرَهْرَهَةٌ. ― -b2- [A reaping-hook: or a pruning-hook: sometimes signifying the latter:] an iron implement, having teeth, with which seed-produce is cut: or one with which the wood, or branch, is cut off from the tree, and cast down, or away. (TA.) -
نَجيلٌ Open entry
: see طَحْمَآءُ.
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