جَاهِلٌ
1.
and
جَهُولٌ, [but the latter has an intensive signification,] Ignorant: (Msb, K:) and silly, or foolish, in conduct: and wrong in conduct: (Msb:) [characterized by
جَهْل
in any of the senses assigned to this word above:] plural جُهَّالٌ (K, KL) and جُهْلٌ and جُهُلٌ and جُهَّلٌ and جُهَلَاءُ: (K:) see جَاهِلِىٌّ. The former epithet is mostly used in dispraise: but sometimes not in dispraise; as in the saying [in the Qur'an, 2:274, يَجْسِبُهُمُ الجَاهِلُ أَغْنِيَاءَ i. e., The ignorant of their [real] state [would reckon them possessed of competence]. (TA.) هُوَ جَاهِلٌ مِنْهُ means هو جاهل
بِهِ, (K, TA,) i. e., He is ignorant [of him, or it, or] of his, or its, state, or condition. (TA.)