جَمَلٌ

(S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.) and جَمْلٌ, (K,) which latter is so rare that it is said by some to be used only in poetry, in cases of necessity, (MF,) but it is a correct dialect var., (TA,) a word of well-known meaning; (K;) i. e., [A he-camel; but commonly applied to the camel as a generic term; in like manner as جَامِلٌ is applied to the males and the females; but properly,] the male of the إِبِل; (TA;) the mate of the نَاقَة; (Fr, S, Mgh;) among camels, corresponding to رَجُلٌ among us; (Sh, Msb;) نَاقَةٌ corresponding to مَرْأَةٌ, and بَكْرٌ to غُلَامٌ, and بَكْرَةٌ to جَارِيَةٌ; (Sh, TA;) [in general] peculiarly applied to the male; (Msb;) exceptionally to the female, as in the saying شَرِبْتُ لَبَنَ جَمَلِى, (K,) i. e., I drank the milk of my she-camel; but ISd doubts the correctness of this: (TA:) [as corresponding to رَجُلٌ among us, it signifies a full-grown hecamel:] or it signifies such as is termed رَبَاعٍ [or one in his seventh year]: (S, ISd, K:) or such as is termed جَذَعٌ [or one in his fifth year]: (ISd, K:) or such as is termed بَازِلٌ [or one in his ninth year]: (ISd, Mgh, Msb, K:) or such as is termed ثَنِىٌّ [or one in his sixth year]: (ISd, K:) or, according to Z, one that has covered: (TA:) [see also بَعِيرٌ, and بَكْرٌ, and قَعُودٌ:] plural [of pauc.] أَجْمَالٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) which may be plural of جَمْلٌ, (TA,) and أَجْمُلٌ (Msb) and [of mult.] جِمَالٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جُمْلٌ (K) and جِمَالَةٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and [quasi-plural n.] جُمَالَةٌ and جَمَالَةٌ and جَامِلٌ, (K,) which last is disallowed by some, as will be seen below, (TA,) and [plural plural] جِمَالَاتٌ, (S, Msb, K,) which is plural of جِمَالٌ, (Msb, TA,) or it may be plural of جِمَالَةٌ, (TA,) and جُمَالَاتٌ [which see also voce جُمَّلٌ] and جَمَالَاتٌ (K) and جَمَايءِلُ, (S, K,) plural of جمالة and جِمال, (Ham p. 527,) and أَجَامِلُ. (K.) One says of camels, when they are males, without any female among them, هٰذِهِ جِمَالَةُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ [These are the hecamels of the sons of such a one]. (ISk, S. [See also جُمَالَةٌ.]) And they said also جِمَالَانِ [meaning Two herds of camels, thus forming a dual from the plural جِمَالٌ], like as they said لِقَاحَانِ. (ISd, in TA voce خَيْلٌ.) It is said in a prov., مَااسْتَتَرَ مَنْ قَادَ الجَمَلَ [He does not conceal himself who leads the he-camel]. (TA.) And in another prov., اِتَّخَذَ اللَّيْلَ جَمَلًا (assumed tropical:) He journeyed all the night. (K, TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 230.])

الجَمَلُ also signifies A certain fish (IAar, K) of the sea, (IAar, TA,) thirty cubits in length: (K:) or, as some say, جَمَلُ البَحْرِ is the name of a very great fish, also called the بَال, [i. e., the whale,] thirty cubits in length: according to some, this, (TA,) or جَمَلُ المَاءِ, (Mgh,) is what is called the كَوْسَج and كُبَع (Mgh, TA) and لُخْم, [i. e., xiphias, or sword-fish,] which passes by nothing without cutting it. (TA.) [In the present day, جَمَلُ البَحْرِ is an appellation of The pelican.]

عَيْنُ الجَمَلِ, in the dialect of Egypt, i. q. الشَّاه بَلُّوط [The chestnut]. (TA.)

جَمَلٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) A woman's husband. (L in arts. اخذ and قيد. See 2 in each of those arts.)

Also (tropical:) Palm-trees; (K;) as being likened to the he-camel in respect of their tallness and their bigness and their produce: in some of the copies of the K, النَّحْلُ is erroneously put for النَّخْلُ. (TA.)