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رَجُل
man /ˈra.dʒul/
nounA1#44 most common
Also: adult male, a real/honorable man
Example sentences
هَذَا رَجُلٌ.
This is a man.
الرَّجُلُ طَوِيلٌ.
The man is tall.
الرَّجُلُ يَعْمَلُ فِي المَدِينَةِ.
The man works in the city.
رَأَيْتُ رَجُلاً عَجُوزًا أَمَامَ السُّوقِ.
I saw an old man in front of the market.
قَالَ الرَّجُلُ إِنَّهُ سَيُسَافِرُ غَدًا.
The man said that he will travel tomorrow.
لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ أَنْ يَحْمِلَ هٰذَا العِبْءَ بِمُفْرَدِهِ.
A single man cannot bear this burden on his own.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | رَجُلٌ | رِجَالٌ |
| Genitive | رَجُلٍ | رِجَالٍ |
| Accusative | رَجُلاً | رِجَالاً |
| Vocative | يَا رَجُلُ | يَا رِجَالُ |
Word family
رِجَال (rijāl)men (plural of رَجُل)
رُجُولَة (rujūla)manhood, manliness
رِجَالِيّ (rijālī)men's, manly
رَاجِل (rājil)pedestrian, one on foot
Etymology
رَجُل 'man' is built on the Semitic triconsonantal root ر-ج-ل (r-j-l), which is bound up with the notion of the leg or foot. The same root gives رِجْل 'foot/leg' and رَاجِل 'one who goes on foot', with the noun for an adult male formed on the فَعُل pattern. Because the root is Semitic rather than Indo-European, it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor; its surest relatives are the words for 'foot/leg' in sister Semitic languages.
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