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رِجْل
leg (or foot) /ˈridʒl/
nounB2#3060 most common
Also: foot, leg of an animal, leg of a piece of furniture
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ رِجْلِي.
This is my leg.
رِجْلِي تُؤْلِمُنِي.
My leg hurts.
كَسَرَ الْوَلَدُ رِجْلَهُ وَهُوَ يَلْعَبُ كُرَةَ الْقَدَمِ.
The boy broke his leg while playing football.
لِلطَّاوِلَةِ أَرْبَعُ أَرْجُلٍ مِنَ الْخَشَبِ.
The table has four wooden legs.
وَقَفَتِ الرَّاقِصَةُ عَلَى رِجْلٍ وَاحِدَةٍ بِتَوَازُنٍ مُدْهِشٍ.
The dancer stood on one leg with astonishing balance.
أَنْهَى الْمَشْرُوعَ كُلَّهُ عَلَى رِجْلٍ وَاحِدَةٍ فِي لَيْلَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ.
He finished the whole project in one go, in a single night.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | رِجْلٌ | أَرْجُلٌ |
| Genitive | رِجْلٍ | أَرْجُلٍ |
| Accusative | رِجْلاً | أَرْجُلاً |
| Vocative | يَا رِجْلُ | يَا أَرْجُلُ |
Word family
رَجُلman
رَاجِلpedestrian, on foot, foot soldier
تَرَجَّلto dismount, get down on foot
رَجَّالةinfantry, foot soldiers (collective)
Etymology
رِجْل comes from the Proto-Semitic root r-g-l, meaning foot or leg. Arabic belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, not the Indo-European family, so it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor. The same root appears across other Semitic languages with the same core body-part meaning. Classical Arabic lexicographers also link the word رَجُل, meaning man, to this root, in the sense of one who goes on foot.
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