# رجل
## Arabic

* Root
* ر ج ل (r j l)
* 9 terms

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.d͡ʒi.la/

#### Verb

رَجِلَ • (rajila) I (non-past يَرْجَلُ (yarjalu), verbal noun رَجِل (rajil))
* to go on foot, to walk

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa.la/

#### Verb

رَجَّلَ • (rajjala) II (non-past يُرَجِّلُ (yurajjilu), verbal noun تَرْجِيل (tarjīl))
* to comb (the hair)
* to let down (the hair)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

Originally "walker", attested with the meaning "footsoldier" as Safaitic 𐪇𐪔𐪁 (rgl).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.d͡ʒul/

#### Noun

رَجُل • (rajul) m (plural رِجَال (rijāl))
* man (adult male human)
    Coordinate term: اِمْرَأَة (imraʔa)

##### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: ريال (rayyāl, “man”), ريل (rayil, “husband”)
* Hijazi Arabic: رِجَّال (rijjāl)
* Maltese: raġel

#### Noun

رَجْل • (rajl) m (plural رِجَال (rijāl))
* Obsolete form of رَجُل (rajul).

### Etymology 4

From Proto-Semitic *rigl-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rid͡ʒl/

#### Noun

رِجْل • (rijl) f (dual رِجْلَانِ (rijlāni), plural أَرْجُل (ʔarjul)) (countable)
* (anatomy) an extremity; a limb
    Synonyms: طَرَف (ṭaraf), ذِرَاع (ḏirāʕ), يَد (yad)
** (of humans) a leg
    Hyponyms: فَخْذ (faḵḏ, “upper leg, thigh”), رُكْبَة (rukba, “knee”), سَاق (sāq, “lower leg, shank”), عَقِب (ʕaqib, “heel”), قَدَم (qadam, “foot”)
** (of quadrupeds) a hind leg
    Coordinate term: يَد (yad, “foreleg”)

##### Derived terms

* رِجْل الْقَنْطُور (rijl al-qanṭūr, “Alpha Centauri”, literally “foot of the centaur”)

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: رجل f (regl)
* Gulf Arabic: ريل f (rīl)
* Hijazi Arabic: رِجِل f (rijil)
* Maltese: riġel f
* Moroccan Arabic: رجل f (rjal)
* North Levantine Arabic: إجر f (ʔijr)

#### Noun

رِجْل • (rijl) m (plural أَرْجَال (ʔarjāl))
* swarm (especially, of locusts)

##### Declension
#### Noun

رِجْل • (rijl) m (collective)
* common purslane (Portulaca oleracea)

##### Alternative forms

* رِجْلَة (rijla)

#### Noun

رِجْل • (rijl) m
* going on foot, pedestrian, walking

##### Declension
### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.d͡ʒil/

#### Noun

رَجِل • (rajil) m (plural رَجْل (rajl) or رِجَال (rijāl) or رَجْلَة (rajla) or رَجْلَى (rajlā) or رُجَّال (rujjāl) or رَجَّالَة (rajjāla) or رُجَّالَى (rujjālā) or رَجَالَى (rajālā) or رُجَالَى (rujālā) or رُجْلَان (rujlān) or أَرَاجِل (ʔarājil) or أَرَاجِيل (ʔarājīl) or أَرْجِلَة (ʔarjila))
* verbal noun of رَجِلَ (rajila) (form I)
* pedestrian, traveler on foot
* neither lank nor crisp, neither scrawny nor shredded, neither svelte nor portly, well on foot due to not having excess mass
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 60:68:رَأَيْتُ مُوسَى وَإِذَا رَجُلٌ ضَرْبٌ رَجِلٌ، كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ رِجَالِ شَنُوءَةَ، وَرَأَيْتُ عِيسَى، فَإِذَا هُوَ رَجُلٌ رَبْعَةٌ أَحْمَرُ كَأَنَّمَا خَرَجَ مِنْ دِيمَاسٍraʔaytu mūsā waʔiḏā rajulun ḍarbun rajilun, kaʔannahu min rijāli šanūʔata, waraʔaytu ʕīsā, faʔiḏā huwa rajulun rabʕatun ʔaḥmaru kaʔannamā ḵaraja min dīmāsinI saw Moses who was a man neither of a scrawny nor a shredded stature, as though he were of the Šanūʾa men, and I saw Jesus, cobby and red as though he had come out of a bathhouse.
* foal which is allowed to suck freely

##### Declension
### Etymology 6
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rad͡ʒl/

#### Noun

رَجْل • (rajl) m pl
* plural of رَاجِل (rājil)
* plural of رَجِل (rajil)

### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “رجل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1043–1047
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “رجل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 405
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “رجل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 380–381

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ر ج ل
* 2 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic رِجْل (rijl).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ri.d͡ʒil/, [rɪ.d͡ʒɪl]

### Noun

رجل • (rijil) f (dual رجلین (rijlēn), plural رِجُول (rijūl))
* foot
* leg
    Synonym: ساق (sāg)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /riʒl/, [ˈrɪ.ʒ(ɪ)l]
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### Etymology 1

From Arabic رِجْل (rijl).

#### Noun

رجل • (rijl) f (plural رجلین (rijlēn) or أرجل (ʔarjol))
* foot
    Synonyms: إجر (ʔijr), (formal) قدم (qadam)
* leg
    Synonyms: إجر (ʔijr), ساق (sāʔ)

##### Usage notes

* إجر (ʔijr) is more common in urban speech.

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic رَجُل (rajul). Doublet of رجّال (rijjāl).

#### Noun

رجل • (rajol) m (plural رجال (rjāl, rijāl))
* (formal) man
    Synonyms: رجّال (rijjāl), زلمة (zalame)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَجُل (rajul).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɾə.d͡ʒʊl/

### Noun

رَجُل • (rajul) m (Hindi spelling रजुल)
* man
    Synonym: مرد (mard)

### References

* “رجل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “رجل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.