# نجل
## Arabic
### Etymology

From the root ن ج ل (n j l). Connectable to Hebrew נָגַר (nagar, “to flow out”), Aramaic נְגַר (nəgar, “to flow out”), Classical Syriac ܢܓܰܪ (nəgar, “to last”), Ge'ez ነገድ (nägäd, “kin; progeny”), Hebrew נֶכֶד (neḵeḏ, “progeny”), Ge'ez ነገደ (nägädä, “to travel”), Aramaic נְגַד / ܢܓܰܕ (nəgad, “to flow; to draw, to pull; to stretch out”), Ge'ez ሞገድ (mogäd, “wave”), Ge'ez ነገለ (nägälä, “to be uprooted; to roll up”), Classical Syriac ܢܓܰܠ (nəgal, “to clear away”). From here developing ideas of begetting, offspring creeping out of plants and animals, so also in Tigre ነገል (näggäl, “young goat, kid”).

### Verb

نَجَلَ • (najala) I (non-past يَنْجِلُ (yanjilu) or يَنْجُلُ (yanjulu), verbal noun نَجْل (najl))
* to be covered with vegetation
* to have offspring, to beget, to sire
* to kick
* to mistreat
* to lead out, to draw out
* to remove the skin of
* to cut with the sickle

#### Conjugation
### Verb

نَجِلَ • (najila) I (non-past يَنْجَلُ (yanjalu), verbal noun نَجَل (najal))
* to have large or widely open eyes, to be widely open (of an eye)

#### Conjugation
### Noun

نَجْل • (najl) m (plural أَنْجَال (ʔanjāl))
* posterity
* offspring, child

#### Declension
### Noun

نَجْل • (najl) m (plural نِجَال (nijāl))
* flowing water

#### Declension
### Adjective

نُجْل • (nujl) pl
* common plural of أَنْجَلُ (ʔanjalu, “having large or widely open eyes”)

### References

* “نجل” in Almaany
* Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 45
* “ngd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* “ngr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* “ngl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Corriente, Federico (2005) “نجل”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎ (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 1145
* Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 693–695
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “نجل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 246
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نجل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 1207
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 197
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 332
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 391–392
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نجل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 1104
* H5064 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* H5047 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible