جاهل

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ح ه ل (ḥ-h-l)

Etymology[edit]

Derived from the active participle of جَهِلَ (jahila, to be ignorant), from the root ج ه ل (j-h-l).

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جَاهِل (jāhil) (feminine جَاهِلَة (jāhila), common plural جُهَّل (juhhal), masculine plural جَاهِلُون (jāhilūn) or جُهَّال (juhhāl) or جُهَلَاء (juhalāʔ) or جَهَلَة (jahala), feminine plural جَاهِلَات (jāhilāt) or جَوَاهِل (jawāhil), elative أَجْهَل (ʔajhal))

  1. ignorant, uneducated
  2. foolish
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:63:
      وَعِبَادُ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ ٱلْجَـٰهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَٰمًا
      waʕibādu r-raḥmāni llaḏīna yamšūna ʕalā l-ʔarḍi hawnan waʔiḏā ḵāṭabahumu l-jāhilūna qālū salāman
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Moroccan Arabic[edit]

Root
ج ه ل
1 term

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic جَاهِل (jāhil).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

جاهل (jāhil) (feminine جاهلة (jāhla), common plural جهال (juhhāl) or جهلة (juhala), masculine plural جاهلين (jāhlīn), feminine plural جاهلات (jāhlāt), elative جهل (jhal) or أجهل (ʔajhal))

  1. ignorant, illiterate, uneducated
  2. having a blind rage

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

جاهل (cahil)

  1. Arabic spelling of cahil

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic جَاهِل (jāhil).

Adjective[edit]

جاهل (cahil)

  1. ignorant, idiot
    Synonyms: بلمز (bilmez), نادان (nadan)

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic جَاهِل (jāhil).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? jāhil
Dari reading? jāhil
Iranian reading? jâhel
Tajik reading? johil

Adjective[edit]

Dari جاهل
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷоҳил

جاهل (jâhel) (comparative جاهل‌تَر (jâhel-tar), superlative جاهل‌تَرین (jâhel-tarin))

  1. foolish, unwise
  2. ignorant, uninformed
  3. (informal, now rare) young

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