جهالة

Arabic

Noun

جَهَالَة • (jahāla) f

1. verbal noun of جَهِلَ (jahila, “to be ignorant, be stupid”) (form I)
2. ignorance
3. stupidity
4. folly
   • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi :

     ذُو الْعَقلِ يَشْقَى فِي النَّعِيمِ بِعَقْلِهِ / وَأَخُو الْجَهَالَةِ فِي الشَّقَاوَةِ يَنْعَمُ

5. rudeness

Declension

Declension of noun جَهَالَة (jahāla)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جَهَالَة jahāla	الْجَهَالَة al-jahāla	جَهَالَة jahālat
Nominative	جَهَالَةٌ jahālatun	الْجَهَالَةُ al-jahālatu	جَهَالَةُ jahālatu
Accusative	جَهَالَةً jahālatan	الْجَهَالَةَ al-jahālata	جَهَالَةَ jahālata
Genitive	جَهَالَةٍ jahālatin	الْجَهَالَةِ al-jahālati	جَهَالَةِ jahālati

Descendants

• → Turkish: cehalet

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جهالة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen