ج ل خ

ج ل خ

Arabic

Etymology

Probably a variant of ج ل ح‎ (j-l-ḥ).

Root

ج ل خ • (j-l-ḵ)

1. related to honing

Derived terms

• Form I: جَلَخَ‎ (jalaḵa, “to abrade, to grind, to strop”)
  • Verbal noun: جَلْخ‎ (jalḵ)
  • Active participle: جَالِخ‎ (jāliḵ)
  • Passive participle: مَجْلُوخ‎ (majlūḵ)
• Form II: جَلَّخَ‎ (jallaḵa, “to abrade, to grind, to strop”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْلِيخ‎ (tajlīḵ)
  • Active participle: مُجَلِّخ‎ (mujalliḵ)
  • Passive participle: مُجَلَّخ‎ (mujallaḵ)
• Form IX: اِجْلَخَّ‎ (ijlaḵḵa, “to be debile, to be feeble”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْلِخَاخ‎ (ijliḵāḵ)
  • Active participle: مُجْلَخّ‎ (mujlaḵḵ)
• Form XV: اِجْلَنْخَى‎ (ijlanḵā, “to collapse”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْلِنْخَاء‎ (ijlinḵāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُجْلَنْخٍ‎ (mujlanḵin)

• مِجْلَخَة‎ (mijlaḵa, “grinder, grindstone”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ج ل خ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 293
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ج ل خ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 190–191