جاهل

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

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaː.hil/
• Rhymes: -il

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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• عَالِم‎ (ʕālim)

• Gulf Arabic: ياهل‎ (yāhil, “kid, child”)
• → Azerbaijani: cahil
• → Georgian: ჯეილი (ǯeili, “youngster”), ჯეელი (ǯeeli)
• → Khalaj: câhıl
• → Lishana Deni: גׄחל‎ (jaḥəl)
• → Malay: jahil
• → Middle Armenian: ջահիլ (ǰahil)
  • Armenian: ջահիլ (ǰahil)
• → Northern Kurdish: cahil (“ignorant”), cehêl (“young”)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Turkish: cahil
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Uzbek: johil
  • → Armenian: ջահել (ǰahel)
  • → Romani: ʒukel (possibly)

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• IPA^(key): /ʒaː.hil/

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

جاهل (cahil)

1. Arabic spelling of cahil

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جاهل • (cahil)

1. ignorant, idiot

   Synonyms: بلمز‎ (bilmez), نادان‎ (nadan)

• جاهللك‎ (cahillik, “ignorance”)

• Turkish: cahil

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “جاهل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 178

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

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

• نادان‎ (nâdân)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “جاهل”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press