جلهق

Entries on جلهق in 5 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār, Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, Al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, Kitāb al-ʿAin, and 2 more

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Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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جلهق

جُلَاهِقٌ Bullets, syn. بُنْدُقٌ, (S, Msb, K,) or rounded things, (En-Nadr, TA,) made of clay, (En-Nadr, Msb, TA,) which one shoots [from a cross-bow]: (K:) n. un. with ة: (En-Nadr, Msb, TA:) a Persian word, arabicized; (Msb;) in Persian جُلَهْ, meaning “ a ball of thread; ”

pl. جُلَهَا; applied also to “ a weaver; ” (S K;) i. e., جلها is so applied. (TA.) Hence, قَوْسُ الجُلَاهِقِ [The cross-bow for shooting bullets]. (S, Msb.) Quasi جلهم جَلْهَمَةٌ: see art. جله.