Jalal
Jalal or Galal (Arabic: جلال), a masculine name, means majesty, dignity, lordliness, and glory. Because of its majestic and glorious meanings, Jalal is used as an attribute of God in the Bible, Psalms and Christian hymns, and in the Quran, and as a characteristic of royals like kings, lords, monarchs, and emperors in histories, myths, legends, monarchies, and formal situations. When the Arabs spread their language across non-Arabic countries, "Jalal" among other Arabic words has been added to other language dictionaries of non-Arabic people. Many Arabic-speaking Christians and Arab or non-Arab Muslims have Jalal as given or family name.
Another form of the name is the Arabic spelling variant "Galal", mostly in the Egyptian Arabic dialect where the letter "j" or in Arabic "ج" is pronounced like the hard g /g/ in English as (garden, gather...), and it is written with the "G" to differentiate the pronunciation. The word "Galal" found in other languages or as country names could have other meanings.
Gender | male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Arabic |
Meaning | Majesty, dignity, lordliness, loftiness, greatness, splendor, solemnity, glory. |
Examples
Jalal could be found in many history, art, religious, and poetry books as in:
- The Bible, and in many Psalms, Verses, and Christian hymns, such as Psalms (29:4), (93:1), (111:3), (145:5), etc.[1], Isaiah (2:10), (26:10), (30:30), etc.[1], and the Great Doxology (Christian Hymn), written in Arabic and read in Churches:
- Psalm (93:1):[2] ".اَلرَّبُّ قَدْ مَلَكَ. لَبِسَ الْجَلاَلَ. لَبِسَ الرَّبُّ الْقُدْرَةَ، ائْتَزَرَ بِهَا. أَيْضًا تَثَبَّتَتِ الْمَسْكُونَةُ. لاَ تَتَزَعْزَعُ" which is:"The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty;...".[3]
- Isaiah (26:10):[4] ".يُرْحَمُ الْمُنَافِقُ وَلاَ يَتَعَلَّمُ الْعَدْلَ. فِي أَرْضِ الاسْتِقَامَةِ يَصْنَعُ شَرًّا وَلاَ يَرَى جَلاَلَ الرَّبِّ"
- Great Doxology: ".المجد لله في العلى وعلى الأرض السلام، وفي الناس المسرة. نسبحك نباركك، نسجد لك، نمجدك، نشكرك من أجل عظيم جلال مجدك"
- The Quran as "ذو الجلال والإكرام", both in Surat al-Rahman, in verse number 27 and 78.
- The name of the second month in the Badi calendar used by Bahá’ís, also the first day of the week.
- Other books: All you see is glory. " كل ما تراه هو الجلال"
Given name
- Jalal Khoury (1933–2017), Lebanese playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor
- Jalal Merhi (born 1967), Canadian action film producer
- Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (1944–2018), American poet
- Jalal Toufic (born 1962), Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications
- Jalal Talabani (born 1933), Iraqi politician
- Jalal al-Dawla (994–1044), Buyid amir of Iraq
- Jalal Agha (1945–1995), Indian actor and director
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923–1969), Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic
- Jalal Akbari (born 1983), Iranian football player
- Jalal Hosseini (born 1982), Iranian football player
- Jalal Abdul Carim Sahib (1865–1939), Indian businessman
- Jalal Talebi (born 1942), Iranian football player and manager
- Jalal Zolfonun (1937–2012), Iranian composer and setar player
Family name
- Ayesha Jalal, Pakistani-American historian
- Farida Jalal (born 1949), Indian actress
- Imrana Jalal, Indian-Fijian lawyer and activist
- Massouda Jalal (born 1962), Afghan politician
- Sayed Mahmood Jalal (born 1980), Bahraini footballer
- Shwan Jalal (born 1983), Iraqi-English football goalkeeper
Fictional people
- Galal, main character of the "Galal trilogy" by Egyptian author Kamal Ruhayyim.
See also
References
- ^ a b "BibleGateway.com: Search for a Bible passage in 65 languages and 208 versions". www.biblegateway.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- ^ "آية (مز 93: 1): الرب قد ملك لبس الجلال لبس الرب القدرة ائتزر بها أيضا تثبتت المسكونة لا تتزعزع". st-takla.org. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
- ^ "Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 93 - New International Version". Bible Gateway. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- ^ "آية (إش 26: 10): يرحم المنافق ولا يتعلم العدل في أرض الاستقامة يصنع شرا ولا يرى جلال الرب". st-takla.org. Retrieved 2018-06-19.