Jalīlah
جليلة
Say it ja-LEE-lah
Of high standing
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- j-l-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Jalila, Jaleela, Jalilah
Meaning & source
Of great worth and standing: jalīl describes a weighty matter and a person of high rank (Lisān).
-
والجَلِيل: مِنْ صِفَاتِ اللَّهِ تَقَدَّسَ وَتَعَالَى، وَقَدْ يُوصَفُ بِهِ الأَمر الْعَظِيمُ، وَالرَّجُلُ ذُو الْقَدْرِ الخَطِير.
Who carried this name
- Jalīlah bint ʿAbd al-Jalīl, named in Abū Saʿd al-Naysābūrī’s Sharaf al-Muṣṭafā Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10979 (vol. 8, p. 63)