1. Given name

2. Family name

3. See also

4. References

Jalal ({{lang|ar|جلال}}) is an Arabic masculine name, often its meaning is majesty as an attribute of God in the Bible, such as Psalms and Christian hymns, and in the Quran. Many Arabic-speaking Christians or other Christians and Arab or non-Arab Muslims have Jalal as given or family name. Majesty is among other approximate meanings of Jalal, such as dignity, greatness, lordliness, loftiness, and glory to address a royal person like king, lord, emperor and monarch as in current monarchies, formal situations, histories, myths, and legends. When the Arabs spread their language over non-Arabic countries through religions or other ways, "Jalal", among other Arabic words, has been added to other language dictionaries of non-Arabic people.

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), which are written in Arabic and read in Churches, Jalal has the meaning of majesty. For example:

• Psalm (93:1):^[2] ".اَلرَّبُّ قَدْ مَلَكَ. لَبِسَ الْجَلاَلَ. لَبِسَ الرَّبُّ الْقُدْرَةَ، ائْتَزَرَ بِهَا. أَيْضًا تَثَبَّتَتِ الْمَسْكُونَةُ. لاَ تَتَزَعْزَعُ" which is in English:"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 word Jalal ({{lang|ar|جلال}}), appears twice in Quran as "{{lang|ar|ذو الجلال والإكرام}}", both in Surat al-Rahman, in verse number 27 and 78, as an attribute of Allah.

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 like that with "G" to differentiate the pronunciation. The word "Galal" that is found in other languages or as country names where other languages prevailed could have other meanings.

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
• Shah Jalal (1271–1346), Bengali Sufi scholar and mystic
• 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

See also

• Jalil (disambiguation)

References

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