جبان jabān A (from جبن) adj. Pusillanimous.

جـﮩت jihat A s. f. 1. Cause, reason, account. 2. Side, surface, form, manner, mode.

جمادي اﻵخر jumādạ-l-āḵẖir A Name of the sixth Arabian month.

جنب jamb A s. A side, a part, a tract of country.

جوهر jauhar A (from Pers. گوهر) s. m. f. 1. A gem, jewel, pearl. 2. Skill, knowledge. 3. Matter, substance, essence (distinguished from accident). 4. Virtue, worth, merit. 5. Blackish marks in the steel of well tempered scimitars. 6. adj. Bright, glittering. جوهردار jauhar-dār, A sci- mitar marked with jauhar, q. v. جوهرکرنا jau- har karnā, To kill oneʼs self, to commit suicide. (When the Hindūs are attacked by a force too great for them to resist, they sometimes, in such cases, slaughter or burn their own wives and children, and then take to flight, or are them- selves slain; and, this act of killing their wives, &c. in such extremities, they call jūhar or jau- har).

جيمان jaimān जयवान् S̱. adj. Victorious.

جوگ jog S s. m. (योग) 1. Junction, fitting. 2. A fortunate moment, opportunity, occasion. 3. Penance, devotion, religious meditation, union with the supreme being by means of abstract contemplation. 4. Certain divisions of a great circle, measured upon the Ecliptick. (See Asiat. Res. Vol. ix. p. 365). 5. (योग्य) adj. Pos- sible, capable, fit. (In compos. it answers to able, worthy, &c.). جوگمايا jog-māyā, s. f. A deceptive power which Jogīs are supposed to possess.

جهڙنا jhaṛnā H v. n. To fall off (as, fruit from the tree), to be swept off, to shed, to emit, to drop, to fall, to pour, to shake, to strain, to be sound- ed (the نوبت), to be discharged (a volley).

جوانامرگ jawānā-marg P s. f. Death in the bloom of youth, untimely death. جوانامرگ مرنا jawānā-marg marnā, To die prematurely.

جلي jalī A adj. 1. Plain, apparent. 2. Large, plain (hand writing). فصل جلي faṣl-i-jalī, A season before the commencement of the rains in which a crop of rice is cut.