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From جَلْجَلَ(jaljala, “to rattle”) for the fruits of Savignya parviflora, foreboding high summer, dance and shake when ripe and dry – if the verb is not from the plant. The name for this plant also bears the forms قُلْقُلَان(qulqulān), قُلَيْقِلَان(qulayqilān). The meaning sesame however is already found in Sabaean𐩴𐩡𐩴𐩡𐩬(glgln).
577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 321 Nr. 501:
ويقولون لطرف التِّين البُجُّول. والصّواب الذَّنبُ. ويقال لما في جَوْفِهِ الْجُلْجُلَانُ. ويقال لِلَّبَنِ الذي يسيل منه إِذا كان أخضرَ النَّسَلُ.
One calls a fig stalk bujjūl. The right is ḏanab. One says for what is in its inner juljulān. And the milk which flows from it when it is green nasal.
Declension
Declension of noun جُلْجُلان (juljulān); جِلْجِلَان (jiljilān)
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