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Jalal ( Arabic: جلال) is a masculine given or family name. The name or word Jalal means majesty and is used to honor and venerate.

When the Arabic language spread across non-Arabic regions, Jalal has also become a name for some Arabic-speaking Christians, non-Arab Muslims, and non-Arabs and has been added to other language dictionaries with the majestic meaning.

Another form is Galal, where the first letter "ج" is pronounced like hard g /''g''/ in English. Galal might have other meanings in different languages.

Examples

The word Jalal could be found in many history, art, religious, and poetry books. For example:

# Jalal is used as a characteristic when addressing royals like kings and lords in history, myth, and formal occasion.
#Jalál the second month and the Saturday as a first day of the week in the Bahá’í calendar.
#Religious books;
##In the Bible, Jalal is used as a veneration for God in Psalms (111:3), (145:5), etc., Isaiah (26:10), (30:30), etc., and the Great Doxology, written and read in Churches in Arabic. For example:
##*Psalm (111:3)
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: ".جَلاَلٌ وَبَهَاءٌ عَمَلُهُ، وَعَدْلُهُ قَائِمٌ إِلَى الأَبَدِ"
##*Great Doxology

, in the second line: ".نشكرك من أجل عظيم جلال مجدك..."
##In the word Aljalal which cannot be used as a given or family name because "Al" is here restricted to God in "ذو الجلال والإكرام" verses 27 and 78 of Surat al-Rahman in the Quran.

Given name

*Jalal Abdul Carim Sahib (1865–1939), Indian businessman
* Jalal Agha (1945–1995), Indian actor and director
*Jalal Akbari (born 1983), Iranian football player
* Jalal al-Dawla (994–1044), Buyid amir of Iraq
* Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923–1969), Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic
*Jalal Hosseini (born 1982), Iranian football player
*Jalal Khoury (1933–2017), Lebanese playwright, theater director, comedian
* Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (1944–2018), American poet
* Jalal Merhi (born 1967), Canadian action film producer
*Jalal Pishvaian (1930–2021), Iranian actor
* Jalal Talabani (1933-2017), Iraqi politician, president
*Jalal Talebi (born 1942), Iranian football player and manager
*Jalal Toufic (born 1962), Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author
*Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (born 1542), Mughal sultan
*Jalal Zolfonun (1937–2012), Iranian composer and setar player

Family name

* Ahmed Galal (born 1948), Egyptian economist
* Ayesha Jalal (born 1956), Pakistani-American historian
* Aziza Jalal (born 1958), Moroccan Arabic pop singer
* Farida Jalal (born 1950), Persian actor
* Imrana Jalal, Indian-Fijian lawyer and activist
* Massouda Jalal (born 1964), Afghan politician
* Ramez Galal (born 1973), Egyptian comic, actor and singer
* 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.
*Jalal Fernandes, an antagonist in the Fairy Tail series.

See also

* Jalil (disambiguation)

References

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Arabic-language surnames
Arabic masculine given names

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