Jalil
جليلIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Great, exalted, venerable
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Celil, Djalil, Jaleel
Islamic naming guidance
- Permissible
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
Al-Jalil is also a name of Allah. Ibn Uthaymin, quoted by IslamQA, allows a person to bear such a name without 'al-' when the divine meaning is not intended.
Confidence: medium
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