ر ج لthe leg; a man

رجل · rajul · a man

• Met in: V1 p11 ¶1c: «رجل آتاه الله عز وجل حكمة فهو يقضي بها ويعلمها الناس», "a man to whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has given wisdom, and he judges by it and teaches it to people".
• Dictionary form: رَجُل. Lane: "A man, as meaning the male of the human species".
• Pattern: فَعُل (faʿul). The plural is رِجَال (rijāl), 28 times in the Quran.
• Meaning here: A man: the hadith names two men worth envying, one given wisdom and one given wealth.

Ibn Faris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, root رجل, vol 2, p 492

الراء والجيم واللام معظم بابه يدل على العضو الذي هو رجل كل ذي رجل

Most of this root points to the limb that is the leg (rijl) of everything that has legs.

Urdu bridge

Urdu meets the plural in علمِ رجال, the study of the men who carried the hadith, and the root in رجولیت, manliness. (to be confirmed)

Quran

73 words from this root (Quranic Arabic Corpus). Most common: رَجُل (a man) ×29, رِجَال (men) ×28, رِجْل (a leg, a foot) ×15.

وَجَآءَ مِنْ أَقْصَا ٱلْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَىٰ قَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱتَّبِعُوا۟ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ

And there came from the farthest end of the city a man, running. He said, "O my people, follow the messengers.

Surah Yaseen (36), ayah 20 · Saheeh International

Why this ayah: «رَجُلٌ يَسْعَىٰ», "a man, running": the word on its own: one man who comes running to tell his people, "follow the messengers".

In the Ihya

رجل: 1,146 times in the Ihya.