jadd

grandfather

جَدّ

Word

Noun

Root

ج د د

Forms

Plurals
جُدُود، أَجْداد

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قُلْنَا : جُدُّ بْنُ قَيْسٍ ، عَلَى أَنَّا نُبَخِّلُهُ ، قَالَ : وَأَيُّ دَاءٍ أَدْوَى مِنَ الْبُخْلِ ؟

Al-Adab al-Mufrad, page 99 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • جَدَّهُ Form I He cut it, or cut it off
    , aor. , (S, Msb,) inf. n. جَدٌّ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) He cut it, or cut it off. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) This is the primary signification. (Mgh.) You say of a weaver, جَدَّ ثَوْبًا He cut off a piece of cloth [sufficient for a garment or the like, from the web]. (S, K.) And جَدَّ النَّخْلَ, (S, Mgh, L,) aor, , (S, L,) inf. n. جَدٌّ (S, L, K) and جَدَادٌ (Lh, Mgh, L) and جِدَادٌ; (Lh, L; [in the L, the last two forms are mentioned as inf. ns., and the former of them is mentioned as inf. n. in the Mgh; but in the K, they are only mentioned as syn. with جَدٌّ; and in the S, it seems to be implied that they are simple substs., or quasiinf. ns.;]) i. q. صَرَمَهُ; (Lh, S, Mgh, K; *) [like جَذَّهُ and جَزَّهُ;] i.e., He cut off the fruit of the palm-trees. (Mgh, L. [See also جَدَادٌ.]) And جُدَّتْ أَخْلَافُ النَّاقَةِ The she-camel's teats were cut off by some accident that befell her: (As, TA:) or, in consequence of injury occasioned to her by the صِرَار [q. v.]. (S.) And تَجْدِيدٌ [inf. n. of ↓ جدّد] signifies The cutting off the teat of a camel. (KL.) You say also, جُدَّ ثَدْيَا أُمِّكَ May thy mother's breasts be cut off: a form of imprecation against a man; and implying a wish for his separation. (As, L, from a trad.) ― -b2- See also 5. -A2- جَدَّ, aor. , inf. n. جِدَّةٌ, It (a garment, TA, or a thing, S, Msb, TA) was new; (S, L, Msb, K;) [as though newly cut off from the web;] from جَدَّ as signifying “ he cut, ” or “ cut off. ” (L.) [See also 5.] -A3- جَدَّ, like تَعِبَ, (Msb,) see. pers. جَدِدٌتَ, [like its syn. حَظِظْتَ,] (L, Msb,) aor. يَجَدُّ; (Msb;) or جُدَّ, with damm, (Mgh,) see. pers. جُدِدْتَ, (S,) [aor. يُجَدُّ;] inf. n. جَدٌّ; (S, * Mgh, L, Msb;) He was, or became, fortunate, or possessed of good fortune, (S, Mgh, L, Msb,) or of good worldly fortune; (TA;) he advanced in the world, or in worldly circumstances; (Mgh;) بِالأَمْرِ by the affair, or event, whether good or evil; (L;) or بِالشَّىْءِ by the thing. (Msb.) And هُمْ يُجَدُّونَ بِهِمْ, as also يُحَظُّونَ بهم, They become possessed of good fortune, and riches, or competence, or sufficiency. (Ibn-Buzurj, L.) [You say also, جَدَّ جَدُّهُ (tropical:) : so in a copy of the A: probably a mistranscription for جَدَّ جِدُّهُ, which see below: if not, meaning His fortune became good; or his good fortune increased in goodness: or, perhaps, his dignity became great; from what next follows]. -A4- جَدّ فِى عَيْنِى, (S, A,) or فِى عُيُونِ النَّاسِ, and صُدُورِهِمْ, (Mgh,) aor. , inf. n. جَدٌّ, (S,) He was, or became, great, or of great dignity or estimation, in my eye, or in the eyes of men, and their minds. (S, A, Mgh.) It is said in a trad. of Anas, كَانَ الرَّجُلُ مِنَّا إِذَا قَرَأَ البَقَرَةَ وَآلَ عِمْرَانَ جَدَّ فِينَا, i. e., [A man of us, when he recited the chapter of the Cow and that of the Family of 'Imrán (the second and third chapters of the Kur-án),] used to be great in our eyes. (S.) -A5- جَدَّ فِى الأَمْرِ, (S, A, K,) or فِى أَمْرِهِ, (L,) or فِى كَلَامِهِ, (Msb,) aor. (S, L, Msb, K) and , (L, K,) inf. n. جِدٌّ, (S, K,) or جَدٌّ, (L, Msb,) جِدٌّ being a simple subst.; (Msb;) and فِيهِ ↓ اجدّ; (L, K;) He was serious, or in earnest, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) in the affair, (S, A, K,) or in his affair, (L,) or in his speech; (Msb;) syn. حَقَّقَ; (L;) contr. of هَزَلَ. (L, Msb. [In the S and A and K, the inf. n. is said to signify the contr. of هَزْلٌ; and in the K, it is also said to be syn. with تَحْقِيقٌ.]) ― -b2- And جَدَّ فِى الأَمْرِ, (As, S, L, Msb, K,) aor. and , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. جِدٌّ, (S, * K, * TA,) or this is a simple subst., and the inf. n. is جَدٌّ; (Msb;) and فيه ↓ اجدّ; (As, S, L, K;) signify also He strove, laboured, or toiled; exerted himself or his power or efforts or endeavours or ability; employed himself vigorously, strenuously, laboriously, diligently, studiously, sedulously, earnestly, or with energy; was diligent, or studious; took pains, or extraordinary pains; in the affair. (As, S, L, Msb, K.) And جَدَّفِى السَّيْرِ He strove, laboured, toiled, or exerted himself, in going, or journeying, or in his course, or pace; (tropical:) he hastened therein: and in like manner, السَّيْرَ ↓ اجدّ (assumed tropical:) he hastened his course, or pace. (L.) And جَدَّ جِدُّهُ, [meaning His labour, or exertion, or energy, was, or became, great, or extraordinary: or] meaning اِزْدَادَ جِدُّهُ جِدًّا [his labour, &c., increased in labour, &c.]: or it may mean what was not [his] جِدّ, became جِدّ; wherefore, i. e. because it would be so eventually, it is here so called. (Ham p. 33. [See also جَدَّ جَدُّهُ, above.] ― -b3- جَدَّ بِهِ الأَمْرُ (A, L) (tropical:) The affair, or event, distressed, or afflicted, him. (L.) So in the saying of Aboo-Sahm, " أَخَالِدُ لَا يَرْضَى عَنِ العَبْدِ رَبُّهُ إِذَا جَدَّ بِالشَّيْخِ العُقُوقُ المُصَمِّمُ " [O Khálid, his Lord will not approve of the servant, or man, (meaning the son,) when cutting, or biting, disobedience to a parent distresses the old man]. (L.) -A6- جَدَّ, aor, inf. n. جَدٌّ and جِدٌّ, It (a house, or tent, بَيْت) dripped, or let fall drops. (K.)
  • جدّد Form II making
    , inf. n. تَجْدِيدٌ: see 1. -A2- See also 4, in three places. -A3- تجديد also signifies The making [or weaving] stripes of different colours in a garment. (KL.)
  • جادّهُ فِى الأَمْرِ Form III He contended with him respecting a thing, each of them asserting his right therein
    , (S, L, K, *) inf. n. مُجَادَّةٌ, (L,) i. q. حَاقَّهٌ (S, L) or حَاقَقَهُ (K) [He contended with him respecting a thing, each of them asserting his right therein: so accord. to explanations of حاقّهُ in the lexicons: but I think that the meaning intended here is, he acted seriously, or in earnest, with him in the affair; and this is confirmed by its being immediately added in the TA, after حاققه, “ and أَجَدَّ ” signifies “ حَقَّقَ, as above mentioned: ” see جَدَّفِى الأَمْرِ expl. by حَقَّقَ as contr. of هَزَلَ]. Also He exerted his full effort, or endeavour, or energy, with him in the affair. (So accord. to an explanation of the inf. n., مجادَة, in the KL.)
  • اجدّ النَّخْلُ Form IV The palm-trees attained to the time for the cutting off of the fruit
    The palm-trees attained to the time for the cutting off of the fruit. (S, A, * L, Msb, K.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps,] أَجَدَّتْ قَرُنِى مِنْهُ I (myself, TA) relinquished, or forsook, him, or it. (K.) -A2- اجدّهُ, and ↓ استجدّهُ, (S, A, L, K,) and ↓ جدّدهُ, (S, L, K,) He made it new; (S, A, L, K;) namely, a thing, (S,) or a garment: (A, TA:) or he put it on, or wore it, new; namely, a garment. (TA.) One says to him who puts on a new garment, أَبْلِ وَأَجِدَّ وَٱحْمَدِ الكَاسِى [Wear out, and make, or put on, new, and praise the Clother, meaning God]. (S.) And you say, بَهِىَ بَيْتُ فُلَانٍ فَأَجَدَّ بَيْتًا مِنْ شَعَرٍ [The tent of such a one was, or became, rent, or pierced with holes; therefore he made a new tent of haircloth]. (S.) And الأَمْرَ ↓ جدّد, and اجدّهُ, and ↓ استجدّهُ, He originated, or innovated, the thing, or affair; or did it newly, or for the first time (Msb.) And الوُضُوْءَ ↓ جدّد (tropical:) [He renewed the ablution termed وضوء], and العَهْدَ (tropical:) [the compact, or contract, or covenant, &c.]. (TA.) ― -b2- اجدّ فُلَانٌ أَمْرَهُ بِذٰلِكَ Such a one established, or settled, firmly his affair, or case, thereby, or therein: so says As, and he cites the following verse: " أَجَدَّ بِهَا أَمْرًا وَأَيْقَنَ أَنَّهُ لَهَا أَوْخْرَي كَالطَّحِينَ تُرَابُهَا " [He established, or settled, firmly his case thereby, or therein, and knew certainly that he was for it, (app. meaning a war, or battle, حَرْب, which is fem.,) or for another whereof the dust would be like flour]: Aboo-Nasr says, It has been related to me that he said, اجدَ بها امرًا means اجدّ أَمْرَهُ بِهَا; [and so this phrase is explained in the K;] but the former explanation I heard from himself: (L:) or this phrase means أَجَدَّ أَمْرُهُ بِهَا [so in two copies of the S, app., (assumed tropical:) his affair, or case, became easy, or practicable, thereby, like ground termed جَدَد, which is easy to walk, or travel, upon; see the next sentence]; امر being put in the accus. case as a specificative, like عَيْنًا in the phrase قَرِرْتُ بِهِ عَيْنًا, meaning قَرَّتْ بِهِ عَيْنِى. (S.) -A3- اجدّ also signifies It (a road) was, or became, what is termed جَدَد [i. e. hard, or level, &c.]. (S, K.) And اجدّت لَكَ الأَرْضُ The ground hath become to thee free from soft places, and clear to thy view. (TA.) ― -b2- Also He walked along, or traversed, what is termed جَدَد. (K.) And اجدّ القَوْمُ The people, or company of men, came to what is so termed: (S:) and ascended upon the surface (جَدِيد) of the ground: or went upon sand such as is termed جَدَد. (TA.) -A4- See also 1, in three places.
  • تجدّد Form V It became cut, or cut off
    [originally It became cut, or cut off. ― -b2- And hence,] It (an udder) lost, or became devoid of, its milk: (S, K:) and [in like manner] ↓ جُدَّ, aor. يُجَدُّ, inf. n. جَدَدٌ, it, (a breast, and an udder,) became dry. (A Heyth, TA.) ― -b3- Hence also, [It was newly made; as though newly cut off from the web;] said of a garment: (TA:) and it (a thing, S, A) became new: (S, A, K:) and it (a thing, or an affair,) originated; was originated, or innovated; or was done newly, or for the first time: and sometimes ↓ استجدّ is used intransitively [in the same senses]. (Msb.) [Also (assumed tropical:) It (an action, as, for instance, ablution, and a compact, or the like,) was renewed. See جَدَّدَ as syn. with أَجَدَّ.]
  • إِسْتَجْدَ3َ Form X Open entry
    see 4, in two places: -A2- and see also 5.
  • جَدٌّ Fortune
    Fortune, or particularly good fortune, syn. حَظٌّ, (S, A, Mgh, L, K,) and بَخْتٌ, (S, A, L, K,) in the world, or in wordly circumstances; (TA;) advance in the world, or in worldly circumstances: (Mgh:) pl. [of mult.] جُدُودٌ (S) and [of pauc.] أَجْدَادٌ and أَجُدٌّ. (TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ ذُو جَدٍّ فِى كَذَا Such a one is possessed of good fortune in such a thing. (L.) And it is said in a trad. respecting the day of resurrection, وَإِذَا أَصْحَابُ الجَدِّ مَحْبُوسُونَ And lo, the people who were possessed of good fortune and riches in the world were imprisoned. (L.) And in a prayer, (L,) لَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الجَدِّ مِنْكَ الجَدُّ The good worldly fortune of him who is possessed of such fortune will not profit him, (Mgh, L,) in the world to come, (L,) in lieu of Thee; (Mgh, L; *) i. e., of obedience to Thee: (Mgh, and Mughnee in art. مِنْ:) or in lieu of the good fortune that cometh from Thee: or, as some say, will not defend him from Thee. (Mughnee ubi suprà. [See also another explanation below.]) Hence, أَجَدَّكَ لَا تَفْعَلْ [or أَجَدِّكَ]; and, accord. to some, وَجَدِّكَ: see جِدٌّ. ― -b2- One's lot in life; and the means of subsistence that one receives from the bounty of God. (L, K.) One says, لِفُلَانٍ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ جَدٌّ Such a one has in this thing, or state of affairs, means of subsistence. (A'Obeyd, L.) ― -b3- Richness; competence, or sufficiency; or the state of being in no need, or of having no wants, or of having few wants. (S, L, Msb.) لا ينفع ذا الجدّ منك الجدّ, [explained above, is said to mean] Riches, &c., will not profit the possessor thereof with Thee; for nothing will profit him but acting in obedience to Thee: منك here signifies عِنْدَكَ. (S, Msb.) ― -b4- Greatness, or majesty; (Mujáhid, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) accord. to some, specially of God: (TA:) so in the Kur lxxii. 3: (S, TA:) or his freedom from all wants or the like; syn. غِنًى. (S.) Hence, تَعَالَى جَدُّكَ, (Mgh, TA,) in a trad. respecting prayer, (TA,) Exalted be thy greatness, or majesty. (Mgh, * TA.) ― -b5- See also أَجَدَّكَ, as an interrogative phrase, voce جِدٌّ. -A2- Also, (S, K,) and ↓ مَجْدُودٌ, (S, A, Mgh, K,) and ↓ جَدِيدٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ جَدِّيٌّ, (S,) and ↓ جُدٌّ, and ↓ جُدِّيٌّ, the last two with damm, (K,) applied to a man, Fortunate; or possessed of good fortune; (S, A, Mgh, Msb;) or possessed of good worldly fortune: (TA:) or possessing great fortune, or great good fortune: (K:) [the words here given from the S are there coupled with synonyms of the same form, thus; ↓ جَدِيدٌ حَظِيظٌ, and مَحْظُوظٌ ↓ مَجْدُودق, and جَدٌّ حَظُّ, and حَظِّىٌّ ↓ جَدِّيٌّ; on the authority of ISk:] ↓ جُدٌّ, with damm, as an epithet applied to a man, is said by Sb to be syn. with مَجْدُودٌ; and its pl. is جُدٌّونَ only. (L.) -A3- Also جَدُّ, A grandfather; the father's father, and the mother's father: (S, Msb, K:) and (assumed tropical:) a higher ascendant; an ancestor: (Msb:) and ↓ جَدَّةٌ a grandmother; the father's mother, and the mother's mother: (K:) [and (assumed tropical:) a female ancestor:] pl. of the former, أَجْدَادٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and جُدُودٌ and جُدُودَةٌ: (K:) and of the latter, جَدَّاتٌ. (TA.) Hence, accord. to some, وَجَدِّكَ لَا تَفْعَلْ: see جِدٌّ. -A4- See also جُدَّةٌ: ― -b2- and see جَدِيدٌ.
  • جُدٌّ side
    : see جَدٌّ, in two places. -A2- See also جُدَّةٌ. ― -b2- Also The side (جَانِب) of anything. (K.) -A3- And A well in a place where is much herbage, or pasture: (S, Msb, K:) a well abounding with water; (K;) [and] so ↓ جُدْجُدٌ; (KL;) but A'Obeyd says that this is not known: (L:) and, contr., a well containing little water: a scanty water, or water little in quantity: a water at the extremity of a [desert such as is called] فَلَاة: (K:) an old water: (Th, K:) an old well: (KL:) pl. (in all these senses, TA) أَجْدَادٌ. (Msb, TA.)
  • جِدٌّ Seriousness, or earnestness, contr. of هَزْلٌ
    [accord. to some an inf. n., but accord. to others a simple subst., (see جَدَّ,)] Seriousness, or earnestness, contr. of هَزْلٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) in speech. (Msb.) Hence, ثَلَاثٌ جِدُّهُنَّ جِدٌّ وَهَزْلُهُنَّ جِدٌّ [There are three things in relation to which what is serious is serious and what is jesting is serious]: a saying of Mohammad, whereby he forbade a man's divorcing and emancipating and marrying and then retracting, saying “ I was jesting; ” as was customary in the time of paganism. (Msb.) أَجِدَّكَ and ↓ أَجَدَّكَ signify the same; (S;) but the former is the more chaste; (TA;) جِدّ and جَدّ being thus used only as prefixed nouns: (S, K:) As says that the meaning is, أَبِجِدٍّ مِنْكَ هٰذَا [Does this proceed from thee in seriousness, or in earnest?]; and that جِدّ is put in the accus. case because of the rejection of the [prep.] ب: AA says that the meaning is, مَا لَكَ أَجِدًّا مِنْكَ [What aileth thee? Doth it proceed from thee in seriousness, or in earnest?]; and that جدّ is put in the accus. case as an inf. n.: Th says that the phrase as it occurs in poetry is أَجِدَّكَ, with kesr: (S:) but when it occurs with وَ [in the place of أَ, or with أَ in the sense of وَ, as a particle denoting an oath,] it is ↓ وَجَدِّكَ [or أَجَدِّكَ], with fet-h: (S, K:) yon say, وَجَدِّكَ لَا تَفْعَلْ, (K, in the CK وَجَدَّكَ,) meaning, By thy grandfather, do not [such a thing]: or by thy fortune, or good fortune, do not: (TA:) also, when you say, أَجِدَّكَ لَا تَفْعَلْ, [or أَجِدِّكَ, for أَ (q. v.) is substituted for a particle of swearing, as in أَللّٰهِ لَأَفْعَلَنَّ,] the meaning is, I adjure thee by thy truth, (Lth, K,) and by thy seriousness, or earnestness, (Lth, TA,) do not: and when you say, لَا تَفْعَلْ ↓ أَجَدَّكَ, [or أَجَدِّكَ,] the meaning is, I adjure thee by thy fortune, or good fortune, do not: (Lth, K:) Aboo- 'Alee Esh-Shalowbeenee asserts that it implies the signification of an oath. (MF.) In the phrase اجدّك لا تَفْعَلُ, AAF says, we may consider لا تفعل as put in the place of a denotative of state; or the phrase may be originally اجدّك أَنْ لَا تَفْعَلَ, ان being suppressed, and its government annulled: [therefore it may be rendered, in the former case, Is it with seriousness on thy part, thou doing such a thing? and in the latter case, Is it with seriousness on thy part that thou will not do such a thing? i. e. dost thou mean seriously that thou will not do it? or in this case, اجدّك may be used as a form of adjuration in one of the senses explained above, and لَا تَفْعَلُ may mean, that thou do not such a thing; or اجدّك may mean وَجَدَّكَ, (explained above, and so in the three exs. below,) and لَا تَفْعَلُ, thou wilt not do it:] and, as AHei says, there is here a nice point, which is this; that the noun [meaning the pronoun] to which جدّ is prefixed should agree in person with the verb which follows it; so that one should say, اجدِّى لَا أُكْرِمُكَ, and اجدّكَ لَا تَفْعَلُ, and اجدّهُ لَا يَزُورُنَا; because جدّ is an inf. n. corroborating the proposition that follows it. (MF.) ― -b2- Also, [and in this case, likewise, accord. to some an inf. n., but accord. to others a simple subst., (see, again, جَدَّ,)] A striving, labour, or toil; exertion of one's self, or of one's power or efforts or endeavours or ability; vigorousness, strenuousness, laboriousness, diligence, studiousness, sedulousness, earnestness, or energy; painstaking, or extraordinary painstaking; (S, L, Msb, K;) in affairs, (S,) or in an affair. (Msb, K.) Hence, جِدًّا [meaning In a great, or an extraordinary, degree; greatly, much, exceedingly, or extraordinarily; very; very greatly, or very much; extremely]; as in the phrase, (Msb,) فُلَانٌ مُحْسِنٌ جِدًّا [Such a one is beneficent in a great, or an extraordinary, degree; very, exceedingly, or extremely, beneficent]: you should not say جَدًّا. (S, Msb. * [In my copy of the Msb, it is محسن جدّا بالفتح: but the context shows that there is an omission here, and that, after جدّا, we should read, as in the S, وَلَا تَقُلْ جَدًّا.]) جِدًّا [in a phrase of this kind] is put in the accus. case as an inf. n. [of which the verb is understood; so that, in the ex. given above, the proper meaning is, يَجِدُّ فِى الإِحْسَانِ جِدًّا striving in beneficence with a great striving]; because it is not from the same root as the preceding word, nor is it identical with it [in meaning]. (L.) You say also, فِى هٰذَا خَطَرٌ جِدَّ عَظِيمٍ, meaning عَظِيمٌ جِدًّا [(assumed tropical:) In this is a very, or an extremely, great danger, or risk]. (S.) And هٰذا العَالِمُ جِدَّ العَالِمِ This is the learned man, the extremely [or the very] learned man. (L.) And هٰذَا عَالِمٌ جِدَّ عَالِمٍ This is a learned man, an extremely [or a very] learned man. (L, * K.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) Haste. (S, L, K, TA.) So in the phrase فُلَانٌ عَلَى جِدِّ أَمْرٍ (tropical:) Such a one is in haste in an affair. (S, L, TA.) -A2- Also Executed seriously, or in earnest, [in which there is no jesting,] and excessive; syn. مُحَقَّقٌ مُبَالَغٌ فِيهِ [meaning مُحَقَّقٌ فِيهِ وَمُبَالَغٌ فِيهِ; (see جَدَّ فِى أَمْرِهِ;) جِدٌّ thus used as an epithet having an intensive signification because it is originally an inf. n., or as some say, a simple subst.]: (L, K:) applied in this sense to a punishment: (L:) and also applied to a pace. (K in art. نص.) -A3- See also جُدَّةٌ: ― -b2- and see جَدِيدٌ.
  • جَدَّةٌ Open entry
    : see جَدٌّ, near the end of the paragraph.
  • جُدَّةٌ bank, or side
    The bank, or side, or a river; as also جِدَّةٌ and ↓ جِدٌّ (IAth, L, K) and ↓ جُدٌّ (IAth, Mgh, L) and ↓ جَدٌّ, (Mgh, L, K,) accord. to some, but correctly جُدٌّ; so called because cut off from the river, or because cut by the water, in like manner as it is called سَاحِلٌ because it is abraded by the water: (Mgh:) or the part of a river that is near the land; as also ↓ جِدَّةٌ: (L:) and the shore of the sea: (MF:) accord. to As, جدّة is an arabicized word from the Nabathean كدّ. (L.) ― -b2- The stripe, or streak, that is on the back of the ass, differing from his general colour. (S, A, * K.) And (tropical:) A streak (Fr, S, K, TA) in anything, (TA,) as in a mountain, (Fr, S,) differing in colour from the rest of the mountain, (S,) white and black and red; (Fr, TA;) as also in the sky: (A, TA:) pl. جُدَدٌ, (Fr, S,) occurring in the Kur xxxv. 25; (S;) where some read جُدُدٌ, pl. of ↓ جديدة [app. جَدِيدَةٌ], which is syn. with جُدَّةٌ; and some, جَدَدٌ [q. v.]. (Bd.) ― -b3- A sign, or mark, syn. عَلَامَةٌ, (Th, K,) of, or in, anything. (Th, TA.) ― -b4- A beaten way, marked with lines [cut by the feet of the men and beasts that have travelled along it]: (Az, L:) or a road, or way: pl. جُدَدٌ: (Msb:) and جُدُودٌ, also, [app. another pl. of جُدَّةٌ,] signifies paths, or tracks, forming lines upon the ground. (Az, L.) See also جَادَّةٌ. ― -b5- [Hence, app., but accord. to the S from the same word as signifying “a streak,”] رَكِبَ جُدَّةً مِنَ الأَمْرِ, (S, A, TA,) or جُدَّةَ الأَمْرِ, (K,) (tropical:) He set upon a way, or manner, of performing the affair: (A:) or he formed an opinion respecting the affair, or case. (Zj, S, A, K.) ― -b6- See also جِدَّةٌ.
  • جِدَّةٌ A rag; or piece torn off from a garment
    : see جُدَّةٌ, in two places: ― -b2- and see جَدِيدٌ. ― -b3- Also A rag; or piece torn off from a garment; and so ↓ جُدَّةٌ: thus in the saying, مَا عَلَيْهِ جِدَّةٌ and جُدَّةٌ [There is not upon him a rag]. (K.) ― -b4- A collar upon the neck of a dog: (Th, L, K:) pl. جُدَدٌ [like لُحًى pl. of لِحْيَةٌ, or perhaps a mistake for جِدَدٌ]. (L.)

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