أجرد

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Color or defect adjective from the root ج ر د (j-r-d).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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أَجْرَد (ʔajrad) (feminine جَرْدَاء (jardāʔ), common plural جُرْد (jurd))

  1. barren, bare of vegetation, without herbage
    • 2010, Fushigi Yugi (Arabic dub), episode 1, spoken by Miaka, published 2010:
      أَرْضٌ جَرْدَاء، لَا طَعَامَ وَلَا مَاء، يَا إِلٰهِي!
      ʔarḍun jardāʔ, lā ṭaʕāma walā māʔ, yā ʔilāhī!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. unarmed or unshielded, stripped of what could protect
  3. hairless, bald

Declension

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References

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  • أجرد” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أجرد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 264
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أجرد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 406
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “أجرد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 142
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أجرد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 175