أجرد

Arabic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔad͡ʒ.rad/

Adjective

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

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

Declension

References

  • “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 (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 264
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “أجرد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, 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; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “أجرد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 175
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