جدب

جَدْبٌ جدب Drought, barrenness, or dearth; contr. of خِصْبٌ; (S;) i. q. مَحْلٌ, (A, Msb, K,) i. e. drought, or suspension of rain, and dryness of the earth; (Msb;) dryness and barrenness of the earth: (Har p. 576:) and ↓ جِدَبٌّ is a name, or subst., for الجَدْبٌ, (K, TA,) meaning المَحْلُ; as in the saying of the rájiz, cited by Sb, لَقَدْ خَشِيتُ أَنْ أَرَى جِدَبَّا فِى عَامِنَا بَعْدَ مَا أَخْصَبَّا [ Verily I feared to see drought, or barrenness, &c., in this our year, after it had been abundant in herbage ]; جِدَبَّا being used for الجَدْبَا; or, accord. to one reading, it is ↓ جَدْبَبَّا, with a doubled ب added; the change being made for the sake of the metre. (M, TA. [Respecting أَخْصَبَّا, see 4 in art. خصب.]) ― -b2- Also A place, (S, A, K,) or a country, or region, (Msb,) affected with drought, barrenness, or dearth; or with drought, and dryness of the earth; and so ↓ جَدِيبٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ جَدُوبٌ and ↓ مَجْدُوبٌ, (K,) the last derived from جُدِبَ though this verb has not been used, (TA,) and ↓ مُجْدِبٌ, (M, A,) of which the pl. is مَجَادِيبُ. (A.) You say also أَرْضٌ جَدْبٌ [in which جدب is an inf. n. (though app. obsolete as such) and therefore applicable to a fem. subst.] (ISd, TA) and جَدْبَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ جَدِبَةٌ (A, Msb) and ↓ جَدِيبٌ (Msb) and ↓ جَدُوبٌ (Lh, M, Msb) and ↓ مُجْدِبَةٌ, of which last the pl. is مَجَادِيبُ, (Msb,) A land affected with drought, &c.: (S, M, A, &c.:) and أَرْضُونَ جُدُوبٌ, (S, K,) as though to each part were applied the term جَدْبٌ [used as a subst.] from which is formed the pl. جُدُوبٌ, (TA,) and جَدْبٌ, (K,) which is here an inf. n. used as an epithet [and therefore applicable to a pl. subst.], (TA,) lands affected with drought, &c. (S, K.) And ↓ فَلَاةٌ جَدْبَاآءُ [fem. of أَجْدَبُ] (M, K) A desert affected with drought, &c.; (K;) in which is neither little nor much, neither pasture nor herbage. (M, TA.) And ↓ فُلَانٌ جَدِيبُ الجَنَابِ Such a one is environed by a tract affected with drought, &c. (S. [But this phrase is generally used tropically, as meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is ungenerous or illiberal or inhospitable. See art. جنب.]) And سَنَةٌ جَدْبَةٌ (K in art. جرز) and عَامٌ ↓ جَدُوبٌ (M, TA) [ A year of drought, &c.]. See also أَجَادِبُ, in two places. -A2- Also i. q. عَيْبٌ [ A vice, fault, defect, &c.]; (S, A, K;) a signification which may be either proper or tropical. (Er-Rághib, MF.)