جدى

جَدْىٌ جدي A kid: (S:) or a male kid; (IAmb, Msb, K;) the female being called عَنَاقٌ: (IAmb, Msb:) or a kid in his first year; (Mgh, Msb;) not yet a year old: (TA:) one should not say جِدْىٌ; (S;) this being a bad dial. var.: (Msb:) pl. (of pauc., TA, applied to three, S) أَجْدٍ (S, Msb, K) and (of mult., TA, applied to more than three, S) جِدَاآءٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جِدْيَانٌ: (K:) جَدَايَا [as pl. of جَدْى] is not allowable. (S.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened thereto, (M, TA,) الجَدْىُ (assumed tropical:) A certain star, (S, Msb, K,) [ the star a of Ursa Minor, commonly called the pole-star, ] that revolves with بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ, (K,) by the side of the [ north ] pole, by which the kibleh is known, (S,) or according to which the kibleh is turned; (Msb;) the bright star at the extremity of the tail of the Lesser Bear; (Kzw;) the star of the kibleh; (Mgh;) also called جَدْىُ الفَرْقَدِ; (Mgh, Msb;) and called by the astronomers ↓ الجُدَىُّ, in the dim. form, to distinguish it from what next follows. (Mgh, MF.) [See also القُطْبُ.] ― -b3- Hence also, (M, TA,) A certain sign of the Zodiac; (S, K;) [namely, Capricornus; ] the tenth of the signs of the Zodiac; (Mgh;) that next to the دَلْو; unknown to the Arabs [ of the classical times ]. (K.) This and the former together are called [the] جَدْيَانِ. (TA.) -A2- جَدْيَانِ is also an anomalous dual of جَدْوَى, q. v. (Lh, M, K.) -A3- See also what next follows.