جرد

جَرَادٌ جراد [a coll. gen. n., (tropical:) Locusts; the locust; a kind of insect ] well known: (S, Msb, K:) so called from stripping the ground, (A, Msb,) i. e., eating what is upon it: (Msb:) n. un. with جراد: (S, Msb:) applied alike to the male and the female: (S, Msb, K:) جرادة is not the masc. of بَقَرٌ, but is a [coll.] gen. n.; these two words being like بَقَرٌ and بَقَرَةٌ, andتَمْرٌ and تَمْرَةٌ, and حَمَامٌ and حَمَامَةٌ, &c.: it is therefore necessary that the masc. should be [in my copies of the S, “should not be,” but this is corrected in the margin of one of those copies,] of the same form as the fem., lest it should be confounded with the pl. [or rather the collective form]: (S:) but some say that جراد is the masc.; and جرادة, the fem.; and the saying رَأَيَتُ جَرَادًا عَلَى جَرَادَةٍ [as meaning I saw a male locust upon a female locust ], like رَأَيْتُ نَعَامًا عَلَى نَعَامَةٍ, is cited: (TA:) it is first called سِرْوَةٌ; then, دَبًى; then, غَوْغَاآءُ; then, خَيْفَانٌ; then, كُِتْفَانٌ; and then, جراد: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) As says that when the males become yellow and the females become black, they cease to have any name but جراد. (AHn, TA.) [Hence,] اِبْنُ الجَرَادِ, (T in art. بنى) or ابن الجَرَادَةِ (TA in that art.,) (assumed tropical:) The egg of the locust. (T and TA ubi suprà.) ― -b2- مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ جَرَادٍ عَارَهُ, (S, K,) or أَىُّ الجَرَادِ, (A, L,) (tropical:) I know not what man, (S, K,) or what thing, (A,) took him, or it, away. (S, A, K.)