جمد

جَامِدٌ جامد , applied to water, (Msb, K,) &c., (Msb,) [i. e.] anything fluid, or liquid, (K,) In a state of congelation, concretion, or solidity; freezing; as also ↓ جَمْدٌ; contr. of ذَائِبٌ: (Msb, K:) you say مَاآءٌ جَمْدٌ [as well as مَاآءٌ جَامِدٌ]: (Msb:) or ↓ جَمْدٌ signifies what is congealed, or frozen, of water [&c.]; ice; (S, A;) contr. of ذَوْبٌ: (S:) [see also جَمَدٌ:] it is originally an inf. n.: (S, Msb, K:) [or it is an epithet from جَمُدَ, like ضَخْمٌ from ضَخُمَ:] and ↓ جَمَدٌ is a pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of جَامِدٌ, (S, Msb, K,) like as خَدَمٌ is of خَادِمٌ: (S, Msb:) you say, قَدْ كَثُرَ الجَمَدُ [ The frozen waters have become many ]. (S.) [Hence,] مُخَّةٌ جَامِدَةٌ A hard piece of marrow. (L.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Remaining fixed, stationary, or motionless. (Bd and Jel in xxvii. 90.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A thing that does not grow, or increase; [ incapable of growth, or increase; inanimate; ] as stone, in contradistinction to a tree [and an animal]. (Kull.) [See also جَمَادٌ.] You say, لَكَ جَامِدُ هٰذَا المَالِ وَذَائِبُهُ (A, L, K *) (tropical:) To thee belongs, or shall belong, what consists of gold and silver [ or the like inanimate things ], of this property, and what consists of live stock, thereof: (L, K:) or what consists of stones, thereof, and what consists of trees, thereof: or what is solid, thereof, and what is fluid, or liquid, thereof. (L.) ― -b4- [Hence its application in lexicology and grammar to (assumed tropical:) A noun that is not an inf. n. nor derived from an inf. n.; a noun having the quality of a real substantive (اِسْمِ عَيْنٍ), opposed to that which has the quality of an ideal substantive (اِسْمُ مَعْنًى): and (assumed tropical:) a verb that has but one tense and no inf. n., as لَيْسَ and نِعْمَ &c., opposed (as is said in the TA voce قَدْ) to مُتَصَرِّفٌ: it may be rendered (and so I have rendered it), in these cases, aplastic. ] ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Lifeless; dead. (Kull p. 147.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) Stupid, dull, wanting in intelligence; inert; not sharp, penetrating, vigorous, or effective, in the performing of affairs; or soft, without strength or sturdiness, and without endurance. (TA.) ― -b7- It is also applied to a man's state, or condition: you say رَجُلٌ جَامِدُ الحَالِ (assumed tropical:) [ A man in a stagnant, or unimproving, state or condition ]. (S, L.) ― -b8- And to the eye: you say عَيْنٌ جَامِدَةٌ (assumed tropical:) An eye that sheds no tears; (Ks, K;) as also ↓ جُمَادَى, (Ks, K,) and ↓ جَمُودٌ; (S, K;) or this last signifies (tropical:) an eye that sheds few tears. (A.) And رَجُلٌ جَامِدُ العَيْنِ, (A, K,) and العين ↓ جَمِيدُ, and العين ↓ جَمَادُ, (A,) (tropical:) A man whose eye sheds few tears; (A;) or whose eye sheds no tears. (K.) ― -b9- See also جَمَادٌ. ― -b10- Also, (L,) and ↓ مُجْمِدٌ, (M, A, K,) and الكَفِّ ↓ جَمَادُ, (A, K,) (tropical:) Niggardly, penurious, or avaricious; (M, A, K;) niggardly of that which it is incumbent on him to give: (L:) and ↓ مُجْمِدٌ, also, a man of little, or no, good; possessing little, or no, good. (K.) -A2- جَوَامِدُ, (as its pl., IAar, L,) Limits, or boundaries, or boundary-marks, between lands, (IAar, L, K, *) and between two dwellings. (L.)