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جدس

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of hardness, dryness, and uncultivated land. It also refers to a specific ancient Arab tribe and the act of an اثر (track) becoming indistinct or worn away.

Derived headwords

الجادِسadjective
  1. 1.
    hard and dryclassical

    Describing something, especially land, that is hard, dry, and uncultivated.

جادسةadjective
  1. 1.
    uncultivated landclassical

    Referring to land that has not been inhabited, worked, or plowed.

الجَوَادِسnoun
  1. 1.
    uncultivated landsclassical

    The plural of 'جادسة', referring to lands that have never been cultivated or sown.

جدسverb
  1. 1.
    to become indistinctclassical

    Used to describe a track or trace that has become worn away, indistinct, or erased.

جديسname
  1. 1.
    ancient Arab tribeclassical

    The name of an ancient Arab tribe, often mentioned in conjunction with the tribe of Tasm. They were related to the 'Ad people and resided in Yamama.

Parallel reading

الجادس من كل شيء: ما اشتد ويبس كالجاسد.
The hard and dry of anything is that which is strong and withered, like the hardened.
وأرض جادسة: لم تعمر ولم تعمل ولم تحرث، من ذلك.
And an uncultivated land is one that has not been inhabited, worked, or plowed, deriving from this.
من كانت له أرض جادسة قد عرفت له في الجاهلية حتى أسلم فهي لربها.
Whoever had an uncultivated land that was known to be his in the pre-Islamic era, until he converted to Islam, then it belongs to its Lord.
هي التي لم تعمر ولم تحرث، والجمع الجوادس.
It is that which has not been inhabited or plowed, and its plural is 'al-jawadis'.
الجوادس الأراضي التي لم تزرع قط.
Al-jawadis are the lands that have never been sown.
جدس الأثر وطلق ودمس ودسم إذا درس.
A track becomes indistinct (jadasa), erased (talq), worn away (damasa), and worn away (dasama) when it is obliterated.
جديس حي من عاد وهم إخوة طسم.
Judays is a tribe from 'Ad, and they are the brothers of Tasm.
جديس حي من العرب كانوا يناسبون عادا الأولى وكانت منازلهم اليمامة؛
Judays is a tribe of Arabs who were related to the first 'Ad, and their dwellings were in Yamama;
بوار طسم بيدي جديس
The destruction of Tasm by the hands of Judays
جديس قبيلة كانت في الدهر الأول فانقرضت.
Judays was a tribe in the first era, and they became extinct.