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الجرض

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of swallowing, often with difficulty or obstruction, leading to related meanings of choking, being overwhelmed, or experiencing distress. It also extends to descriptions of intensity, strength, and voraciousness.

Derived headwords

الجَرَضnoun
  1. 1.
    salivaboth

    The saliva or spit in the mouth.

جَرَضَverb
  1. 1.
    to swallow with difficultyboth

    To swallow something with great effort, often accompanied by distress or hesitation.

  2. 2.
    to chokeboth

    To cause someone to choke or feel suffocated.

جَرِضَverb
  1. 1.
    to chokeboth

    To be choked or to feel a blockage in the throat.

أجْرَضَverb
  1. 1.
    to make chokeboth

    To cause someone to choke or be choked by their saliva.

الجَرِيضnoun
  1. 1.
    distressed personboth

    A person who is sad, worried, or overwhelmed with grief.

  2. 2.
    obstacleclassical

    Something that prevents or hinders an action or progress.

الجِرْياضnoun
  1. 1.
    distressed personboth

    A plural form referring to people who are sad, worried, or overwhelmed with grief.

الجُرْآضnoun
  1. 1.
    distressed personboth

    A plural form referring to people who are sad, worried, or overwhelmed with grief.

الجَرْوَاضadjective
  1. 1.
    strong and toughboth

    Describing someone or something as robust, strong, and severe.

  2. 2.
    voraciousboth

    Describing an animal, particularly a lion, as intensely powerful and fierce.

الجَرَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    lionboth

    A name for a lion, emphasizing its strength and ferocity.

الجَرِيضadjective
  1. 1.
    strong and toughboth

    Describing someone or something as robust, strong, and severe.

  2. 2.
    lion-likeboth

    Describing someone or something with qualities of a lion, such as fierceness or strength.

الجِرْياضadjective
  1. 1.
    strong and toughboth

    Describing someone or something as robust, strong, and severe.

  2. 2.
    lion-likeboth

    Describing someone or something with qualities of a lion, such as fierceness or strength.

جَرُوضadjective
  1. 1.
    gentle with youngboth

    Describing a female camel that is tender and gentle with her offspring.

الجَرِيضname
  1. 1.
    a male given nameclassical

    A proper name of a person, specifically a hadith narrator.

جَرَضَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to strangleboth

    To choke or strangle someone.

جَرَائِضadjective
  1. 1.
    voracious eaterboth

    Describing a male camel that eats a lot and aggressively seizes trees with its teeth.

Parallel reading

الجَرَضُ، محركة: الريق
Al-jaradh, with vowel markings: saliva.
جَرَضَ بريقه، كفرح: ابتلعه بالجهد على هم
He swallowed his saliva with difficulty, with distress.
وأجرضه بريقه: أغصه
And his saliva choked him: it made him choke.
حال الجريض دون القريض
Distress prevented poetry.
يضرب لأمر يعوق دونه عائق
It is used for a matter that is hindered by an obstacle.
والجريض: المغموم
And al-jaridh: the distressed one.
كالجرياض والجرآض، بكسرهما ج: جرضى
Like al-jaradiyadh and al-juraadh, with their kasra: jaradha (plural).
والجرواض: الغليظ الشديد، والأسد
And al-jarwad: the strong and severe, and the lion.
كالجراض، ككتاب، والجرئض، كعلبط وعلابط، والجرياض فيهما
Like al-jaradh, like kitāb, and al-jari'adh, like 'albat and 'alābit, and al-jaradiyadh in both.
وناقة جراض، بالضم: لطيفة بولدها
And a female camel, juradh, with damma: tender with her young.
وعبد الله بن الجرئض، كعلبط: محدث
And Abdullah bin al-jari'adh, like 'albat: a hadith narrator.
وجرضه: خنقه
And he strangled him: he choked him.
وجمل جرائض: أكول، شديد القصل بأنيابه للشجر
And a camel, jara'idh: a voracious eater, aggressively seizing trees with its teeth.