جرض

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

The root جرض (jarada) primarily relates to the sensation of choking or being choked, particularly on one's own saliva, often associated with distress or grief. It extends to meanings of being overwhelmed, dying from sorrow, and physically large or bloated.

Derived headwords

الجَرَضnoun

1.
choking on salivaboth
The sensation of choking on one's own saliva, often due to distress.

جَرَضَverb

1.
to choke on salivaboth
To swallow one's saliva with difficulty, accompanied by worry and grief.
2.
to be on the verge of deathclassical
To be in a state of near death, as if one's life is about to end.

يجرض، مثال كسر يكسر — he chokes on his saliva

يجرض بنفسه — he is choking on his own (saliva), i.e., he is about to die

جَرِيضٌnoun

1.
choking sensationboth
The act or sensation of choking, especially on saliva.
2.
griefclassical
A state of deep sorrow or distress that causes a choking sensation.

جَرِيضًاadjective

1.
choked with griefclassical
Describing someone who is overwhelmed by sorrow, to the point of feeling choked.
2.
dyingclassical
In a state of death or near death, often due to intense emotion.

وأفلتهن علباء جريضا — and I let them escape, choked (with grief or near death)

أجْرَضَverb

1.
to make chokeboth
To cause someone to choke, particularly on their saliva.

أجرضه بريقه — he made him choke on his saliva

الجِرْيَاضnoun

1.
large-bellied personclassical
A person characterized by a large and protruding belly.

ما الجرياض؟ قال: الذي بطنه كالحياض — What is al-jiryāḍ? He said: One whose belly is like water basins.

الجَرْوَاضnoun

1.
large-bellied personclassical
A person characterized by a large and protruding belly.

جَرَائِضadjective

1.
large-belliedclassical
Describing a man with a large, prominent belly.

جَرِئْضٌadjective

1.
large-belliedclassical
Describing a man with a large, prominent belly.

نَعْجَةٌ جَرِئْضَةٌadjective

1.
large eweclassical
Describing a ewe that is large and robust.

نعجة جرئضة، مثال علبطة، أي ضخمة — a large ewe, like 'albiṭah, meaning huge.

Parallel reading

الجرض، بالتحريك: الريق يغص به.

Al-jarad, with harakah: saliva that one chokes on.

يقال: جرض بريقه يجرض، مثال كسر يكسر، وهو أن يبتلع ريقه على هم وحزن بالجهد.

It is said: jarada with his saliva yajrudu, like kasara yaksiru, which is to swallow one's saliva with effort due to worry and grief.

والجريض: الغصة، وفي المثل: " حال الجريض دون القريض ".

And al-jarīḍ: the choking sensation, and in the proverb: 'The choking sensation prevented the poetry.'

كأن الفتى لم يغن بالناس ليلة إذا اختلف اللحيان عند جريض

As if the young man had not been joyful with people for a night when the jaws parted in choking.

قال الاصمعي: يقال هو يجرض بنفسه، أي يكاد يقضي.

Al-Asma'i said: It is said he is yajrudu himself, meaning he is about to perish.

وأفلتهن علباء جريضا ولو أدركنه صفر الوطاب

And I let them escape, choked (with grief or near death), had they reached him, the waterskins would have been empty.

ومات فلان جريضا، أي مغموما.

And so-and-so died jarīḍan, meaning sorrowful.

وأجرضه بريقه، أي أغصه.

And he made him choke on his saliva, meaning he caused him to choke.

والجرياض والجرواض: الضخم العظيم البطن.

And al-jiryāḍ and al-jarwāḍ: the large-bellied, the greatly-bellied.

قلت لأعرابي: ما الجرياض؟ قال: الذي بطنه كالحياض.

I said to a Bedouin: What is al-jiryāḍ? He said: One whose belly is like water basins.

ويقال أيضا رجل جرائض وجرئض، مثال علابط وعلبط، حكاه أبو بكر ابن السراج.

And it is also said a man is jarā'iḍ and jarīḍ, like 'alābiṭ and 'alabaṭ, narrated by Abu Bakr Ibn Al-Siraj.

ونعجة جرئضة، مثال علبطة، أي ضخمة.

And a ewe is jarīḍah, like 'albiṭah, meaning huge.