جَامِدٌ

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جَامِدٌ , applied to water, &c., [i. e.] anything fluid, or liquid, In a state of congelation, concretion, or solidity; freezing; as also جَمْدٌ ; contr. of ذَائِبٌ: you say مَآءٌ جَمْدٌ [as well as مَآءٌ جَامِدٌ]: or جَمْدٌ signifies what is congealed, or frozen, of water [&c.]; ice; contr. of ذَوْبٌ: [see also جَمَدٌ:] it is originally an Verbal.Noun: [or it is an epithet from جَمُدَ, like ضَخْمٌ from ضَخُمَ:] and جَمَدٌ is a pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of جَامِدٌ, like as خَدَمٌ is of خَادِمٌ: you say, قَدْ كَثُرَ الجَمَدُ [The frozen waters have become many]. [Hence,] مُخَّةٌ جَامِدَةٌ A hard piece of marrow.
2 Remaining fixed, stationary, or motionless.
3 A thing that does not grow, or increase; [incapable of growth, or increase; inanimate;] as stone, in contradistinction to a tree [and an animal]. [See also جَمَادٌ.] You say, لَكَ جَامِدُ هٰذَا المَالِ وَذَائِبُهُ 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: or what consists of stones, thereof, and what consists of trees, thereof: or what is solid, thereof, and what is fluid, or liquid, thereof.
4 [Hence its application in lexicology and grammar to A noun that is not an Verbal.Noun nor derived from an Verbal.Noun; 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 a verb that has but one tense and no Verbal.Noun, as لَيْسَ and نِعْمَ &c., opposed (as is said in the TA voce قَدْ) to مُتَصَرِّفٌ: it may be rendered , in these cases, aplastic.]
5 Lifeless; dead.
6 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.
7 It is also applied to a man's state, or condition: you say رَجُلٌ جَامِدُ الحَالِ [A man in a stagnant, or unimproving, state or condition].
8 And to the eye: you say عَيْنٌ جَامِدَةٌ An eye that sheds no tears; as also جُمَادَى , and جَمُودٌ ; or this last signifies an eye that sheds few tears. And رَجُلٌ جَامِدُ العَيْنِ, and العين, and العين, A man whose eye sheds few tears; or whose eye sheds no tears.
9 See also جَمَادٌ.
10 Also, and مُجْمِدٌ , and الكَفِّ, Niggardly, penurious, or avaricious; niggardly of that which it is incumbent on him to give: and مُجْمِدٌ , also, a man of little, or no, good; possessing little, or no, good.

def.2 جَوَامِدُ, Limits, or boundaries, or boundary-marks, between lands, and between two dwellings.

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