جَدٌّ
Root: جد
Full Definition
2 One's lot in life; and the means of subsistence that one receives from the bounty of God. One says, لِفُلَانٍ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ جَدٌّ Such a one has in this thing, or state of affairs, means of subsistence.
3 Richness; competence, or sufficiency; or the state of being in no need, or of having no wants, or of having few wants. لا ينفع ذا الجدّ منك الجدّ, [explained above, is said to mean] Riches, &c., will not profit the possessor thereof with Thee; for nothing will profit him but acting in obedience to Thee: منك here signifies عِنْدَكَ.
4 Greatness, or majesty; accord. to some, specially of God: so in the Kur lxxii. 3: or his freedom from all wants or the like; syn. غِنًى. Hence, تَعَالَى جَدُّكَ, in a trad. respecting prayer, Exalted be thy greatness, or majesty.
5 See also أَجَدَّكَ, as an interrogative phrase, voce جِدٌّ.
def.2 Also, and مَجْدُودٌ , and جَدِيدٌ , and , and جُدٌّ , and , the last two with damm, applied to a man, Fortunate; or possessed of good fortune; or possessed of good worldly fortune: or possessing great fortune, or great good fortune: [the words here given from the S are there coupled with synonyms of the same form, thus; جَدِيدٌ حَظِيظٌ, and مَحْظُوظٌ, and جَدٌّ حَظُّ, and حَظِّىٌّ; on the authority of ISk:] جُدٌّ , with damm, as an epithet applied to a man, is said by Sb to be syn. with مَجْدُودٌ; and its pl. is جُدٌّونَ only.
def.3 Also جَدُّ, A grandfather; the father's father, and the mother's father: and
def.4 See also جُدَّةٌ:
2 and see جَدِيدٌ.
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