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جَدَاعِ

Root: جدع

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جَدَاعِ and جَدَاعٌ A year of drought; because it cuts off, or destroys, (تَجْدَعُ,) the herbage, and abases men: or a severe, or calamitous, year, that destroys the camels or the like; or that destroys everything; as though it cut off its nose or the like.
2 See also جُدَاعٌ.
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