جُرُزٌ

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جُرُزٌ , and جُرْزٌ , and جَرَزٌ , and جَرْزٌ , and مَجْرُوزَةٌ , Land in which is no herbage; as though the herbage or the rain were cut off from it: or from which the water is cut off, so that it is dried up and without herbage: or dried up, producing no herbage: or of which the herbage has been cut: or that produces no herbage: or of which the herbage has been eaten: or not rained upon: or, accord. to some of the expositions of the Kur, by the first is meant the land of El-Yemen: and by the second, accord. to El-'Otbee, [land] that takes, or receives, much water, and does not dry it up: and as to جَرْزٌ , it may be an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet, as though meaning ذَاتُ جَرْزٍ, i. e., of which the herbage has been eaten: also أَرْضٌ مَجْرُوزَةٌ is explained as signifying land of which the herbage has been consumed by the locusts or the sheep or goats or the camels or the like: and مَفَازَةٌ مِجْرَازٌ a barren desert: [see also جَارِزٌ:] the pl. of جُرْزٌ is جِرَزَةٌ, like as جِحَرَةٌ is pl. of جُحْرٌ; and that of جَرَزٌ is أَجْرَازٌ, like as أَسْبَابٌ is pl. of سَبَبٌ: and one says also أَرْضٌ أَجْرَازٌ, as well as أَرَضُونَ أَجْرَازٌ.

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