نَجْدٌ
Root: نجد
Full Definition
2 نَجْدٌ, and نَجُدٌ, the latter of the dial. of Hudheyl, of the masc. gender, [The high land, or country;] a division of the country of the Arabs; opposed to الغَوْرُ, [or the low country,] i. e., Tihámeh; all the high land from Tihámeh to the land of El-'Irák; above it are Tihámeh and El-Yemen, and below it El-'Irák and Esh-Shám; it begins, towards El-Hijáz, at Dhát-'Irk, and ends at Sawád of El-'Irák, and hence it is said to form no part of El-Hijáz: or it comprises all that is beyond the moat, or fosse, which Kisrà made to the Sawád of El-'Irák until one inclines to the Harrah (الحَرَّة), when he is in El-Hijáz; and it extends to the east of El-Ghowr, or El-Ghór; which is all the tract of which the torrents flow westwards: Tihámeh extends from Dhát-'Irk to the distance of two days' journey beyond Mekkeh: the tract beyond this, westward, is Ghowr, or Ghór; and beyond this, southwards, is Es-Saráh, as far as the frontiers of El-Yemen: or, as the Arabs of the desert have been heard to say, the country which one enters when, journeying upwards, he leaves behind him 'Ijliz, which is above El-Karyateyn, and which he quits when he descends from the mountain-roads of Dhát- 'Irk, where he enters Tihámeh, and when he meets with the stony tracts termed حِرَار in Nejd, where El-Hijáz commences: or the high country from Batn-er-Rummeh to the mountain-roads of Dhát-'Irk: or the country from El-'Odheyb to Dhát-'Irk, and to El-Yemámeh, and to El-Yemen, and to the two mountains of Teiyi, and from El-Mirbed to Wejreh: Dhât-'Irk is the beginning of Tihámeh, extending to the sea and Juddeh: El-Medeeneh is not of Tihámeh nor of Nejd, but of El-Hijáz, higher than El-Ghowr, or El-Ghór, and lower than Nejd.
3 نَجْدٌ An elevated road: or an elevated and conspicuous road. A road in a mountain. [Hence طَلَّاعُ الأَنْجُدِ, expl. below, and in art. طلع.]
4 هَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ [Kur, xc. 10] We have shown him the two ways; the way of good and that of evil: or the two conspicuous ways:
5 or We have given him the two breasts; for نَجْدٌ also signifies a woman's breast; the belly beneath it being like the [country called] غَوْر.
6 أَمَا وَنَجْدَيْهَا مَا فَعَلْتَ ذٰلِكَ Now, by her two breasts, didst thou not that? A form of oath of the Arabs.
7 نَجْدٌ and نَاجِدٌ A thing, or an affair, apparent, manifest, plain, or evident.
8 هُوَ طَلَّاعُ أَنْجُدٍ, and طلّاع أَنْجِدَةٍ, and طلّاع نِجَادٍ, and الأَنْجُدِ, (K, art. طلع,) and النِجَادِ,
def.2 نَجْدٌ, sing. of نُجُودٌ and of نِجَادٌ, which signify The articles of household farniture and the like (متاع) with which a house or tent (بيت) is ornamented, or decorated; the carpets and beds or other things that are spread, and the pillows, used for that purpose: the cloths or stuffs used for this purpose, with which the walls are hung, and which are spread; the curtains which are hung upon the walls: and أَنْجَادٌ, pl. of نَجْدٌ, household furniture, consisting of such things as are spread, and pillows, and curtains.
def.3 نَجْدٌ A skilful, or an expert, guide of the way.
def.4 نَجْدٌ, or نُجُدٌ , A place in which are no trees.
def.5 نَجْدٌ A kind of tree resembling the شُبْرُم in its colour and manner of growth and its thorns.
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