أَمْرَدُ

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أَمْرَدُ .
2 شَجَرَةٌ مَرْدَآءُ A tree having no leaves upon it: or, of which the leaves have altogether gone: and in like manner, غُصْنٌ أَمْرَدُ a branch having no leaves upon it: or the latter expression is not used.
3 رَمْلَةٌ مَرْدَآءُ A sand that is plain and produces no plants: pl. مَرَادٍ, as though it were a subst.
4 أَرْضٌ مَرْدَآءُ An expanse of sands in which nothing grows: pl. مَرَادِى [or مَرَادِىُّ].
5 أَمْرَدُ A youth, or young man, as yet beardless: or having no hair upon his cheeks: or who has remained to a late period without the hair of his face having grown forth: or whose mustache has grown forth, but not his beard, he having attained the usual age at which the beard grows: pl. مُرْدٌ: dim. أُمَيْرِدُ. You do not apply the epithet مَرْدَآءُ to a girl [in the sense above explained]. It is said in a trad., أَهْلُ الجَنَّةِ جُرْدٌ مُرْدٌ [The people of paradise are without hair upon their bodies, and beardless].
6 مَرْدَآءُ A woman having no hair upon her pubes. [In some copies of the K, for لَا إِسْبَ لَهَا, we find لا است لها: and the like is found in copies of the A.]
7 أَمْرَدُ A horse having no hair upon the fetlock.

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