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جَدَدٌ

Root: جد

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جَدَدٌ Hard ground: or hard level ground: [see also جَدْجَدٌ:] or rough level ground: or rough ground: or level ground: or a level and spacious tract of land; a tract such as is called صَحْرَآء, and such as is called فَضَآء, containing no soft place in which the feet sink, nor any mountain, nor any [hill such as is called] أَكَمَة; sometimes wide, and sometimes of little width: [and] a conspicuous road: pl. أَجْدَادٌ. It is said in a prov., مَنْ سَلَكَ الجَدَدَ أَمِنَ العِثَارَ [He who walks along hard, or hard and level, ground is secure from stumbling]; meaning, he who pursues the course marked out by common consent is secure from stumbling. And مَكَانٌ جَدَدٌ occurs in a trad., meaning Level ground.
2 See also جَدِيدٌ.
3 Also Sand that is thin, or fine, and sloping down.
4 And A thing resembling a سِلْعَة [or ganglion] in the neck of a camel.


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