جَرَادٌ

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جَرَادٌ [a coll. gen. n., Locusts; the locust; a kind of insect] well known: so called from stripping the ground, i. e., eating what is upon it: n. un. with جراد: applied alike to the male and the female: جرادة is not the masc. of بَقَرٌ, but is a [coll.] gen. n.; these two words being like بَقَرٌ and بَقَرَةٌ, andتَمْرٌ and تَمْرَةٌ, and حَمَامٌ and حَمَامَةٌ, &c.: it is therefore necessary that the masc. should be [in my copies of the S, “should not be,” but this is corrected in the margin of one of those copies,] of the same form as the fem., lest it should be confounded with the pl. [or rather the collective form]: but some say that جراد is the masc.; and جرادة, the fem.; and the saying رَأَيَتُ جَرَادًا عَلَى جَرَادَةٍ [as meaning I saw a male locust upon a female locust], like رَأَيْتُ نَعَامًا عَلَى نَعَامَةٍ, is cited: it is first called سِرْوَةٌ; then, دَبًى; then, غَوْغَآءُ; then, خَيْفَانٌ; then, كُِتْفَانٌ; and then, جراد: As says that when the males become yellow and the females become black, they cease to have any name but جراد. [Hence,] اِبْنُ الجَرَادِ, (T in art. بنى) or ابن الجَرَادَةِ The egg of the locust.
2 مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ جَرَادٍ عَارَهُ, or أَىُّ الجَرَادِ, I know not what man, or what thing, took him, or it, away.

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