جَوْدٌ
Root: جود
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جَوْدٌ
Copious, or abundant, rain; as also
جَائِدٌ : or rain that thoroughly irrigates everything: or rain that is not exceeded: accord. to some, who observe that the phrase, mentioned by Sb, أَخَذْتَنَا
بِالجَوْدِوَفَوْقهَا [Thou hast assailed us with a storm of reproach or the like not to be exceeded, and with that which is above it,] is one of hyperbole and reproach. It is an Verbal.Noun thus used as an epithet [and therefore applicable without variation to a fem. as to a masc. n., and to a dual and a pl. as to a sing. n.]: and is also pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of جَائِدٌ, like as صَحْبٌ is of صَاحِبٌ. You say مَطَرٌ جَوْدٌ [A copious, or an abundant, rain; &c.]: and سَحَابَةٌ جَوْدٌ [A cloud yielding a copious, or an abundant, rain; &c.]: and هَاجَتْ
لَنَا سَمَآءٌ جَوْدٌ [A copious, or an abundant, rain, &c., became stirred up for us]: and you also say, [contr. to the usage mentioned above, or as though جَوْدٌ were an epithet from جَادَ, and this originally جَوْدَ, like ضَخْمٌ from ضَخُمَ, but used as a subst.,] مَطْرَتَانِ جَوْدَانِ [Two showers of rain, copious, or abundant, &c.].
, [app. signifying the same as جَوْدٌ used as a pl.,] occurring in the following verse of Sakhr El-Ghei,
2 See also جَوَادٌ.
[Its dust makes sport with the wind in the morning and evening, or night and day, and so do the violent showers of big drops, and the pouring of copious, or abundant, rains, &c.], is a pl. having no sing.; or it may be so, like تَعَاجِيبُ and تَعَاشِيبُ and تَبَاشِيرُ; or it may be pl. of تَجْوَادٌ [an Verbal.Noun]. You say also, أَصَابَتْهُ امَطَرِ [Copious showers of rain fell upon him, or it].يُلَاعِبُ الرِّيحَ بِالعَصْرَيْنِ قَصْطَلُهُ وَالوَابِلُونَ وَتَهْتَانُ التَّجَاوِيدِ
2 See also جَوَادٌ.
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