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نَجِدٌ

Root: نجد

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نَجِدٌ and نَجُدٌ and نَجِيدٌ and نَجْدٌ A courageous man, sharp, or vigorous and effective, in those affairs which others lack power or ability to accomplish: or courageous and strong: or very valiant: or quick in assenting to that which he is called or invited to do, whether it be good or evil: pl. of نَجُدٌ, أَنْجَادٌ, like as أَيْقَاظٌ is pl. of يَقُظٌ; or this is pl. of نَجْدٌ and نَجِدٌ; and not of نَجِيدٌ: the pl. of this last is نُجُدٌ and نُجَدَآءُ.
2 The lion: so called because of his courage.
3 نَجِدٌ فِى الحَاجَةِ A man quick in accomplishing that which is wanted, or needed.
4 نَجِدٌ and مَنْجُودٌ and نَجِيدٌ and نَاجِدٌ , in which last the ا is perhaps inserted by poetic licence, Sweating, by reason of work, or of sorrow, grief, or anxiety, &c. See also مَنْجُودٌ.
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