يَهُودُ

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يَهُودُ and اليَهُودُ and الهُودُ [the second of which is the most common,] signify the same, A certain tribe; [namely, the Jews:] يَهُودُ is said by some to be originally يَهُوذُ, and arabicized by the change of ذ into د; but ISd disapproves of this assertion: others say, that it is from هَادَ “ he repented: ” it is imperfectly decl., because it is a proper name and of the measure of a verb; and [of the fem. gen., as it is said to be in the S and L,] because it means a قَبِيلَة: but it is allowable to prefix to it the art. ال, and to say اليَهُودُ: this, however, is allowable only on the ground of its being, with the art. prefixed, for اليَهُودِيُّونَ; for it is of itself determinate: [thus] يَهُودُ is [as it were] pl. of يَهُودِىٌّ ; which is the rel. n. of يهود, or, accord. to Sgh, of يَهُودَا [or Judah], thus written by him with the unpointed د in this instance, the son of يَعْقُوب [or Jacob]: يَهُودُ has يَهْدَانٌ as a pl.: this pl. occurs in a poem of Hassán: Fr, says, of هُودًا, in the Kur, ii, 105, that it is for يَهُودًا [app. a mistake for يَهُودَ]; or that it may be pl. of هَائِدٌ.

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