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جَسَدٌ جسد The body, with the limbs or members, [or whole person,] of a human being, and of a jinnee (or genie), and of an angel: (El-Bári', L, Msb, K:) it is thus applied only to the body of a rational animal; (El-Bári', Msb;) to no body that is nourished with food except that of a human being; but to the body of every rational creature that neither eats nor drinks, such as the genii and the angels: (L:) [the genii, however, are commonly believed to eat and drink:] or, accord. to ISd, it seems to be applied to a body other than that of a human being tropically: (TA:) the [golden] calf of the Children of Israel cried, but did not eat nor drink; [wherefore it is termed جسد;] and in the Kur [vii. 146 and xx. 90], جَسَدًا is a substitute for عِجْلًا, or it may be meant for ذَا جَسَدٍ: (L:) [but see another explanation of جسدا, as there used, below:] or جَسَدٌ is syn. with بَدَنٌ [which is generally held to signify the body without the head and arms and legs]: (S, A:) the pl. is أَجْسَادٌ. (Lh, Msb, TA.) Lh mentions the saying, إِِنَّهَا لَحَسَنَةُ الأَجْسَادِ [Verily she is beautiful in respect of body]; as though the sing. of which the pl. is thus used were applied to every separate part. (TA.) -A2- Saffron; (S, Msb, K) as also ↓ جِسَادٌ : (Lth, IAar, ISk, S, A, Msb, K:) or a similar dye: (S:) and ↓ the latter signifies also a similar dye; (Lth, Msb,) red, or intensely yellow: (Lth, TA:) or bastard saffron; syn. عُصْفُرٌ; (Msb;) and so the former word. (L.) ― -b2- Also, (S, L, Msb, K,) and ↓جَسِدٌ (L, K) and ↓ جَاسِدٌ (L, Msb, K) and ↓ جَسِيدٌ (L, K) and ↓ جِسَادٌ , (R,) (assumed tropical:) Blood; (S;) as also ↓ مُجْسَدٌ , as being likened to saffron: (Ham p. 215:) or dry blood: (R, L, Msb, K:) pl. of the first as above. (Ham p. 127.) ― -b3- Some say that عِجْلًا جَسَدًا, in the Kur, [in two verses referred to above,] means A red golden calf. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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