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[ أَجْدَبُ ذ i. q. جَدْبٌ as syn. with جَدِيبٌ: fem. جَدْيَآءُ. Hence,] فَلَاةٌ جَدْيَآءُ: see جَدْبٌ. ― -b2- [Hence also,] سَنَةٌ جَدْبَآءُ A year of much snow. (L in art. شهب.) ― -b3- أَجْدَبُ is [also] said in the M to be [used as] a subst. applied to what is termed مُجْدِب [i. e. as syn. with the latter word used as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant; app. meaning A place, or the like, affected with drought, &c.]. (TA.) ― -b4- [Also, as a comparative and superlative epithet, meaning More, and most, affected with drought, &c.; contr. of أَخْصَبُ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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