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جَدْىBٌ جديB A kid: (S:) or a male kid; (IAmb, Msb, K;) the female being called عَنَاقٌ: (IAmb, Msb:) or a kid in his first year; (Mgh, Msb;) not yet a year old: (TA:) one should not say جِدْىBٌ; (S;) this being a bad dial. var.: (Msb:) pl. (of pauc., TA, applied to three, S) أَجْدٍ (S, Msb, K) and (of mult., TA, applied to more than three, S) جِدَآءٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جِدْيَانٌ: (K:) جَدَايَا [as pl. of جَدْى] is not allowable. (S.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened thereto, (M, TA,) الجَدْىBُ (assumed tropical:) A certain star, (S, Msb, K,) [the star a of Ursa Minor, commonly called the pole-star,] that revolves with بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ, (K,) by the side of the [north] pole, by which the kibleh is known, (S,) or according to which the kibleh is turned; (Msb;) the bright star at the extremity of the tail of the Lesser Bear; (Kzw;) the star of the kibleh; (Mgh;) also called جَدْىBُ الفَرْقَدِ; (Mgh, Msb;) and called by the astronomers ↓ الجُدَىُّ , in the dim. form, to distinguish it from what next follows. (Mgh, MF.) [See also القُطْبُ.] ― -b3- Hence also, (M, TA,) A certain sign of the Zodiac; (S, K;) [namely, Capricornus;] the tenth of the signs of the Zodiac; (Mgh;) that next to the دَلْو; unknown to the Arabs [of the classical times]. (K.) This and the former together are called [the] جَدْيَانِ. (TA.) -A2- جَدْيَانِ is also an anomalous dual of جَدْوَى, q. v. (Lh, M, K.) -A3- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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