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جِنْثٌ جنث i. q. أَصْلٌ [as meaning The stock, or stem, or the root, or base, or lowest part, of a tree or plant: and the stock, or origin, of a man]; (S, K;) a dial. var. of جِنْسٌ, or a word mispronounced: (S:) or, as some say, a root (of a tree) of which the أَرُومَة [i. e. root-stock] is erect in the ground: or the part of the سَاق [i. e. stock, or stem,] of a tree that is in the ground, above the عُرُوق [or roots properly so called]: (L, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْنَاثٌ and [of mult.] جُنُوثٌ. (TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ مِنْ جِنْثِكَ and جِنْسِكَ, meaning من أَصْلِكَ [i. e. Such a one is of thy stock]. (S.) And إِِنَّهُ لَيَرْجِعُ إِِلَى جِنْثِ صِدْقٍ [Verily he traces back his lineage to an excellent stock, or origin]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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