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جِيدٌ جيد , of the measure فِعْلٌ, (Sb, Akh,) or it may be originally of the measure فُعْلٌ, (Sb, TA,) The neck: (S, L, Msb, K:) said by Sh to be used only in praise; and عُنُقٌ, in dispraise; the use of the former in the Kur exi. being ironical; (TA;) but accord. to Esh-Shiháb, the contr. is often the case: (MF:) generally applied to that of a woman: (L:) or the part of the neck upon which the necklace lies: or its fore part: (L, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْيَادٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and [of mult.] جُيُودٌ. (L, K.) لَيِّنَةُ الأَجْيَادِ means A female soft in respect of the neck; as though the term جِيدٌ applied to each distinct part of the neck, and the pl. denoted the whole neck. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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