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جَلَدٌ جلد : see جِلْدٌ. ― -b2- Also The skin of a camel, or other beast, with which another beast is clothed: (L:) the skin of a young camel, which (being stripped off, S) is put over the body of another young camel, in order that the mother of the skinned young one (smelling it, S) may conceive an affection for it [and suckle it]: (S, K:) or the skin of a young camel, which is stuffed with panic grass (ثُمَام), (K, TA,) or some other plant, (TA,) and put before a she-camel, in order that she may be induced thereby to affect that which is not her young one [and so yield her milk], (K, TA,) or, to affect the young one of another. (L, TA.) -A2- A ewe or she-goat whose young one dies at the time of her bringing it forth; as also ↓ جَلَدَةٌ : pl. [of the former] جِلَادٌ and [of the latter] جَلَدَاتٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, [as a coll. gen. n.,] Great she-camels, having neither young ones nor milk; n. un. with ة: (S:) [see also جَلْدٌ:] or great camels, among which are no little ones; (K;) n. un. with ة: (TA:) and (app. as a quasipl. n., TA) sheep or goats, and camels, having neither young ones nor milk; (K;) app. meaning having no little ones to which they give such: (Mohammad Ibn-El-Mukarram, TA:) or she-camels having no young ones with them, so that they endure patiently the heat and cold: (Fr, TA:) or she-camels having no milk, and the young ones of which have gone away from them; including what are called بَنَاتُ اللَّبُونِ, and such as are above these in age; and also such as are called مَخَاصٌ, and عِشَارٌ, and حِيَالٌ; but when they have given birth to their young, they cease to be termed جَلَدٌ, and are called عِشَارٌ, and لِقَاحٌ: the pl. is أَجْلَادٌ and [pl. pl.] أَجَالِيدُ. (Az, TA.) -A3- Hard ground; as also ↓ أَجْلَدُ : (S:) or hard and level ground; as also ↓ جَلَدَةٌ : (K:) or level but rough ground; (L;) as also ↓ أَجْلَدُ : (TA:) pl. (of the former, TA) أَجْلَادٌ and (of the latter, TA) أَجَالِدُ. (S, TA.) You also say أَرْضٌ جَلَدٌ, with fet-h to the ل; (AHn, TA;) and ↓ جَلْدَةٌ , with a quiescent ل; (Lth, AHn, TA;) and ارض ↓ جَلَدَةٌ also; and مَكَانٌ جَلَدٌ. (Lth, TA.) -A4- Also, as a subst. or an inf. n., (L, [see جَلُدَ,]) Hardiness, strength, sturdiness, (S, * A, * L, K, *) and endurance, or patience. (T.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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