This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
أَرْضٌ جُرُزٌ ذ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ جُرْزٌ , and ↓ جَرَزٌ , and ↓ جَرْزٌ , (S, K,) and ↓ مَجْرُوزَةٌ , (K,) Land in which is no herbage; (Fr, S, Mgh;) as though the herbage or the rain were cut off from it: (S:) or from which the water is cut off, so that it is dried up and without herbage: (Msb, in explanation of the first:) or dried up, producing no herbage: (Jel in xviii. 7, in explanation of the first:) or of which the herbage has been cut: (Bd ibid., in explanation of the first; and A in explanation of the last:) or that produces no herbage: (K:) or of which the herbage has been eaten: (K: or this is the signification of the last [only] according to the S:) or not rained upon: (K:) or, accord. to some of the expositions of the Kur, by the first is meant the land of El-Yemen: and by the second, accord. to El-'Otbee, [land] that takes, or receives, much water, and does not dry it up: and as to ↓ جَرْزٌ , it may be an inf. n. used as an epithet, as though meaning ذَاتُ جَرْزٍ, i. e., of which the herbage has been eaten: also ↓ أَرْضٌ مَجْرُوزَةٌ is explained as signifying land of which the herbage has been consumed by the locusts or the sheep or goats or the camels or the like: (TA:) and ↓ مَفَازَةٌ مِجْرَازٌ a barren desert: (A, * K:) [see also جَارِزٌ:] the pl. of جُرْزٌ is جِرَزَةٌ, like as جِحَرَةٌ is pl. of جُحْرٌ; and that of جَرَزٌ is أَجْرَازٌ, like as أَسْبَابٌ is pl. of سَبَبٌ: (S:) and one says also أَرْضٌ أَجْرَازٌ, (K, TA,) as well as أَرَضُونَ أَجْرَازٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
