This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
جَرَادٌ جراد [a coll. gen. n., (tropical:) Locusts; the locust; a kind of insect] well known: (S, Msb, K:) so called from stripping the ground, (A, Msb,) i. e., eating what is upon it: (Msb:) n. un. with جراد: (S, Msb:) applied alike to the male and the female: (S, Msb, K:) جرادة is not the masc. of بَقَرٌ, but is a [coll.] gen. n.; these two words being like بَقَرٌ and بَقَرَةٌ, andتَمْرٌ and تَمْرَةٌ, and حَمَامٌ and حَمَامَةٌ, &c.: it is therefore necessary that the masc. should be [in my copies of the S, “should not be,” but this is corrected in the margin of one of those copies,] of the same form as the fem., lest it should be confounded with the pl. [or rather the collective form]: (S:) but some say that جراد is the masc.; and جرادة, the fem.; and the saying رَأَيَتُ جَرَادًا عَلَى جَرَادَةٍ [as meaning I saw a male locust upon a female locust], like رَأَيْتُ نَعَامًا عَلَى نَعَامَةٍ, is cited: (TA:) it is first called سِرْوَةٌ; then, دَبًى; then, غَوْغَآءُ; then, خَيْفَانٌ; then, كُِتْفَانٌ; and then, جراد: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) As says that when the males become yellow and the females become black, they cease to have any name but جراد. (AHn, TA.) [Hence,] اِبْنُ الجَرَادِ, (T in art. بنى) or ابن الجَرَادَةِ (TA in that art.,) (assumed tropical:) The egg of the locust. (T and TA ubi suprà.) ― -b2- مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ جَرَادٍ عَارَهُ, (S, K,) or أَىُّ الجَرَادِ, (A, L,) (tropical:) I know not what man, (S, K,) or what thing, (A,) took him, or it, away. (S, A, K.)
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.
