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جَمَادٌ جماد (assumed tropical:) [A thing that does not grow, or increase; that is incapable of growth, or increase; an inorganic thing; as a mineral and the like:] an inanimate thing; a thing that has no soul: [an epithet used as a subst.; or an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant:] pl. جَمَادَاتٌ. (Har p. 13.) [See also جَامِدٌ.] ― -b2- (tropical:) Land (أَرْضٌ) upon which rain has not fallen: (T, S, K:) or dry land, upon which no rain has fallen, and in which is nothing: (T, TA:) or land in which is no produce: (A:) or, as some say, rugged land: (L:) or sterile, barren, or unfruitful, land, in which is nothing; as also جَهَادٌ: pl. جُمُدٌ. (AA, L in art. جهد.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A year (سَنَةٌ) in which is no rain: (S, K:) or in which is no produce of the earth: (A:) and, in like manner, ↓ جَامِدَةٌ a year in which is no herbage, or pasture, no plenty, or fruitfulness, and no rain. (T, TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A she-camel having no milk; (S, M, K;) and so a ewe or a she-goat: (L:) or having little milk: (T, TA:) and [accord. to some,] a slow she-camel; syn. بَطِيْئَةٌ; (L, K;) but [this is app. a mistranscription for بَكِيْئَةٌ “ having little milk, ” and] ISd says that the explanation بطيئة does not please him. (TA.) ― -b5- See also جَامِدٌ, in two places. -A2- A kind of cloth or garment; as also ↓ جِمَادٌ . (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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