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غَضٌّ ذ Fresh; juicy; sappy: moist; not flaccid; (S, Msb, K;) applied to a thing, (S, Msb,) whatever it be; (TA;) as also ↓ غَضِيضً . (S. K,) Hence the trad. مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَقْرَأُ القُرْآنَ غَضًّا كَمَا نَزَلَ فَلْيَقْرَأْ قِرَآءَةَ ا@بْنِ أَمِّ عَبْدٍ [He who is rejoiced or pleased, to read the Kur-an freshly, who as it descended, let him read according to the reading of Ibn-Umm-'Abd]. (TA.) ― -b2- A calf recently born: pl. غِضَاضٌ. (K.) ― -b3- Anything (S) beautiful and bright; (S, K;,) as (assumed tropical:) youth, and the like: (S;) or غَضٌّ applied to youth, and غَضَّةٌ applied to a woman, (tropical:) i. q. بَضٌّ and بَضَّةٌ thinskinned, or fine-skinned, and plump: &c. j: (A:) or the latter, applied to a woman, (tropical:) thin-shinned, or fine-skinned, so that the blood appears [though the skin]; (Lh:) and ↓ غَضِيضَةٌ also is thus applied like غَضَّةٌ. (TA.) You say also, شَىْءٌ بَضٌّ غَضٌّ, and ↓ بَاضٌّ غَاضٌّ A thing fresh, &c., and beautiful and bright; [in a flourishing condition;] not changed, or altered [for the worse]. (TA.) And نَبْتُ غَضٌّ A [fresh and flourishing and] tender plant. (TA.) And ظِلٌّ غَضٌّ (assumed tropical:) Shade which the sun has not reached; like a plant which the sun has not reached. (TA.) ― -b4- The spadix of a palm-tree; syn. طَلْعٌ; as also ↓ غَضِيضٌ : (IAar:) or both signify a tender طَلْع: (K:) or a tender طَلْع when it appears: (TA:) or the latter, a طَلْع when it appears: (As, S:) or the same, fruit when it first comes forth. (TA.)

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