Rizwan Zubair

Root ج ر د j-r-d

Quranic citations in this entry: 2 · اردو

ج ر دj-r-d

(ن) جَرَدَ يَجْرُدُ جَرْدًاjarada yajrudu jardan: to peel, to strip off the skin, to clear away.

جَرَادjarād (generic noun, ism jins, singular, wāḥidah, جَرَادَةjarādah): locust — so named because it strips the land bare. Twice in the Quran, both times as a generic noun: ﴿فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الطُّوْفَانَ وَالْجَرَادَ﴾ (Al-Aʿrāf 7:133); ﴿كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُّنْتَشِرٌ﴾ (Al-Qamar 54:7)

Form II (tafʿīl) جَرَّدَ يُجَرِّدُ تَجْرِيْدًاjarrada yujarridu tajrīdan: to strip bare by peeling; to separate something from every admixture (this verb is not used in the Quran).

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