ج ي د

Arabic

Etymology

From جِيد (jīd) ex *giwd from the root ج و د (j-w-d).

Root

ج ي د • (j-y-d)

related to slender necks

Derived terms

Form I: جَادَ (jāda, “to have a slender neck”)
- Verbal noun: جَيَد (jayad)
- Active participle: جَائِد (jāʔid)

أَجْيَد (ʔajyad, “slender-necked”); f. جَيْدَاء (jaydāʔ), pl. جُود (jūd)
جِيد (jīd, “neck”); pl. أَجْيَاد (ʔajyād) and جُيُود (juyūd)

References

Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج ي د”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 329
Lane, Edward William (1863) “جيد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 493

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