أجرد

Arabic

Etymology

Color or defect adjective from the root ج ر د (j-r-d).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔad͡ʒ.rad/

Adjective

أَجْرَد • (ʔajrad) (feminine جَرْدَاء (jardāʔ), common plural جُرْد (jurd))

1. barren, bare of vegetation, without herbage
   • 2010, Fushigi Yugi (Arabic dub), episode 1, spoken by Miaka, published 2010:

     أَرْضٌ جَرْدَاء، لَا طَعَامَ وَلَا مَاء، يَا إِلٰهِي!

     ʔarḍun jardāʔ, lā ṭaʕāma walā māʔ, yā ʔilāhī!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. unarmed or unshielded, stripped of what could protect
3. hairless, bald

Declension

Declension of adjective أَجْرَد (ʔajrad)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular diptote		basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	أَجْرَد ʔajrad	الْأَجْرَد al-ʔajrad	جَرْدَاء jardāʔ	الْجَرْدَاء al-jardāʔ
Nominative	أَجْرَدُ ʔajradu	الْأَجْرَدُ al-ʔajradu	جَرْدَاءُ jardāʔu	الْجَرْدَاءُ al-jardāʔu
Accusative	أَجْرَدَ ʔajrada	الْأَجْرَدَ al-ʔajrada	جَرْدَاءَ jardāʔa	الْجَرْدَاءَ al-jardāʔa
Genitive	أَجْرَدَ ʔajrada	الْأَجْرَدِ al-ʔajradi	جَرْدَاءَ jardāʔa	الْجَرْدَاءِ al-jardāʔi
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	أَجْرَدَيْن ʔajradayn	الْأَجْرَدَيْن al-ʔajradayn	جَرْدَاوَيْن jardāwayn	الْجَرْدَاوَيْن al-jardāwayn
Nominative	أَجْرَدَانِ ʔajradāni	الْأَجْرَدَانِ al-ʔajradāni	جَرْدَاوَانِ jardāwāni	الْجَرْدَاوَانِ al-jardāwāni
Accusative	أَجْرَدَيْنِ ʔajradayni	الْأَجْرَدَيْنِ al-ʔajradayni	جَرْدَاوَيْنِ jardāwayni	الْجَرْدَاوَيْنِ al-jardāwayni
Genitive	أَجْرَدَيْنِ ʔajradayni	الْأَجْرَدَيْنِ al-ʔajradayni	جَرْدَاوَيْنِ jardāwayni	الْجَرْدَاوَيْنِ al-jardāwayni
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	basic broken plural triptote		basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	جُرْد jurd	الْجُرْد al-jurd	جُرْد jurd	الْجُرْد al-jurd
Nominative	جُرْدٌ jurdun	الْجُرْدُ al-jurdu	جُرْدٌ jurdun	الْجُرْدُ al-jurdu
Accusative	جُرْدًا jurdan	الْجُرْدَ al-jurda	جُرْدًا jurdan	الْجُرْدَ al-jurda
Genitive	جُرْدٍ jurdin	الْجُرْدِ al-jurdi	جُرْدٍ jurdin	الْجُرْدِ al-jurdi

References

• “أجرد” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “أجرد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 264
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أجرد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 406
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أجرد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 142
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أجرد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 175