ج ع د

Arabic

Etymology

A blend of perhaps ج ي ء (j-y-ʔ) and ع و د (ʕ-w-d).

Root

ج ع د • (j-ʕ-d)

1. related to curliness, crispness

Derived terms

• Form I: جَعُدَ (jaʕuda, “to be curly, to be crisp, to be twisted, to be wavy”)
  • Verbal noun: جُعُودَة (juʕūda), جَعَادَة (jaʕāda)
  • Active participle: جَاعِد (jāʕid)
• Form II: جَعَّدَ (jaʕʕada, “to make curly, to make crisp, to make twisted, to make wavy”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْعِيد (tajʕīd)
  • Active participle: مُجَعِّد (mujaʕʕid)
  • Passive participle: مُجَعَّد (mujaʕʕad)
• Form V: تَجَعَّدَ (tajaʕʕada, “to be curly, to be crisp, to be twisted, to be wavy”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَعُّد (tajaʕʕud)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَعِّد (mutajaʕʕid)

• جَعْدَة (jaʕda, “crease, crumple”)
• جَعْد (jaʕd, “crispy, creasy, stingy, closefisted”)
• أَجْعَد (ʔajʕad, “having creasiness”)
• جُعُودَة (juʕūda, “frizziness”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 270
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج ع د”, 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 282
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج ع د”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 428–429
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ج ع د”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 186