Quranic root
جرد
j · r · d
The root centers on the exposure or uncovering of a thing by removing what covers it.
From this principle develop the senses of stripping garments or coverings, bare or hairless surfaces, vegetation removed from land, the stripped palm branch, locusts understood as stripping the earth, and related extensions such as clarity, completeness, and separation.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
جَرَادٌ
jarādun
- Part of speech
- Noun
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Locusts; the locust as a collective kind of insect.
A collective generic noun, applied to locusts generally and to male or female locusts. In the Quran it occurs both for the plague of locusts and in a simile for a scattered multitude.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:133word 4
“and the locusts”
Quran 54:7word 7
“locusts”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 75 Classical meanings
جَرَدَ
To strip away or consume what is upon a surface; locusts strip a land of its herbage, and deprivation or drought may thereby destroy people.
Form I transitive usage; the object may be vegetation, a surface covering, or, figuratively, people deprived of their means.
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جُرِدَ
To be stripped or eaten bare by locusts; said of land or seed-produce.
Passive or resultative usage with land and agricultural produce as the affected objects.
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جَرِدَ
To become bare: a place becomes without vegetation, a person loses body hair, or a horse or similar animal has short or fine hair.
The particular result depends on the subject; the hair-related uses concern a human body or an animal's coat.
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جَرِدَ
To develop a skin eruption or abdominal complaint from eating locusts.
An idiomatic Form I use describing effects attributed to eating locusts.
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جَرَّدَ
To strip or divest someone or something of clothing, a covering, a peel, bark, or hair.
Form II transitive usage; the removed material may be garments, a coat or covering, or hair from skin.
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جَرَّدَ
To render land bare of herbage.
Used of drought or another agency that leaves the earth without vegetation.
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جَرَّدَ
To prune or trim a tree or plant.
A specialized agricultural usage, synonymous with removing superfluous growth.
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جَرَّدَ
To bare or draw a sword from its scabbard.
The object is a sword, understood as being released from its sheath.
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جَرَّدَ
To detach a company from an army or larger body.
A military construction involving the separation of a group for a direction or purpose.
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جَرَّدَ
To divest a thing of every accessory, adjunct, appendage, or adventitious feature; to reduce it to what is bare or essential.
An abstract extension of physical stripping.
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جَرَّدَ
To leave a writing or the Quran free of signs, additions, and accompanying material; by extension, to recite or present it without attached Jewish or Christian narratives.
A specialized construction with الكتاب or القرآن, concerning removal of annotations, introductory material, or extraneous stories rather than removal of the text itself.
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جَرَّدَ
To separate cotton from its seeds and loosen it.
A technical textile-processing usage, performed with a cotton gin or bow and mallet.
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جَرَّدَ
To perform the pilgrimage separately from the lesser pilgrimage, or to free the pilgrimage from worldly motives.
Used with الحجّ or بالحجّ in pilgrimage terminology; the latter interpretation emphasizes devotional detachment.
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جَرَّدَ
To ask or beg something from a group, with the result that they refuse or give it unwillingly.
A specialized construction with a people or company as the object of the request.
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جَرَّدَ
To put on old, worn-out garments.
An intransitive or absolute Form II usage with جُرُود, old garments, as the object or clothing worn.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To become stripped or bare, or to strip oneself of clothing.
Form V reflexive usage, especially with مِنْ and clothing as the thing removed.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To emerge from an envelope, husk, or calyx.
Used of a grain ear or flower coming out of its enclosing covering.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To cease boiling and become free of froth or foam.
Used of expressed juice as it settles and loses its foam.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To become alone or apart, detached from other people.
A figurative Form V use describing social separation.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To outstrip others and move ahead of them.
Used of a horse separating from the other racers, or of a male animal moving ahead from among females.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To devote oneself exclusively and diligently to an affair, worship, or a task; to exert oneself in it.
Used with لِـ, especially in constructions such as تجرّد للأمر and تجرّد للعبادة; the sense emphasizes setting other concerns aside.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To strive or hasten in going or traveling.
Used with في السير for vigorous or rapid progress.
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تَجَرَّدَ
To imitate or affect the appearance of a pilgrim to Mecca.
A specialized pilgrimage-related construction with بالحجّ.
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اِنْجَرَدَ
To cast off or let fall its fur or soft hair.
Used of camels shedding their coat.
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اِنْجَرَدَ
To become threadbare, napless, and smooth.
Used of a garment or piece of cloth worn until its nap has disappeared.
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اِنْجَرَدَ
To become extended and prolonged without a pause.
In the construction انجرد بنا السير, the journey or march continues at length without stopping.
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اِجْتَرَدَ
To attack one another with drawn swords.
A reciprocal Form VIII military construction.
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جَرْدٌ
An old, worn, threadbare garment whose nap has fallen away.
Also used of a garment worn until it becomes smooth; the plural جُرُود denotes worn garments.
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جَرْدٌ
The pudendum or pudenda; the private parts.
A substantive anatomical usage, also explained as the awrah.
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جَرْدٌ
The penis.
A more specific anatomical use alongside the broader sense of the private parts.
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جَرْدٌ
A shield.
A specialized noun with no further contextual restriction supplied.
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جَرْدٌ
A remnant of property or cattle.
A substantive use for what remains of an estate or herd.
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جَرَدٌ
A wide or spacious tract of land without herbage.
An appellative noun derived from the condition of exposed, vegetationless land.
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جَرَدٌ
The back, especially in the idiom of being struck or shot on the back.
Appears in the fixed expression رُمِيَ عَلَى جَرَدِهِ.
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جَرِدٌ
A place or open space destitute of herbage.
Used adjectivally of land or a plain; feminine and plural forms are also used.
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جَرِدٌ
A person affected by the cutaneous eruption caused by eating locusts.
A substantive adjective describing the affected person.
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جَرْدَةٌ
An old, worn piece of rag.
A feminine noun related to the worn-garment sense of جَرْدٌ.
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جُرْدَةٌ
The denuded or unclad part of the body; the body considered in its uncovered state.
Used in expressions describing the appearance or quality of the uncovered body.
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جُرْدَةٌ
Plain, level, bare land.
A geographical or landscape noun for exposed ground.
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الجُرْدَانُ
The yard or penis of a horse or other solid-hoofed animal.
An anatomical term whose application may be broader than horses according to the lexical evidence.
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جَرَادٌ
In an idiom, an unknown person or thing that carried someone or something away.
Used in ما أدري أي جراد عاره and related variants; this is an idiomatic extension, not the ordinary insect meaning.
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جَرِيدٌ
A palm branch stripped of its leaves; by dialectal extension, a palm branch more generally, including a dry or long fresh branch.
While the leaves remain it is called سَعَفَةٌ in the primary distinction; جَرِيدَةٌ is the individual noun of the collective term.
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جَرِيدٌ
A tally stick used for keeping accounts by means of notches.
An instrumental extension from the palm stick traditionally used for recording counts.
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جَرِيدٌ
An account book or a register, especially a tax or land-tax register.
A further extension of the tally-stick sense.
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جَرِيدٌ
Choice, excellent, and strong; used especially of camels.
An adjectival epithet with camels as the attested object.
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جُرَادَةٌ
Anything peeled or pared off from another thing.
A noun for the material removed by peeling or paring.
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جَرِيدَةٌ
A detachment or company of horsemen separated from the main force.
The group may be detached for a particular direction or purpose and may consist exclusively of horsemen.
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جُرَيْدَاءُ
The middle of the back of the neck, where it is free from flesh.
A diminutive anatomical term in the expression جُرَيْدَاءُ المَتْنِ.
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جَرَّادٌ
One who polishes brass vessels.
An occupational noun.
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جَارُودٌ
An unlucky person who strips away prosperity by his ill fortune.
A figurative personal epithet built on the notion of stripping or removing.
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جَارُودٌ
A year of drought and severe dryness that destroys or impoverishes.
Used of a year or season whose dryness leaves the earth barren.
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الجَارُودِيَّةٌ
A sect of the Zaydī Shīʿa.
A proper sectarian name derived from the name of Abū al-Jārūd.
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أَجْرَدُ
Hairless or nearly hairless on the body.
The masculine adjective is contrasted with أَشْعَرُ, one covered with body hair; its feminine and plural forms are also used.
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أَجْرَدُ
Having short or short, fine hair, especially of a horse or similar animal.
An adjectival description of an animal's coat and, by extension, of hair on its legs.
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أَجْرَدُ
Bare or without hair, as of a check or sandal.
Used adjectivally of an object whose surface lacks hair.
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أَجْرَدُ
Bare or barren when applied to a place or land.
The feminine جَرْدَاءُ is used with land and related landscape nouns.
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أَجْرَدُ
Free of froth, dregs, or clouds; clear.
Used of milk, wine, or the sky according to the object.
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أَجْرَدُ
Smooth, including a smooth rock.
The feminine form is attested for a smooth rock.
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أَجْرَدُ
Free of concealed hatred, deceit, dishonesty, or dissimulation.
A figurative description of an untroubled and sincere heart.
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أَجْرَدُ
Complete and free from deficiency; said of a full period of time.
Used of a year, month, or day, and in expressions referring to two complete periods.
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أَجْرَدُ
A horse that outstrips the others and separates from them by its speed.
An adjectival noun for a swift racing horse.
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أَجْرَدُ
A voracious she-camel.
Attested in the feminine form as a specialized animal epithet.
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أَجْرَدُ
The sea.
A rare substantive extension recorded for the root.
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إِجْرِدٌّ
A plant or herb said to indicate places where truffles are found, also described as a leguminous plant with pepper-like grains.
A specialized plant name; the doubled and undoubled pronunciations are variant forms.
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مُجْرَدٌ
A man ejected from his property.
A rare passive-participial or adjectival usage.
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مُجَرَّدٌ
Bare, naked, or drawn, especially of a sword.
The sword is understood as drawn from its scabbard or stripped of its covering.
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مُجَرَّدٌ
Divested of every accessory or adventitious feature; bare, sheer, mere, or abstract.
An abstract adjectival use derived from complete removal of additions.
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مُجَرَّدٌ
Bodiless or incorporeal.
A technical philosophical use of the abstracted sense.
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مَجْرُودٌ
Peeled or pared; divested of its peel, bark, coat, or covering.
A passive participle describing the result of removing an outer layer.
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مَجْرُودٌ
Land stripped or affected by locusts; in one usage, land abounding in locusts.
A passive-participial epithet of land; the lexical evidence records both the result of locust feeding and the presence of locusts.
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مَجْرُودٌ
A man suffering an abdominal complaint from eating locusts.
A specialized adjectival use describing the affected person.
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مُنْجَرِدٌ
A horse having short and sparse hair.
An adjectival description of the horse's coat.
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مُنْجَرِدٌ
A horse sharp or vigorous in pace.
The same horse epithet may emphasize speed or vigorous movement.
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مُنْجَرِدٌ
Not free from shyness or bashfulness in appearing before others.
Occurs in the idiomatic expression مَا أَنْتَ بِمُنْجَرِدِ السِّلْكِ and its variants.
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مُنْجَرِدٌ
Not celebrated or well-known.
An alternative interpretation of the same idiomatic expression.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
جَرَادٌ is a collective generic noun; the Quranic occurrences denote locusts without requiring a separate singular lexical headword.
The expression جرّدوا القرآن is represented as a broader Classical Arabic construction, not as an additional Quran-attested QAC form group.