جدة

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See also: جده and حدة

Arabic

Etymology 1

Feminine of جَدّ (jadd, grandfather, ancestor).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /d͡ʒad.da/

Noun

جَدَّة (jaddaf (plural جَدَّات (jaddāt), masculine جَدّ (jadd))

  1. grandmother
Declension

Etymology 2

Root
ج د د (j d d)
14 terms

Cognate with Aramaic גידא / גודא, a length, a strip, a row, or patch; hence a strip of land by the sea, a tract near a body of water.

Noun

جُدَّة (juddaf (plural جُدَد (judad))

  1. streak, tract, path, stria
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:27:
      وَمِنَ الْجِبَالِ جُدَدٌ بِيضٌ وَحُمْرٌ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهَا وَغَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ
      wa-mina l-jibāli judadun bīḍun wa-ḥumrun muḵtalifun ʔalwānuhā wa-ḡarābību sūdun
      And in the barrows there are streaks of bright white, of reds of sundry shades, and of raven’s black.
Declension

Noun

جِدَّة or جُدَّة (jidda or juddaf (obsolete)

  1. bank, side, edge of a water body
Declension

Proper noun

جِدَّة or جُدَّة (jidda or juddaf

  1. Jeddah (a port city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia)
Declension

Etymology 3

Verbal noun of جَدَّ (jadda, to be new).

Noun

جِدَّة (jiddaf

  1. verbal noun of جَدَّ (jadda, to be new) (form I)
  2. newness, recency
    • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Epistle to the Romans, 6:4:
      فَدُفِنَّا مَعَهُ بِالْمَعْمُودِيَّةِ لِلْمَوْتِ، حَتَّى كَمَا أُقِيمَ الْمَسِيحُ مِنَ الْأَمْوَاتِ، بِمَجْدِ الْآبِ، هٰكَذَا نَسْلُكُ نَحْنُ أَيْضًا فِي جِدَّةِ الْحَيَاةِ؟
      fa-dufinnā maʕahu bi-l-maʕmūdiyyati li-l-mawti, ḥattā kamā ʔuqīma l-masīḥu mina l-ʔamwāti, bi-majdi l-ʔābi, hākaḏā nasluku naḥnu ʔayḍan fī jiddati al-ḥayāti?
      Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
  3. novelty
  4. modernness, modernity
  5. rebirth, renaissance
Declension

References

  • gd2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Badawi, Elsaid M., Abdel Haleem, Muhammad (2008) Arabic-English Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 85), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 157
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 285
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “جدة”, 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, pages 250–251

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic جَدَّة (jadda).

Pronunciation

Noun

جَدَّة (jaddaf (plural جدات (jaddāt), masculine جد (jadd))

  1. grandmother
    Synonyms: سِتّ (sitt), سِتُّو (sittu), أَنَّة (ʔanna)

Etymology 2

From Arabic جِدَّة (jidda).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

جِدَّة (jiddaf

  1. Jeddah (a port city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic جَدَّة (jadda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒad.de/,
  • IPA(key): /ʒad.da/,
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Noun

جدة (jaddef (plural جدات (jaddāt), masculine جد (jadd))

  1. grandmother
    Synonyms: ست (sitt), تيتا (tēta, grandma)