جدة
العربية
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جدة¹
- /d͡ʒad.da/
Where it comes from
Feminine of جَدّ (jadd, “grandfather, ancestor”).
noun جَدَّة · jadda · جَدَّات · جَدّ · الْجَدَّة
- grandmother
جدة²
Where it comes from
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 · judda · جُدَد · الْجُدَّة
- streak, tract, path, stria وَمِنَ الْجِبَالِ جُدَدٌ بِيضٌ وَحُمْرٌ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهَا وَغَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ
noun جِدَّة · جُدَّة · jidda · judda
- bank, side, edge of a water body
proper noun جِدَّة · جُدَّة · جَدَّة · jidda · judda · jadda
- Jeddah (a port city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia)
جدة³
Where it comes from
Verbal noun of جَدَّ (jadda, “to be new”).
noun جِدَّة · jidda · الْجِدَّة · جِدَّةٌ
- verbal noun of جَدَّ (jadda, “to be new”) (form I)
- newness, recency فَدُفِنَّا مَعَهُ بِالْمَعْمُودِيَّةِ لِلْمَوْتِ، حَتَّى كَمَا أُقِيمَ الْمَسِيحُ مِنَ الْأَمْوَاتِ، بِمَجْدِ الْآبِ، هٰكَذَا نَسْلُكُ نَحْنُ أَيْضًا فِي جِدَّةِ الْحَيَاةِ؟
- novelty
- modernness, modernity
- rebirth, renaissance
In English
- grandparent parent of one's parent
- grandmother mother of someone's parent
- granny colloquial: grandmother — see also grandma
- grandma grandmother (informal) — see also granny
- Jeddah city in Saudi Arabia
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title = {جدة},
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