Young; (S, K, * TA;)
not arrived at puberty: (TA:) originally
جَذْعَةٌ; (
S,
K;) the
م being augmentative: (S:) the
ة is either to give intensiveness to the meaning, or to denote the feminine gender; the word being considered as implying the meaning of
نَفْسٌ or
جُثَّةٌ. (
TA.)