جَعْدٌ

, applied to hair, (S, A, Msb, K,) Crisp, or curly, or twisted, and contracted; (Msb;) opposite of سَبْطٌ (K,) or of مُسْتَرْسِلٌ: (Msb:) or short. (Kr, K.)

Applied to a man, (S,) Having hair such as is termed جَعْد: (S, Msb, K:) [or] so جَعْدُ الشَّعَرِ: (A, TA:) feminine with ة: (S, Msb, K:) plural جِعَادٌ. (A, Msb.)

As an epithet of praise, it has two meanings; namely, (assumed tropical:) Compact in limbs, and strong in make; not flabby, nor of slack, or incongruous, make; (L;) or big, or bulky, and compact; (Ham p. 238;) or, as some say, light, or active: (TA:) and having crisp, or curly, not lank, hair; because lankness is the prevalent characteristic of the hair of the Greeks and Persians; and crispness, or curliness, is the prevalent characteristic of the hair of the Arabs: but very crisp, or frizzled, or woolly, hair, like that of the Zenj and the Nubians, is disapproved. (L.)

[Hence,] (tropical:) Generous; bountiful; munificent; (T, S, A, K;) alluding to a man's being an Arab of generous disposition, because the Arabs are characterized by crisp, or curly, hair. (A.) As did not know جعد in this sense; but it occurs in many verses of the Ansár. (T, TA.)

As an epithet of dispraise, it has also two meanings; namely, (assumed tropical:) Short, and incongruous in make: (L:) [opposite of سَبْطٌ:]

and (tropical:) Niggardly; (As, T, S, L, K;) as also جَعْدُ اليَدَيْنِ, (S, K,) and جَعْدُ الأَنَامِلُ, (S,) and جَعْدُ الأَصَابِعُ, (A,) or this signifies (assumed tropical:) having short fingers, (K,) and جَعْدُ البَنَانِ, and جَعْدُ الكَفِّ, (Har p. 96,) and جَعْدُ الجَنَانِ; (A;) opposite of [سَبْطُ اليَدَيْنِ, and] سبطُ اليَدِ and سبطُ البَنَانِ [&c.]: (Har ubi suprà:) and mean; ungenerous; base: (L:) and جَعْدُ القَفَا (tropical:) mean, or ignoble, in respect of rank, quality, reputation, or the like. (A, K.)

A camel having much fur: (K:) or having crisp, or curly, and abundant, fur. (S.) [Hence,] أَبُو الجَعْدِ a surname of The camel. (L.)

(assumed tropical:) Soft moist earth; as also ثَعْدٌ: (S:) or moist earth. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) A mess of the kind called حَيْس that is thick, (L, K,) not flowing; (L;) as also ↓ مُجَعَّدٌ. (L, K.) IAar cites the following words of a poet, accusing a woman of foul conduct:

↓ وَتَخْلِطُ بِالمَأْقُوطِ حَيْسًا مُجَعَّدًا

[And she mixes thick حيس with the food prepared with أَقِط]; meaning, she confounds men together, and does not select him who is to have intercourse with her. (L.)

(assumed tropical:) Froth, or foam, accumulated upon the fore part of the mouth of a camel. (S, * L.) And جَعْدُ اللُّغَامِ (assumed tropical:) A camel having froth, or foam, accumulated upon the fore part of his mouth. (S, * L, K. *)

(assumed tropical:) A cheek rough, or coarse, and short; not أَسِيل. (L, K.) And (assumed tropical:) A round face, with little مِلْح [or beauty], (K, TA,) or, as in some copies of the K, لَحْم [or flesh]. (TA.) And قَدَمٌ جَعْدَةٌ (tropical:) A short foot; (A, TA;) characteristic of low origin. (TA.)

It is also applied, in the manner of an intensive epithet, to the plant called صِلِّيَان; and in like manner, with ة, to the plant called بُهْمَى. (TA.)

نَاقَةٌ جَعْدَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A she-camel compact in make, and strong. (TA.)