جَدَدٌ

Hard ground: (S:) or hard level ground: (Har p. 522:) [see also جَدْجَدٌ:] or rough level ground: (K:) or rough ground: or level ground: (TA:) or a level and spacious tract of land; a tract such as is called صَحْرَاء, and such as is called فَضَاء, containing no soft place in which the feet sink, nor any mountain, nor any [hill such as is called] أَكَمَة; sometimes wide, and sometimes of little width: (ISh:) [and] a conspicuous road: (Bd in xxxv. 25:) plural أَجْدَادٌ. (ISh.) It is said in a prov., مَنْ سَلَكَ الجَدَدَ أَمِنَ العِثَارَ [He who walks along hard, or hard and level, ground is secure from stumbling]; (S, TA;) meaning, he who pursues the course marked out by common consent is secure from stumbling. (TA.) And مَكَانٌ جَدَدٌ occurs in a tradition, meaning Level ground. (TA.)

See also جَدِيدٌ.

Also Sand that is thin, or fine, (K, TA,) and sloping down. (TA.)

And A thing resembling a سِلْعَة [or ganglion] in the neck of a camel. (K.)