جِلْدٌ

, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) the only form of the word mentioned by the generality of the lexicographers; (TA;) occurring at the end of a verse with kesr to the second as well as the first letter, ↓ جِلِدٌ, agreeably with a license allowed to a poet in such a case, to give to a quiescent letter in a rhyme the same vowel as that which the preceding letter has; (S;) and ↓ جَلَدٌ, (IAar, S, K,) like شِبْهٌ and شَبَهٌ, and مِثْلٌ and مَثَلٌ; but this is said by ISk to be unknown; (S;) The skin of any animal; (K;) the integument of the body and limbs of an animal: (Az, Msb:) or the exterior of the بَشَرَةٌ [or upper skin] of an animal: (Msb: [but this is a strange explanation:]) plural جُلُودٌ (S, Msb, K) and (sometimes, Msb) أَجْلَادٌ [a plural of pauc.]. (Msb, K.)

[The plural] أَجْلَادٌ signifies also, and ↓ تَجَالِيدُ likewise, The body and limbs (S, A, L) of a man; (S;) the whole person, or body and limbs, of a human being; (L, K;) and his self: (L:) so called because enclosed by the skin: plural of the former, أَجَالِدُ. (L.) You say, مَا أَشْبَهَ أَجْلَادَهُ بِأَجْلَادِ أَبِيهِ How like are his person and body to the person and body of his father! (L.) And فُلَانٌ عَظِيمُ الأَجْلَادِ and ↓ التَّجَالِيدِ (A, L) Such a one is large and strong (L) in respect of the body and limbs. (A, L.) And رُدُّوا الأَيْمَانَ عَلَى أَجْلَادِهِمْ Repeat ye the oaths to the persons, themselves: occurring in a tradition: said on the occasion of a man's entering among others of whom an oath had been demanded. (L.)

الجِلْدُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The penis. (Fr, L, K: but in the CK, in this sense, it is written الجَلْدُ.) Agreeably with this explanation, its plural جُلُود is said by Fr to be used in the Qur'an, 41:20: (L:) or as meaning the pudenda: (L, K:) but ISd holds that this word there means the skins, with which, as in manual operations, acts of disobedience are performed. (L.)