جَمَادٌ

(assumed tropical:) [A thing that does not grow, or increase; that is incapable of growth, or increase; an inorganic thing; as a mineral and the like:] an inanimate thing; a thing that has no soul: [an epithet used as a subst.; or an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant:] plural جَمَادَاتٌ. (Har p. 13.) [See also جَامِدٌ.]

(tropical:) Land (أَرْضٌ) upon which rain has not fallen: (T, S, K:) or dry land, upon which no rain has fallen, and in which is nothing: (T, TA:) or land in which is no produce: (A:) or, as some say, rugged land: (L:) or sterile, barren, or unfruitful, land, in which is nothing; as also جَهَادٌ: plural جُمُدٌ. (AA, L in article جهد.)

(tropical:) A year (سَنَةٌ) in which is no rain: (S, K:) or in which is no produce of the earth: (A:) and, in like manner, جَامِدَةٌ a year in which is no herbage, or pasture, no plenty, or fruitfulness, and no rain. (T, TA.)

(tropical:) A she-camel having no milk; (S, M, K;) and so a ewe or a she-goat: (L:) or having little milk: (T, TA:) and [according to some,] a slow she-camel; synonym بَطِيْيءَةٌ; (L, K;) but [this is apparently a mistranscription for بَكِيْيءَةٌ “ having little milk, ” and] ISd says that the explanation بطييءة does not please him. (TA.)