أَمْرَدُ

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شَجَرَةٌ مَرْدَاءُ (tropical:) A tree having no leaves upon it: (Ks, A, L, K:) or, of which the leaves have altogether gone: (AHn, L:) and in like manner, غُصْنٌ أَمْرَدُ (tropical:) a branch having no leaves upon it: (Ks, S, L:) or the latter expression is not used. (T, L.)

رَمْلَةٌ مَرْدَاءُ (tropical:) A sand that is plain (L) and produces no plants: (S, A, L, K:) plural مَرَادٍ, as though it were a subst. (M, L.)

أَرْضٌ مَرْدَاءُ (tropical:) An expanse of sands in which nothing grows: plural مَرَادِى [or مَرَادِىُّ]. (As, T, L.)

أَمْرَدُ A youth, or young man, as yet beardless: (Msb:) or having no hair upon his cheeks: (IAar, L:) or who has remained to a late period without the hair of his face having grown forth: (S, Msb:) or whose mustache has grown forth, but not his beard, (L, K,) he having attained the usual age at which the beard grows: (L:) plural مُرْدٌ: (L:) diminutive أُمَيْرِدُ. (A.) You do not apply the epithet مَرْدَاءُ to a girl [in the sense above explained]. (S, L.) It is said in a tradition, أَهْلُ الجَنَّةِ جُرْدٌ مُرْدٌ [The people of paradise are without hair upon their bodies, and beardless]. (L.)

مَرْدَاءُ A woman having no hair upon her pubes. (M, L, K.) [In some copies of the K, for لَا إِسْبَ لَهَا, we find لا است لها: and the like is found in copies of the A.]

أَمْرَدُ A horse having no hair upon the fetlock. (S, L.)