See also: حدة

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Feminine of جَدّ (jadd, grandfather, ancestor).

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /d͡ʒad.da/

Noun edit

جَدَّة (jaddaf (plural جَدَّات (jaddāt), masculine جَدّ (jadd))

  1. grandmother
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

Root
ج د د (j-d-d)

Cognate with Aramaic גידא / גודא, a length, a strip, a row, or patch; hence a strip of land by the sea, a tract near a body of water.

Noun edit

جُدَّة (juddaf (plural جُدَد (judad))

  1. streak, tract, path, stria
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:27:
      وَمِنَ الْجِبَالِ جُدَدٌ بِيضٌ وَحُمْرٌ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهَا وَغَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ
      wa-mina l-jibāli judadun bīḍun wa-ḥumrun mmuḵtalifun ʔalwānuhā wa-ḡarābību sūdun
      And in the barrows there are streaks of bright white, of reds of sundry shades, and of raven’s black.
Declension edit

Noun edit

جِدَّة or جُدَّة (jidda or juddaf (obsolete)

  1. bank, side, edge of a water body
Declension edit

Proper noun edit

جِدَّة or جُدَّة (jidda or juddaf

  1. Jeddah (a port city in Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea)
Declension edit

Etymology 3 edit

Verbal noun of جَدَّ (jadda, to be new).

Noun edit

جِدَّة (jiddaf

  1. verbal noun of جَدَّ (jadda, to be new) (form I)
  2. newness, recency
    • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Epistle to the Romans, 6:4:
      فَدُفِنَّا مَعَهُ بِالْمَعْمُودِيَّةِ لِلْمَوْتِ، حَتَّى كَمَا أُقِيمَ الْمَسِيحُ مِنَ الْأَمْوَاتِ، بِمَجْدِ الْآبِ، هٰكَذَا نَسْلُكُ نَحْنُ أَيْضًا فِي جِدَّةِ الْحَيَاةِ؟
      fa-dufinnā maʕahu bi-l-maʕmūdiyyati li-l-mawti, ḥattā kamā ʔuqīma l-masīḥu mina l-ʔamwāti, bi-majdi l-ʔābi, hākaḏā nasluku naḥnu ʔayḍan fī jiddati al-ḥayāti?
      Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
  3. novelty
  4. modernness, modernity
  5. rebirth, renaissance
Declension edit

References edit

  • gd2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Badawi, Elsaid M., Abdel Haleem, Muhammad (2008) Arabic-English Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 85), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 157
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 285
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “جدة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 250–251

Hijazi Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic جَدَّة (jadda).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

جَدَّة (jaddaf (plural جدات (jaddāt), masculine جد (jadd))

  1. grandmother
    Synonyms: سِتّ (sitt), سِتُّو (sittu), أَنَّة (ʔanna)

Etymology 2 edit

From Arabic جِدَّة (jidda).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒid.da/, [d͡ʒɪdda], [ʒɪdda]

Proper noun edit

جِدَّة (jiddaf

  1. Jeddah (a city in Saudi Arabia)

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Arabic جِدَّة (Jidda) or جُدَّة (Judda, Jeddah), from جِدَّة (jidda) or جُدَّة (judda, shore, bank).

Proper noun edit

جدة (Cidde or Cüdde)

  1. Jeddah (a city in Saudi Arabia)

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: Cidde

References edit

  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Cidde”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 157

South Levantine Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic جَدَّة (jadda).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʒad.de/, [ˈʒad.de]
  • IPA(key): /ʒad.da/, [ˈʒad.da]
  • (file)

Noun edit

جدة (jaddef (plural جدات (jaddāt), masculine جد (jadd))

  1. grandmother
    Synonyms: ست (sitt), تيتا (tēta, grandma)