جدة

      Arabic

      Etymology 1

      From جد (jadd), grandfather, ancestor.

      Noun

      جدة‎ • (jídda) f, plural جدات (jiddāt)‎

      1. grandmother
      2. Eve (wife of Adam)

      Proper noun

      جدة (transliteration needed)

      1. Jeddah (port city in Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea, purportedly the burial site of Eve)

      Etymology 2

      From the root verb جد (jádda), to be new.

      Noun

      جدة‎ • (jídda) f

      1. newness, recency
      2. novelty
      3. modernness, modernity
      4. rebirth, renaissance

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      Last modified on 28 April 2013, at 00:00