ز ر د

Arabic

Etymology 1

Compare ز ل ط (z-l-ṭ), ز ل ع (z-l-ʕ), ب ل ع (b-l-ʕ).

Root

ز ر د • (z-r-d)

1. related to gulping, choking

Derived terms

• Form I: زَرَدَ (zarada, “to choke; to gulp”)
  • Verbal noun: زَرْد (zard)
  • Active participle: زَارِد (zārid)
  • Passive participle: مَزْرُود (mazrūd)
• Form VIII: اِزْدَرَدَ (izdarada, “to gulp down”)
  • Verbal noun: اِزْدِرَاد (izdirād)
  • Active participle: مُزْدَرِد (muzdarid)
  • Passive participle: مُزْدَرَد (muzdarad)

• زَرِد (zarid, “quick in swallowing”)
• زُرْدَة (zurda, “quantity swallowed at once”)
• زَرَّاد (zarrād, “who strangles”)
• زِرَاد (zirād) and مِزْرَد (mizrad, “cord for compressing the throat of a camel”)

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Old Iranian *zrāda-. See Persian زره (zere) for more.

Root

ز ر د • (z-r-d)

1. related to military equipment

Derived terms

• زَرَد (zarad, “coat of mail”)
• زَرَّاد (zarrād, “who makes coats of mail”)
• زِرَادَة (zirāda, “art of making coats of mail”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ز ر د”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 232
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ز ر د”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1225