English
jird
Jird may come from Arabic جُرَذ ‘a rat’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentجُرَذjuraḏ‘a rat’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1982jird
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentجُرَذjuraḏ‘a rat’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1982jird
Earliest quotation: 1982, D. A. Denham, Animal Models in Parasitology: “The jirds are treated with the suspension or solution…”
Every English word from Arabic جُرَذ
Today it means
noun Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic جُرَذ / jird