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- Arabic · borrowed fromجُرَذ“a rat”
- English todayjird
Probably from Arabic جُرَذ (juraḏ, “a rat”) in a vulgar pronunciation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
jird
Today it means: Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys. Full definition →
Arabic جُرَذ