جرذ

From the root ج ر د (j r d) related to gnawing the exterior off, a variation like in the also common جِذْر (jiḏr, “root”) from ج د ر (j d r). In dialects also جُرْذ (jurḏ), and جُرْد (jurd), but a stop for this spirant is common in dialects. It finds cognates in Mehri gərḏīn (“rat”), Harsusi gerḏīn (“rat”), Classical Syriac ܓܪܕܐ (garḏā, “beaver”), Akkadian 𒂵𒊑𒁺 (/⁠gāridu⁠/, “beaver”) and is alleged to be an inter-Semitic borrowing, specifically passed into Arabic from Aramaic, and ultimately an I