jird
Meanings
noun
- Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.
Word forms
Etymology
Probably from Arabic جُرَذ (juraḏ, “a rat”) in a vulgar pronunciation.
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