ج و ف

Arabic[edit]

ج و ف • (j-w-f)

Form I: جَافَ (jāfa, “to be hollow; to reach the interior of”)
- Verbal noun: جَوْف (jawf)
- Active participle: جَائِف (jāʔif)
- Passive participle: مَجُوف (majūf)
Form I: جَوِفَ (jawifa, “to be hollow, to be concave”)
- Verbal noun: جَوَف (jawaf)
Form II: جَوَّفَ (jawwafa, “to hollow out”)
- Verbal noun: تَجْوِيف (tajwīf)
- Active participle: مُجَوِّف (mujawwif)
- Passive participle: مُجَوَّف (mujawwaf)
Form IV: أَجَافَ (ʔajāfa, “to shut, to close”)
- Verbal noun: إِجَافَة (ʔijāfa)
- Active participle: مُجِيف (mujīf)
- Passive participle: مُجَاف (mujāf)
Form V: تَجَوَّفَ (tajawwafa, “to become hollow”)
- Verbal noun: تَجَوُّف (tajawwuf)
- Active participle: مُتَجَوِّف (mutajawwif)
Form VIII: اِجْتَافَ (ijtāfa, “to enter the interior of”)
- Verbal noun: اِجْتِيَاف (ijtiyāf)
- Active participle: مُجْتَاف (mujtāf)
Form X: اِسْتَجَافَ (istajāfa, “to become spacious, to become wide, to become ample”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِجَافَة (istijāfa)
- Active participle: مُسْتَجِيف (mustajīf)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَجَاف (mustajāf)

جَوْف (jawf, “hollow, cavity, depression; interior, inner; belly, abdomen; north”, noun)
- جَوْفِيّ (jawfiyy, “inner; northern”, adjective)
- جَوْفَانِيّ (jawfāniyy, “gourmand, glutton”, adjective)
أَجْوَف (ʔajwaf, “hollow”, adjective)
جَوْفَان (jawfān, “the membrum virile of an ass”, noun)
جِيفَة (jīfa, “corpse”)

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