ج و ف
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[edit]Root
[edit]ج و ف • (j-w-f)
- related to hollowness
Derived terms
[edit]- Form I: جَافَ (jāfa, “to be hollow; to reach the interior of”)
- Form I: جَوِفَ (jawifa, “to be hollow, to be concave”)
- Verbal noun: جَوَف (jawaf)
- Form II: جَوَّفَ (jawwafa, “to hollow out”)
- Form IV: أَجَافَ (ʔajāfa, “to shut, to close”)
- 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”)
References
[edit]- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ج و ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 235
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج و ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 325–326
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج و ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 487–488
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ج و ف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 357
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ج و ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 175–176
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ج و ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 218