جرف

2 جرّفهُ جرف جرفه جرفة , inf. n. تَجْرِيفٌ: see 1, in four places. ― -b2- جرّفهُ الدَّهْرُ (assumed tropical:) Time, or fortune, or misfortune, destroyed, or exterminated, his property, or cattle, and reduced him to poverty. (TA.) A poet (of the Benoo-Teiyi, TA) says, فَاـِنْ تَكُنِ الحَوَادِثُ جَرَّفَتْنِى فَلَمْ أَرَ هَالِكًا كَا@بْنَىْ زِيَادِ (assumed tropical:) [ And if misfortunes have destroyed my property, or cattle, and reduced me to poverty, I have not seen any one in a state of perdition like the two sons of Ziyád ]. (S, TA.)