جوف

جَائِفٌ ذ Reaching the جَوْف. (Msb.) [Hence,] طَعْنَةٌ جَائِفَةٌ, (S, Mgh, K, &c.,) or جِرَاحَةٌ جَائِفَةٌ, (Msb,) A spear-wound, or the like, that reaches the ↓ جَوْف, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) by which is here meant [the interior of the body or head, or], accord. to IAth, any vital part, as the belly and the brain: (TA:) and sometimes, that penetrates into the جوف: (A 'Obeyd, S, Mgh:) and that passes through also: (A 'Obeyd, S:) and said to be such as is in the pit between the collarbones, and in the pubes; but not in the neck, nor in the throat, nor in the thigh, nor in the leg: (Mgh:) not if it reaches the interior of the bone of the thigh: (Msb:) opposed to جَالِفَةٌ. (S in art. جلف.) ― -b2- Hence, جَائِفَةٌ is applied to (tropical:) A great fault or imperfection or vice. (TA from a trad.) ― -b3- تَلْعَةٌ جَائِفَةٌ A deep [ water-course, &c.: see تلعه]: pl. جَوَائِفُ. (K, TA. [In the CK, قَصِيرَةٌ is erroneously put for قَعِيرَةٌ.]) ― -b4- جَوَائِفُ النَّفْسِ The deep recesses of the جَوْفَ [or chest ] in the places where the soul has its seat; expl. by مَا تَقَعَّرَ مِنَ الجَوْفِ فِى مَقَارِّ الرُّوحِ. (L, K.) So in the phrase, used by El-Farezdak, وَرَدَّ النَّفْسَ بَيْنَ الجَوَائِفِ [ And he drove back the soul into the midst of the deep recesses of the chest ]: (L, TA:) but some read بين الشَّرَاسِفِ. (TA.) ― -b5- الجَائِفُ [ The cephalic vein; ] a vein that runs along the upper arm to the [ cartilage called ] نَغْض of the shoulder-blade; it is the فَلِيق. (TA.)