جيف

جِيفَةٌ جيفه جيفة [ A carcass, or corpse, i. e.] a dead body [of a beast or a man], that has become stinking; (S, Mgh, K;) or, as some say, in a general sense; [ whether stinking or not: ] (TA:) or, of beasts and cattle, an animal that has died a natural death, or been killed otherwise than in the manner prescribed by the law, and has become stinking: (Msb:) [and the corpse of a man: (see جَيَّافٌ:)] pl. [of mult.] جِيَفٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَجْيَافٌ. (S K.) [Hence,] جِيفَةُ لَيْلٍ قُطْرُبُ نَهَارٍ One who sleeps all the night, and labours all the day. (TA from a trad. [See also art. قطرب.]) IDrd mentions this word in art. جوف, holding the ى to be originally و. (TA.)