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جيف

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

جَيَّافٌ جياف A rifler, or ransacker, of graves; (K, TA;) because he removes the [grave-] clothes from the corpses, and takes them; or, as some say, because of the stinking nature of his act. (TA.)

Derived headwords

جَيَّافٌ
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