Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

جَاهِلِىٌّ جاهل جاهلى جاهلي جاهليي [ A pagan; a pagan Arab; one of those who are called collectively ↓ الجَاهِليَّةٌ; and sometimes ↓ مُخَضُرَمُون, pl. of شَاهِدٌ: and particularly, a pagan poet; ] a poet of the first, or earliest, of the four classes which are ranked in chronological order; of the class which was succeeded next by the مُخَضْرَمُون. (Mz, 49th نوع.) [See also شَاهِدٌ.]

الجَاهِلِيَّةٌ الجاهليه الجاهلية جاهلي جاهلية : see what next precedes. ― -b2- [Also, or] ↓ الجَاهِلِيَّةُ الجَهْلَاآءُ, (JK, S, K,) in which the latter word is a corroborative, (S, K,) as in لَيْلَةٌ لَيْلَاآءُ &c., (S,) [ The time, or state, of ignorance, or paganism; or of intense ignorance; ] the time of the فَتْرَة [or cessation of the mission of apostles, and of the effacement of the signs of their religion ]. (JK.) One says, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى الجَاهِلِيَّةِ الجَهْلَاآءِ [ That was in the time, or state, of paganism, or of intense ignorance ]. (S.)

مَجْهَلٌ مجهل An affair, or an event, or a case, and a land, and a habit, a property, a quality, a practice, or an action, that induces a man to believe a thing to be different from what it is. (Er-Rághib, TA.) A desert (مَفَازَةٌ) in which are no signs of the way. (S.) And أَرْضٌ مَجْهَلٌ A land in which are no signs of the way: (TA:) or in which one will not go aright (K, TA) unless by means of the [ signs of the way called ] اآرَام: (TA:) pl. مَجَاهِلُ, which is the contr. of مَعَالِمُ: (TA:) accord. to the K, it has neither dual nor pl.; but it has both, as 'Iyád and others have affirmed. (MF, TA.)

مِجْهَلٌ مجهل : see جَيْهَلَةٌ.

مَجْهَلَةٌ مجهل مجهله مجهلة [ A cause of, or an incitement to, ignorant, silly, foolish, or wrong, conduct; ] a thing that incites one to الجَهْل. (S, K.) Hence the saying, الوَلَدُ مَجْهَلَةٌ [ Children are a cause of silly, or foolish, conduct ]. (S.)

مِجْهَلَةٌ مجهل مجهله مجهلة : see جَيْهَلَةٌ.

مِجْهَالٌ مجهال (tropical:) A she-camel light, brisk, or agile, in her pace, or going. (TA.)

مَجْهُولٌ مجهول [ Unknown ]. You say, رَكِبْتُ المَفَازَةٌ عَلَى مَجْهُولِهَا [ I ventured upon traversing the desert notwithstanding its unknown character ]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- [A man of unknown origin. A book of unknown authorship. ― -b3- In grammar, The passive voice. ] ― -b4- نَاقَةٌ مَجْهُولَةٌ (tropical:) A she-camel that has never been milked: or that has no brand upon her: (K, TA:) and (tropical:) a she-camel that has never conceived. (Z, TA.)

مُسْتَجْهِلٌ مستجهل Making himself like the جَاهِل [or ignorant; feigning himself ignorant ]: or reckoning, or esteeming, جَاهِل. (Har p. 572.)

1 جَهُمَ جهم , aor. جَهُمَ , inf. n. جُهُومَةٌ (S, K) and جَهَامَةٌ, (K,) He (a man) became frowning, or contracted, in face; or grinning in face, with a frowning, or contraction, or a stern, an austere, or a morose, look: (S:) or he was, or became, coarse, or rough, and contracted, and ugly, in face. (K.) ― -b2- Also, said of the pubes, It was coarse, rough, or big. (TA.) -A2- جَهَمَهُ, (S, K,) and جَهِمَهُ, aor. جَهَمَ , in both instances; (K;) and ↓ تجهّمهُ, (S, K,) and لَهُ ↓ تجهّم; (JK, K;) He grinned, frowning, or looking sternly, austerely, or morosely, in his face: (S:) or he met him, or regarded him, with a displeasing, (JK, K, TA,) frowning, or grinning and frowning, (TA,) face: (JK, K, TA:) or ↓ تجهّم signifies he showed a sour, a crabbed, or an austere, face. (TK in art. عبس.) A poet says, ↓ الجَهُومَا ↓ وَبَلْدَةٍ تَجَهَّمُ زَجَرْتُ فِيهَا عَيْهَلًا رَسُومَا (S, * TA,) i. e. [ Many a region ] that exhibits to the impotent that which he dislikes, [or that frowns upon the weak, or impotent, I have chidden therein a strong she-camel that leaves the marks of her footsteps upon the ground. ] (S.) You say also, الكِرَامَ ↓ الدَّهْرُ يَتَجَهَّمُ (tropical:) [ Fortune frowns upon the generous ]. (TA.) And أَمَلِى ↓ تَجَهَّمَنِى (tropical:) [ My object of hope frowned upon me ] is said when one has not attained his object of hope. (TA.)

4 أَجْهَمَتِ السَّمَاآءُ ذ The sky had clouds such as are termed جَهَام. (K.)

5 تَجَهَّمَ see 1, in six places.

8 اجتهم أج أجتهم اجتهم He entered upon, (K,) or journeyed in, (A, TA,) the portion of the night termed جُهْمَة. (A, K, TA.)

جَهْمٌ جهم A coarse, or rough, and contracted, and ugly, face; as also ↓ جَهِمٌ; (K;) or, as in some of the lexicons, ↓ جَهِيمٌ. (TA.) And جَهْمُ الوَجْهِ Frowning, or contracted, in face; or grinning in face, with a frowning, or contraction, or a stern, an austere, or a morose, look: (S, Mgh:) or coarse, or rough, in face: (JK, TA:) applied to a man: (JK, S, Mgh, TA:) and to a lion. (JK, TA.) And [hence,] الجَهْمُ The lion. (K.) -A2- See also جَهُومٌ.

جَهِمٌ جهم : see جَهْمٌ.

جَهْمَةٌ جهم جهمه جهمة : see جُهْمَةٌ, in two places. -A2- Also A big cooking-pot. (K.)

جُهْمَةٌ جهم جهمه جهمة and ↓ جَهْمَةٌ, (JK, S, K,) both mentioned by Fr, (S,) A portion of the night: (JK:) the first of the last portions of the night, (JK, S, K, TA,) extending [app. from midnight ] to near the period a little before daybreak: (TA:) or the remaining portion of the darkness of the last part of the night: (K:) or the former signifies, [or each,] the beginning of the night, extending to a fourth part: or, as some say, the middle of the night: (KL:) pl. of the former جُهَمٌ. (JK.) You say, مَضَى مِنَ اللَّيْلِ جُهْمَةٌ and ↓ جَهْمَةٌ [app. meaning A portion, or a portion at the commencement of the latter part, of the night passed ]. (A'Obeyd, TA.) -A2- Also the former, Eighty camels: or the like. (K.)

جَهَامٌ جهام Clouds in which is no water: (JK, S, K:) or that have poured forth their water (K, TA) with the wind. (TA.)

جُهُومٌ جهوم , applied to a man, (JK, S,) Impotent; (JK, S, K;) weak; as also ↓ جَهْمٌ. (K.) See an ex. in the first paragraph.

جَهِيمٌ جهيم : see جَهْمٌ.

جَهَنَّمُ جهنم [ Hell; or Hell-fire; ] (T, S, K, &c.;) a name of the fire with which God will punish, (T, S,) in the life to come, (T,) his [ disobedient and unrepentant and unbelieving ] servants; (S;) a proper name of the abode of punishment: (Bd, ii. 202:) a word rendered quasi-coordinate to the quinqueliteral-radical class by the doubling of the third letter: (S:) accord. to some, it is an Arabic word, applied to the fire of the world to come because of its depth; [see the last paragraph;] (T, TA;) or originally syn. with النَّارُ [ fire, or the fire ]; (Bd in ii. 202;) and imperfectly decl. because determinate and of the fem. gender: (T, S:) accord. to others, it is an arabicized word, (T, S, Bd ubi suprà,) imperfectly decl. because determinate and of foreign origin; (T, TA;) some say, originally Persian; (S;) others, from the Hebrew كهنام, (TA,) [or as Golius says, ? “ the Valley of Hinnom, ” where children were burned alive as sacrifices to the idol Moloch.] ― -b2- See also جِهِنَّامٌ.

[ جَهَنَّمِىٌّ جهنم جهنمى جهنمي Of, or relating to, جَهَنَّم, i. e. Hell, or Hell-fire. ]

جِهِنَّامٌ جهنام (S, K, Ham p. 817) and [جَهِنَّامٌ and جُهِنَّامٌ], with each of the three vowels (K, TA) to the ج (TA,) [but accord. to the K it would rather seem to be جَهَنَّامٌ and جُهُنَّامٌ,] and ↓ جَهَنَّمٌ, (K,) applied to a well (رَكِيَّةٌ, S, K, or بِئْرٌ, Ham), Deep; (S, K, Ham;) in which he who falls into it perishes. (Ham.)

جَوٌّ جو The air: (K:) or [the atmosphere; i. e.] what is between the heaven, or sky, and the earth; (S, Mgh;) the air [or the region ] between the heaven, or sky, and the earth: pl. أَجْوَاآءٌ. (TA.) فِى جَوِّ السَّمَاآءِ, in the Kur [xvi. 81], means In the air between the heaven, or sky, and the earth: (Jel:) or in the middle of the sky: (Katádeh, TA:) or in the air that is remote from the earth. (Bd.) ― -b2- A low, or depressed, part of the ground; (M, K;) as also ↓ جَوَّةٌ: (K:) or a wide part of a valley: (S, Msb:) pl. (in the latter sense, Msb, or in the former, K, TA) جِوَاآءٌ (Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَجْوِيَةٌ. (TA.) It has the latter meaning in the saying of Tarafeh, [addressing a lark,] خَلَا لَكِ الجَوُّ فَبِيضِى وَا@صْفِرِى [ The wide part of the valley has become vacant for thee; so lay thine eggs, and whistle ]. (AA, S.) Az says, I entered, with an Arab of the desert, a [hollow place in which water collected, termed a] دَحْل, in El-Khalsà, and when we came to the water, he said, هٰذَا جَوٌّ مِنَ المَاءِ لَا يُوقَفُ عَلَى أَقْصَاهُ [ This is an abyss of water: one knows not the utmost extent of it ]. (TA.) ― -b3- A vacant, void, or desolate, place, in which is no one to cheer by his company. (Ham p. 293.) ― -b4- The inside, or interior, of a house or tent; (K;) and of anything; of the dial. of Syria; also termed ↓ جَوَّةٌ, (TA,) and ↓ جَوَّانِىٌّ; (K; [in the CK ا is erroneously put for ن;]) in which last, the ا and أُرِيدُ جَوًّا وَيُرِيدُ بَرًّا are augmentatives for the purpose of corroboration. (TA.) ― -b5- [Hence,] جَوَّةٌ I desire concealment, or secrecy, and he desires publicity. (A in art. بر.)

جَوَّةٌ جو جوه جوة : see جَوٌّ, in two places.

جَوَّانِىٌّ جوانى جواني : see جَوٌّ. Hence the saying of Selmán, مَنْ أَصْلَحَ جَوَّانِيَّهُ أَصْلَحَ ا@للّٰهُ بَرَّانِيَّهُ [explained in art. بر]. (TA.) [It generally signifies Inner, inward, or interior; and secret, or private; opposed to بَرَّانِىٌّ; and is now vulgarly pronounced جُوَّانِىْ.] It is a rel. n. [irregularly formed] from جَوٌّ signifying “ any low, or depressed, part of the ground. ” (T in art. بر.)

1 يَجُوْءُ يج يجوء is a dial. var. of يَجِىْءُ [aor. of جَاآءَ and meaning He comes, or will come ]: (K:) mentioned by Sb, who gives as an ex. أَنَا أَجُوْؤُكَ وَأَنْبُؤُكَ [for انا أَجِيْؤُكَ وأَنْبَؤُكَ, I will come to thee and inform thee ]. (TA.)

جُوَالِقٌ جوالق and جُوَالَقٌ and جِوَالِقٌ: see art. جلق.

1 جَابَهُ جاب جابه جابة , (S, * TA,) aor. يَجُوبُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. جَوْبٌ (S, A, K, TA) and تَجْوَابٌ, (Har p. 336,) He made a hole in it; or rent, or tore, it; (S, A, K, TA;) as also ↓ اجتابهُ: (K, * TA:) he made a hole through, or in, or into, it; perforated, pierced, or bored, it: (TA:) he cut it: (S, A, K, TA:) he cut it in like manner as one cuts a جَيْب [or an opening at the neck and bosom of a shirt &c. ]: (L, TA:) he made, or cut, a hole in the middle of it; cut a piece out of the middle of it; hollowed it out; or excavated it. (TA.) You say, جاب الصَّخْرَةَ He made a hole in the rock; (A, TA;) perforated, pierced, or bored, it. (TA.) Hence, in the Kur [lxxxix. 8], وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالوَادِ (Fr, S, TA) And Thamood, who made holes in the rocks, (Fr, TA,) or cut the rocks, (Bd, Jel,) [or hollowed them out, ] and made them dwellings, in the valley, (Fr, Bd, Jel, TA,) i. e., in Wádi-l-Kurà. (Bd, Jel.) You say also, جاب القَمِيصَ, (S, A, K,) aor. بَجُوبُ, [inf. n. جَوْبٌ;] (S, K, and Msb in art. جيب;) and aor. يَجِيبُ, (S, K,) [inf. n., app., جِيبٌ, originally جَوْبٌ; see a verse cited below, and a remark of Sh thereon;] and ↓ جوّبهُ; (A, K;) He hollowed out, or cut out in a round form, the جَيْب of the shirt: (S, and Msb in art. جيب:) or he cut the جَيْب of the shirt: (A:) or he made a جَيْب to the shirt; (K;) as also جَيَّبَهُ, (S, and Msb in art. جيب,) inf. n. تَجْيِيبٌ. (S.) And جاب الثَّوْبَ He cut the garment, or piece of cloth; [or cut it out; ] as also ↓ اجتابهُ. (A.) And جاب النَّعْلَ, inf. n. جَوْبٌ, He cut out the sandal. (TA.) And جاب القَرْنُ [i. e. جاب اللَّحْمَ] The horn cut the flesh and came forth. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, also,] جاب, (S, A, Msb, TA,) aor. يَجُوبُ (S, Msb, TA) and يَجِيبُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. جَوْبٌ; (TA;) and ↓ اجتاب; (S, A, TA;) (tropical:) He traversed, or crossed, (S, A, * Msb, TA,) or cut through by journeying, (TA,) a country, (S, TA,) or a land, (Msb,) and a desert, and the darkness: (A, * TA:) and جَوْبٌ signifies likewise the pouncing down of a bird. (TA.) A rájiz says, بَاتَتْ تَجِيبُ أَدْعَجَ الظَّلَامِ جِيبَ البِيَطْرِ مِدْرَعَ الهُمَامِ (assumed tropical:) [ She passed the night cutting through the black darkness, like as the tailor cuts through the woollen tunic of the valiant chief, making the opening at the neck and bosom ]: (S: [but in one copy, instead of جِيبَ, I here find جَيْبَ; and in art. بطر, شَقَّ:]) and Sh remarks that this [verb تجيب, or the inf. n. جيب,] is not from الجَيْبُ [meaning “ the opening at the neck and bosom ” of a shirt &c.], because its medial radical is و, and that of الجيب is ى: (TA:) [i. e., جاب, aor. يجيب, is originally جَوَبَ, aor. يَجْوِبُ.] One says also, of news, يَجُوبُ الأَرْضَ مِنْ بَلَدٍ اـِلَى بَلَدٍ (assumed tropical:) [ It traverses the earth from country to country, or the land from town to town ]. (S, TA.) And of proverbs, تَجُوبُ البِلَادَ (assumed tropical:) They are current in the countries, or towns. (TA.) ― -b3- It is said in a trad., جِيبَتِ العَرَبُ عَنَّا كَمَا جِيبَتِ الرَّحَا عَنْ قُطْبِهَا (assumed tropical:) The Arabs were rent from us, like as the mill-stone is rent from its pivot; we being in the midst, and they around us. (TA.) -A2- جَابَتِ الدَّعْوَةُ: see أَجْوَبُ.

2 جوّب جوب : see 1. ― -b2- Also, said of the light of the moon, (assumed tropical:) It illumined, and rendered clear, [by penetrating, ] a dark night. (TA.) -A2- جوّب عَلَيْهِ [from جَوْبٌ “ a shield ”] He shielded him. (TA: so accord. to an explanation of the act. part. n.)

3 جَاْوَبَ [جاوبهُ, inf. n. مُجَاوَبَةٌ, He returned him answer for answer, or answers for answers; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, with him; bandied words with him. ] See 6, in two places.

4 اجابهُ أجاب أجابه اـجابة اجابه اجابة جابه , (S, A, Msb, TA,) inf. n. اـِجَابَةٌ (S, Msb, K, * TA) and اـِجَابٌ (K, * TA) and ↓ جَابَةٌ, (Kr, TA,) or this last is a simple subst., (AHeyth, S, TA,) like طَاعَةٌ and طَاقَةٌ, (S, A,) used in the place of an inf. n.; (AHeyth, TA;) and ↓ استجابهُ (A, K, TA) and ↓ اِسْتَجُوَبَهُ and لَهُ ↓ اِستجاب; (K, TA;) [for] اـِجَابَةٌ and ↓ اِسْتِجَابَةٌ are syn.; (S, TA;) He answered him, replied to him, responded to him, (Msb, TA,) either affirmatively or negatively. (Msb.) And اجاب قَوْلَهُ He answered, or replied to, his saying. (Msb.) And اجاب عَنْ سُؤَالِهِ (S, TA) He answered, or replied to, his question. (TA.) And اجاب دُعَاآءَهُ, (Msb, TA, *) and دُعَاآءَهُ ↓ استجاب, (S, A, TA,) and لَهُ ↓ استجاب, (Msb,) and مِنْهُ ↓ استجاب, (Har p. 307,) said of God, (S, A, Msb, TA,) [ He answered his prayer; ;] He accepted his prayer; (Msb;) He recompensed his prayer by gift and acceptance. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [ii. 182], أُجِيبُ دَعْوةَ الدَّاعِى اـِذَا لِى ↓ دَعَانِ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا [ I answer the prayer of him who prayeth to me; ] therefore let them answer me; (TA;) i. e., let them answer my call by obedience, (Jel,) when I call them to belief and obedience: (Bd:) accord. to Fr, what is here meant [by the last verb] is تَلْبِيَة [q. v. in art. لبى]: (TA:) [or let them give me their assent, or consent, to my call; or let them obey my call: for you say, اجابهُ اـِلَى شَىْءٍ and عَلَى شَىْءٍ, (for the latter of which there is authority in this art. in the TA, but the former is more common,) and] له ↓ استجاب, He obeyed him, or complied with his desire, in doing a thing, [or consented to do it, ] when summoned, or invited, to do it. (Msb.) ― -b2- اجابت الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:) The land produced plants, or herbage. (Ham p. 94.) ― -b3- دَمْعٌ يُجِيبُ (assumed tropical:) Tears running, or flowing; as though called for and answering the call. (Har p. 71.) -A2- The forms أَجْوَبَ and أَجْوِبْ [as verbs of wonder] are not used: therefore you say, مَا أَجْوَدَ جَوَابَهُ and أَجْوِدْ بِجَوَابِهِ [ How good is his answer, or reply! ]; not مَا أَجْوَبَهُ nor أَجْوِبْ بِهِ: nor do you say, هُوَ أَجْوَبُ مِنْكَ [meaning He is better in answering, or replying, than thou: but see أَجْوَبُ, below]. (Sb, TA.)

6 تجاوبوا جاوب تجاوب تجاوبوا i. q. بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا ↓ جَاوَبَ [ They returned one another answer for answer, or answers for answers; they answered one another; replied, one to another; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, together; bandied words, one with another ]: (K:) ↓ مُجَاوَبَةٌ and تَجَاوُبٌ both signify i. q. تَحَاوُرٌ. (S, TA.) In like manner one says of turtle-doves, (A,) of pigeons, of braying camels, and of neighing horses. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] يَتَجَاوَبُ أَوَّلُ كَلَامِهِ وَاآخِرُهُ (tropical:) The first and the last parts of his speech correspond, or are consistent. (A, TA.)

7 انجاب أنجاب اـنجاب انجاب ٱنجاب [ It (a garment) became rent, or slit: see مُنْجَابٌ]. ― -b2- Said of a cloud, or a collection of clouds, It cleared away [ so as to leave an open space ]. (S, Msb.) It is said in a trad., وَا@نْجَابَ السَّحَابُ عَنِ المَدِينَةِ حَتَّى صَارَكَالاـِ كْلِيلِ And the clouds became gathered and drawn together, and cleared away from the city [so that they became like a crown ]. (TA.) ― -b3- [ It (a place) was, or became, clear, open, or unobstructed. ] See جَوْبَةٌ -A2- انجابت She (a camel) stretched forth her neck, to be milked; (K;) as though she complied with the desire of her milker to be restrained [for that purpose]: but Fr says that he had not found a verb of this measure from أَجَابَ. (TA.)

8 اجتاب اجتاب : see 1, in three places. ― -b2- He dug a well. (K.) And اجتابت, said of a wild cow, She hollowed out, or excavated, a place to shelter herself from the rain. (TA.) ― -b3- He put on, i. e. clad himself with, (T, S, K,) a garment, (T,) or a shirt; (S, K;) he entered into a shirt: and in like manner, (assumed tropical:) the darkness. (TA.)

10 استجاب 10 and اِسْتَجْوَبَ , inf. n. اِسْتِجَابَةٌ: see 4, nine places.

جَابٌ جذاب : see جَأُبٌ, in art. جأب

جَوْبٌ جوب [an inf. n. (of 1, q. v.,) used in the sense of a pass. part. n. Hence,] a tribe is said to be جَوْبُ أَبٍ as meaning Cut [ as it were ] from one father; [sprung from the loins of one father; ] occurring in a trad. (TA.) ― -b2- A fire-place; [so called because hollowed out;] syn. كَانُونٌ. (K.) ― -b3- A large دَلْو [or bucket; because of its hollow form]. (Kr, K.) ― -b4- A shield; (S, K;) as also ↓ جَوْبَةٌ (TA) and ↓ مِجْوَبٌ: (K:) [see a verse cited voce يَلَبٌ:] pl. of the first أَجْوَابٌ. (TA.) ― -b5- A garment like the بَقِيرَة: [so called because it has a slit in the middle, through which the head is put:] (S:) or a woman's shift. (K.) ― -b6- See also جَوْبَةٌ -A2- [ A kind, or sort. ] You say, فُلَانٌ فِيهِ جَوْبَانِ مِنْ خُلُقٍ [ In such a one are two kinds of temper, or disposition ]; i. e., he does not remain in one temper, or disposition. (TA.) And Dhu-Rummeh says, جَوْبَيْنِ مِنْ هَمَاهِمِ الأَغْوَالِ meaning Thou hearest two kinds of the sounds, or voices, [or mutterings, ] of the ghools. (TA.)

جَيْبٌ جيب meaning The [ part called ] طَوْق of a shirt, (see art. جيب,) is, accord. to some, from the root جوب, because the middle of it is cut out: accord. to others, from the root جيب. (TA.)

جَابَةٌ جاب جابه جابة is an inf. n. of أَجَابَ, (Kr, TA,) or a simple subst. (A Heyth, S, TA) used in the place of an inf. n. (A Heyth, TA. See 4.) Hence, أَسَاآءَ سَمْعًا فَأَسَاآءَ جَابَةً [ He heard ill, and therefore answered ill ]: (S, A, K:) a prov., and therefore not to be rehearsed otherwise than in the original way, as above: [not to be altered by the substitution of اـِجَابَةٌ or اـِجَابًا for جَابَةً:] its origin is said to have been this: Sahl [or Suheyl] Ibn-' Amr had an insane son; and a man said to him, أَيْنَ أَمُّكَ, i. e. “ Whither is thy tending? ” to which he (thinking that he said, أَيْنَ أُمُّكَ [“ Where is thy mother ! ”],) answered, “ She is gone to buy flour: ” whereupon his father uttered the words of this prov. (TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 603.]) See also جَوَابٌ -A2- جَابَةُ المِدْرَى is a dial. var. of جَأْبَةُ المدرى: (K: [see art. جأب:]) accord. to AO and Sh, it is without ء: accord. to the former, it means A doe-gazelle when her horn has come forth; and accord. to the latter, when her horn has cut the skin and come forth: (T, TA:) or it means having smooth horns; and if so, it has no [known] derivation. (TA.) [See also art. درى.]

جَوْبَةٌ جوب جوبه جوبة A depressed place amid the houses of a people, into which the rain-water flows: (TA:) a pit, an excavation, or a hollow, (T, K, TA,) round and wide: (T, TA:) a gap, or an opening, in the clouds; and in mountains: and a clear space (↓ مَوْضِعٌ يَنْجَابُ) in a [stony tract such as is called ] حَرَّة: (S:) a place (AHn, K) that is clear, (AHn,) plain and smooth, (AHn, K,) such as is termed دَارَةٌ, with few trees, like a round غَائط [or wide and depressed tract ], (AHn,) in a tract that is hard, or hard and level, or level but rough, (AHn, K,) and such as is of large extent, not in sands nor in a mountain; so called because [for the most part] clear of trees: (AHn:) and an intervening space between houses; (K;) as also ↓ جَوْبٌ: (TA:) and a wide, or spacious, and smooth tract, between two lands: (K:) any wide gap, or opening: any gap, or opening, without buildings: (TA:) pl. جُوَبٌ (S, K) and جَوْبَاتٌ (TA.) ― -b2- The former of these pls. also signifies The pudenda of women; syn. فُرُوجٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- See also جَوْبٌ

جِيبَةٌ جيب جيبه جيبة i. q. جَوَابٌ, q. v. (S, K.) So in the phrase, اـِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ الجِيَبةِ [ Verily he is good in respect of answer or reply or response: or here it seems rather to signify, agreeably with analogy, the mode, or manner, of answering or replying or responding ]. (S.)

جَوَابٌ جابية جواب An answer, a reply, or a response, (Msb, TA, *) to a letter, or writing, and to a saying, or question; and this is either affirmative or negative: (Msb:) [accord. to some, it is only after a question or demand; but this is not correct; for it is often a reply to an affirmation:] ↓ جِيبَةٌ [q. v.] is syn. therewith; (S, K;) and so are ↓ جَابَةٌ [q. v.] and ↓ مَجُوبَةٌ: (K:) the pl. of جواب is أَجْوِبَةٌ and جَوَابَاتٌ (Msb.) [Hence, in grammar, حَرْفُ جَوَابٍ A responsive, or replicative, particle. And جَوَابُ شَرْطٍ An apodosis; the complement, or correlative, of a condition; as أَكْرَمْتُكَ in the saying, اـِنْ جِئْتَنِى أَكْرَمْتُكَ; also called جَزَاآءُ شَرْطٍ, and جَوَابُ جَزَاآءٍ. And جَوَابُ قَسَمٍ The complement of an oath. ] ― -b2- Also The sound of a bird pouncing down from the sky. (TA from a trad.)

جَوَّابٌ جابية جواب [ An excellent well-digger: ] a surname given to Málik Ibn-Kaab El-Kilábee, (AO, ISk, S, K, *) because he dug not a well nor bored a rock without making it to yield water. (AO, ISk, S.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A traverser of countries; one who travels much. (TA.) Hence, جَوَّابُ لَيْلٍ سَرْمَدٍ (assumed tropical:) One who travels all the night without sleeping. (TA.) And جَوَّابٌ جَأّبٌ (assumed tropical:) One who traverses the countries and gains wealth. (TA.) And جَوَّابُ الفَلَاةِ (assumed tropical:) The guide of the desert. (TA.)

الجَائِبُ العَيْنِ ذ The lion. (K.)

جَائِبَةُ خَبَرٍ ذ (tropical:) News that traverses the earth, from country to country, or town to town: (S, A: *) or i. q. طَرِيقَة خَارِقَة [app. a mistranscription for طِرِيفَة خارقة, meaning recent news that traverses the land ]. (K.) And [the pl.] جَوَائِبُ (assumed tropical:) Tidings from afar. (K.) And جَوَائِبُ الأَمْثَالِ (assumed tropical:) Current proverbs; such as traverse the countries. (TA.)

أَجْوَبُ ذ , [see 4,] in the following question, put to Mohammad, (TA,) أَىُّاللَّيْلِ أَجْوَبُ دَعْوَةً is either from جُبْتُ الأَرْضَ (K, TA) “ I traversed the land, ” (TA,) and signifies (tropical:) More, or most, penetrating to the places whence the answer is imagined to proceed; (K, TA;) or [it signifies more, or most, quick in being answered, ] from الدَّعْوَةُ ↓ جَابَتِ, of the measure فَعُلَت, [i. e., originally جَوُبَت,] “ the prayer became answered, ” which, however, is a verb not in use, like as فَقِيرٌ and شَدِيدٌ are imagined to be derived from فَقُرَ and شَدُدَ: (Z, TA:) or it signifies more, or most, quick of answer, [from أَجَابَ,] and is [anomalous, and] similar to أَطْوَعُ [“ more obedient ”], from الطَّاعَةُ, [i. e. from أَطَاعَ “ he obeyed, ”] (M, L, TA,) and to أَعْطَى [“ more, or most, excellent in giving, ” from أَعْطَى “ he gave ”], and لَوَاقِحَ [pl. of لَاقِحَةٌ a “ fecundating ” wind, (in the Kur xv. 22,) from أَلْقَحَ “ he, or it, fecundated ”], (M, L, K, TA,) and the like; (M, L, TA;) and if so, the word is anomalous because a word of the measure أَفْعَلُ of this kind is not derived from a verb of more than three letters, except in certain cases of deviation from the constant course of speech: (L, TA:) the meaning is, (tropical:) What part of the night is that [in which prayer most quickly penetrates? or] in which prayer is most quick in being answered? (Mgh:) or what part of the night is that in which God is most quick in answering prayer? (L, TA.)

مَجُوبُ مجوب [pass. part. n. of 1, q. v.:] Anything cut in the middle, or of which the middle is cut out; as also ↓ مُجَوَّبٌ; (T, TA;) and the latter, anything hollowed out in the middle. (TA.)

مِجْوَبٌ مجوب An iron instrument with which one cuts [or perforates or hollows out ]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- See also جَوْبٌ

المُجِيبُ المجيب مجيب one of the names of God; The Answerer of prayer; He who recompenses prayer and petition by gift and acceptance. (TA.)