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جعف

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of throwing down, overthrowing, or uprooting. It extends to meanings of scarcity, a specific location, and tribal names from Yemen.

Derived headwords

جَعَفَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to throw downboth

    To throw someone down forcefully, striking them against the ground.

  2. 2.
    to uprootboth

    To pull something out by the roots, to uproot it.

  3. 3.
    to overturnboth

    To turn something over or upside down; to cause it to be overturned.

جَعْفًاnoun
  1. 1.
    overthrowboth

    The act of being thrown down or overthrown.

  2. 2.
    uprootingboth

    The act of being uprooted.

انْجَعَفَverb
  1. 1.
    to be thrown downboth

    To be thrown down forcefully and struck against the ground; to be overthrown.

  2. 2.
    to be uprootedboth

    To be pulled out by the roots.

مُنْجَعِفadjective
  1. 1.
    overthrownboth

    One who has been thrown down and struck against the ground; prostrate.

  2. 2.
    uprootedboth

    That which has been uprooted.

الجَعْفnoun
  1. 1.
    severe fallclassical

    A severe fall or overthrow.

  2. 2.
    scarcityclassical

    A small amount or scarcity of possessions.

قَلَبَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to overturnboth

    To turn something over or upside down.

قَلَعَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to uprootboth

    To pull something, like a plant or tree, out by its roots.

انْقِلَاعُهَاnoun
  1. 1.
    uprootingboth

    The act of being uprooted or pulled out.

سَيْلٌ جُعَافadjective
  1. 1.
    overturning floodclassical

    A flood that overturns and sweeps away everything in its path.

جُعَافnoun
  1. 1.
    scarcityclassical

    A small amount; scarcity.

الجَعْفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    place nameclassical

    A place name.

جُعْفِيّname
  1. 1.
    tribal nameclassical

    A name referring to a tribe from Yemen, specifically from the clan of Ja'fari ibn Sa'd al-'Ushirah.

جَعْفَرname
  1. 1.
    tribal nameclassical

    A name referring to a tribe from Yemen, specifically from the clan of Ja'fari ibn Sa'd al-'Ushirah.

Parallel reading

جعفه جعفا فانجعف: صرعه وضرب به الأرض فانصرع
He threw him down with a fall and struck him against the ground, so he was overthrown.
أنه مر بمصعب بن عمير وهو منجعف أي مصروع
That he passed by Mus'ab ibn Umayr while he was overthrown, meaning prostrate.
ضربته فجعبه وجعفه وجأبه وجعفله وجفله إذا صرعه
I struck him, and it means I threw him down, if I prostrated him.
والجعف: شدة الصرع
And al-Ja'f: severity of being thrown down.
وجعف الشيء جعفا: قلبه
And he overturned the thing, meaning he turned it over.
وجعف الشيء والشجرة يجعفها جعفا فانجعفت: قلعها
And he uprooted the thing and the tree, uprooting it, so it was uprooted.
مثل الكافر كمثل الأرزة المجذية على الأرض حتى يكون انجعافها مرة واحدة أي انقلاعها
The likeness of the disbeliever is like the cedar tree uprooted from the earth, until its uprooting is all at once, meaning its removal.
وسيل جعاف: يجعف كل شيء أي يقلبه
And a Ja'af flood: it overturns everything, meaning it turns it over.
وما عنده من المتاع إلا جعف أي قليل
And he has no possessions except a Ja'f, meaning a little.
والجعفة: موضع
And al-Ja'fah: a place.
وجعف: حي من اليمن وجعفي: من همدان
And Ja'f: a tribe from Yemen, and Ja'fi: from Hamdan.
جعفي مثل كرسي في لزوم الياء المشددة في آخره
Ja'fi is like Kursi in the necessity of the doubled ya at its end.
قبائل جعفي بن سعد، كأنما ... سقى جمعهم ماء الزعاف منيم
The tribes of Ja'fari ibn Sa'd, as if ... their gathering was given the water of deadly poison, sleep-inducing.
جعف بنجران تجر القنا، ... ليس بها جعفي بالمشرع
Ja'f in Najran, dragging spears, ... there is no Ja'fi in the place of watering.