جيف

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the state of a dead body, specifically its decay and foul odor. It extends to describe things that are putrid, stagnant, or morally corrupt, often in a negative or condemnatory context.

Derived headwords

الجِيفَةnoun

1.
corpseboth
A dead body, especially one that has begun to decay and emit a foul smell.
2.
stinking carcassclassical
Specifically refers to a dead body that has become putrid.

جَافَتْverb

1.
to become putridclassical
The corpse became foul-smelling and decayed.

وجافت الجيفة — And the corpse became putrid.

اجْتَافَتْverb

1.
to become putridclassical
The corpse became foul-smelling and decayed.

واجتافت — and became putrid

انجَافَتْverb

1.
to become putridclassical
The corpse became foul-smelling and decayed.

وانجافت — and became putrid

تَجْيِيفًاnoun

1.
becoming putridclassical
The act or process of a corpse becoming putrid or emitting a foul smell.

وجيفت الجيفة تجييفا — And the corpse became putrid, emitting a foul smell.

جِيِّفُواverb

1.
to be putridclassical
They became putrid; referring to people who have a foul odor like a decaying corpse.

أتكلم أناسا جيفوا؟ — Shall I speak to people who are putrid?

جِيَفnoun

1.
corpsesboth
Plural of جيفة (jīfah), referring to dead bodies, especially those that are decaying.

أَجْيَافnoun

1.
corpsesclassical
Another plural of جيفة (jīfah), referring to dead bodies.

جَيَّافnoun

1.
grave robberclassical
One who digs up graves to steal shrouds or bodies; a body-snatcher.
2.
necrophiliacclassical
One who engages in sexual acts with corpses (less common interpretation).

ولا جياف — nor the grave robber

Parallel reading

الجيفة: معروفة جثة الميت، وقيل: جثة الميت إذا أنتنت

The jīfah: is the known corpse of the dead, and it is said: the corpse of the dead when it becomes putrid.

ومنه الحديث: فارتفعت ريح جيفة.

And from it is the Hadith: and a stench of a corpse arose.

لا أعرفن أحدكم جيفة ليل قطرب نهار

Let me not find any of you like a corpse of the night and a worker of the day.

أي يسعى طول نهاره لدنياه وينام طول ليله كالجيفة التي لا تتحرك.

Meaning he strives all his day for his worldly life and sleeps all his night like a corpse that does not move.

وجيفت الجيفة تجييفا إذا أصلت.

And the corpse became putrid, emitting a foul smell, if it became putrid.

أتكلم أناسا جيفوا؟

Shall I speak to people who are putrid?

وهي الجثة الميتة المنتنة، جمع الجيفة، وهي الجثة الميتة المنتنة، جيف ثم أجياف.

And it is the putrid dead body, the plural of jīfah, which is the putrid dead body, jiyaf then ajyāf.

لا يدخل الجنة ديوث ولا جياف

No cuckold nor grave robber shall enter Paradise.

وهو النباش في الجدث

And he is the grave robber in the tomb.

لأنه يكشف الثياب عن جيف الموتى ويأخذها

Because he uncovers the clothes from the corpses of the dead and takes them.

وقيل: سمي به لنتن فعله.

And it is said: he was named so because of the foulness of his deed.