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Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of chaff, refuse, and minor debris, often associated with grain or agricultural waste. It also extends to meanings of weakness, decay, and minor ailments or imperfections, including a specific eye condition.

Derived headwords

غَفَىverb

1.
to be abundant with chaffboth
Said of food when its chaff becomes plentiful.

غَفْوnoun

1.
chaffclassical
Refers to something like darnel or straw, often the light, worthless part of grain.

أَغْفَىverb

1.
to clear of chaffclassical
To cleanse something, like grain, from its chaff.
2.
to have abundant chaffboth
Said of food when its chaff becomes plentiful.

الغَفَاءnoun

1.
chaffclassical
The light, worthless part of grain, similar to straw or refuse.
2.
blight on date palmsclassical
A pestilence affecting date palms, like dust that falls on unripe dates, preventing them from maturing.
3.
chaff of the desertclassical
The scattered debris or refuse found in the desert.
4.
refuse from camelsclassical
What is removed or winnowed from camels, possibly referring to shedding or waste.

نام على الغفىphrase

1.
to sleep on strawclassical
To lie down or sleep on the straw or chaff in one's threshing floor.

انْغَفَىverb

1.
to be brokenclassical
To become fractured or shattered.

الغَفَاءَةnoun

1.
white spot on the eyeclassical
A white opacity or film on the pupil of the eye.

غَفِيَverb

1.
to dozeboth
To feel drowsy or to fall into a light sleep.

غَفْيَةnoun

1.
lairclassical
A burrow or den, typically for a wild animal.
2.
drowsinessboth
A state of being sleepy or dozing.

Parallel reading

وغفى الطعام، كرمى: نقاه من الغفى، لشيء كالزوان أو التبن، كأغفى.

And food became abundant with chaff, like a plant that is cleansed from chaff, from something like darnel or straw, like when food is cleared of chaff.

والغفاء: الغثاء، وآفة للنخل كالغبار يقع على البسر، فما يدرك، وحطام البر، وما ينفونه من إبلهم.

And al-Ghafā' is the refuse, and a blight on date palms like dust that falls on unripe dates, so they are not matured, and the debris of the desert, and what they winnow from their camels.

وأغفى الطعام: كثرت نخالته.

And food became abundant with chaff: its bran increased.

وانغفى: انكسر.

And it became broken: it shattered.

والغفاءة، بالضم: البياض على الحدقة.

And al-Ghafā'ah, with dammah: the whiteness on the pupil.

وغفي، كرضي، غفية: نعس.

And he dozed, like 'radiya': he felt drowsy.

والغفية: الزبية.

And al-Ghafiyah: the lair.