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جعف

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to forceful actions like overthrowing, uprooting, and destruction. It also encompasses a proper noun referring to a specific Yemeni tribe.

Derived headwords

جَعَفَverb
  1. 1.
    to overthrowboth

    To cause someone to fall down forcefully, to strike them down.

  2. 2.
    to uprootboth

    To pull something out forcefully from its place.

انْجَعَفَverb
  1. 1.
    to be uprootedboth

    To be pulled out forcefully from its place.

جُعْفَىname
  1. 1.
    Jufayclassical

    The name of a tribe from Yemen, descended from Ja'fī ibn Sa'd al-'Ushayrah ibn Madhhij.

الجُعْفِيّname
  1. 1.
    belonging to Jufayclassical

    An adjective or nisba referring to someone or something related to the Jufay tribe.

مُنِيمadjective
  1. 1.
    deadlyclassical

    Causing death; making death like sleep. This is used to describe a deadly poison or a fatal wound.

Parallel reading

جعفت الرجل: صرعته.
Ja'aftu the man: I struck him down.
وجعفت الشئ فانجعف
And I uprooted the thing, and it was uprooted.
أي قلعته. فانقلع.
Meaning I pulled it out. And it was pulled out.
وجعفى: أبو قبيلة من اليمن، وهو جعفى ابن سعد العشيرة بن مذحج.
And Ja'fī: the ancestor of a tribe from Yemen, and he is Ja'fī ibn Sa'd al-'Ushayrah ibn Madhhij.
والنسبة إليه كذلك.
And the attribution (nisba) to him is likewise.
قبائل جعفى بن سعد كأنما سعى جمعهم ماء الذعاف
The tribes of Ja'fī ibn Sa'd, as if their gathering was hastened by a deadly poison.
منيم قوله منيم، أي مهلك، جعل الموت نوما.
Munīm, his saying munīm, means deadly, making death like sleep.
ويقال: هذا كقولهم ثأر منيم.
And it is said: This is like their saying 'a deadly vengeance'.
ومنهم عبيد الله بن الحر الجعفي، وجابر الجعفي.
And among them is 'Ubayd Allah ibn al-Ḥurr al-Ja'fī, and Jābir al-Ja'fī.