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غفي

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns states of drowsiness, sleep, and unconsciousness. It also extends to meanings related to undesirable or discarded elements, such as chaff, refuse, or spoiled produce, and can refer to a hunter's hiding place.

Derived headwords

غَفَا، يَغْفُو، غَفْوًاverb
  1. 1.
    to doze offboth

    To fall into a light sleep or drowsiness.

غَفَى، يَغْفِي، غَفْيًاverb
  1. 1.
    to doze offclassical

    To fall into a light sleep or drowsiness. This form is noted as unusual due to the preceding 'wa' (and).

غَفَى، يَغْفَى، غَفْيًاverb
  1. 1.
    to doze offboth

    To fall into a light sleep or drowsiness.

الغَفَىnoun
  1. 1.
    chaff, refuseboth

    Something found in food, like darnel or husks, which is discarded. It can also refer to straw.

  2. 2.
    spoiled produceclassical

    The bad, discarded part of food.

الغَفَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    refuse, drossboth

    The worn-out, ruined, and discarded remnants of things.

  2. 2.
    blight on date palmsclassical

    An affliction that affects date palms, like dust falling on unripe dates, preventing them from maturing and spoiling their taste.

  3. 3.
    crop residueclassical

    The debris of grain fields, or what breaks off from them, or their stalks.

  4. 4.
    discarded animal matterclassical

    What is removed or discarded from their camels.

أَغْفَى الطَّعَامverb
  1. 1.
    food became full of chaffclassical

    When food becomes abundant with its chaff or waste.

أَغْفَى الرَّجُلverb
  1. 1.
    slept on the strawclassical

    A man slept on the straw in his threshing floor.

  2. 2.
    to doze offboth

    To fall into a light sleep or drowsiness.

انْغَفَىverb
  1. 1.
    to breakclassical

    When something becomes broken or shattered.

الغَفَاءَةnoun
  1. 1.
    whiteness on the eyeclassical

    A white film that covers the pupil of the eye.

غَفِيَ الرَّجُلُ، كَرُضِيَ، غَفْيَةًverb
  1. 1.
    to dozeboth

    When a man becomes drowsy or dozes off.

الغَفْيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    hunter's pitboth

    A pit or burrow where a hunter hides to ambush prey.

  2. 2.
    drowsinessboth

    A state of being drowsy or sleepy.

الغُفْيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    hunter's pitboth

    A pit or burrow where a hunter hides to ambush prey.

غَفِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    containing chaffclassical

    Describing wheat that contains chaff or undesirable elements.

الغُفَىnoun
  1. 1.
    coarse husk on datesclassical

    A thick husk that forms on unripe dates, or spoiled dates that become thick like locust wings.

  2. 2.
    disease in strawclassical

    A disease that affects straw, spoiling it.

  3. 3.
    scum, dregsclassical

    The worst part of anything, or the lowest class of people.

Parallel reading

وغفى الطعام، كرمى
And the food contained darnel, like 'ramā'.
نقاه من الغفى، كعصى، اسم لشيء يكون في الطعام كالزوان والقصل
He removed the 'ghafā' from it, like 'asā', which is the name for something found in food, like darnel and husks.
أو الغفى: اسم التبن، كأغفى
Or 'al-ghafā': the name for straw, like 'aghfā'.
وكله مما يخرج من الطعام ويرمى به
And all of it is from what is taken out of food and thrown away.
والغفاء، كغراب: الغثاء وهو البالي الهالك من القمش
And 'al-ghafā', like 'ghurāb': the dross, which is the worn-out, ruined remnants of things.
قصل الطعام وغفاؤه، ممدود، وفغاه، مقصور، وحثالته: كله الرديء المرمى به
The husks of food, its 'ghafā' (extended), its 'faghā' (shortened), and its dregs: all of it is the bad stuff that is thrown away.
الغفاء: آفة للنخل تصيبه كالغبار يقع على البسر فما يدرك
'Al-ghafā': an affliction for date palms that strikes them, like dust falling on unripe dates, preventing them from maturing.
وفي الصحاح: فيمنعه من الإدراك والنضج ويمسخ طعمه
And in Al-Sihah: it prevents it from maturing and ripening and spoils its taste.
الغفاء: حطام البر وما تكسر منه، أو عيدانه
'Al-ghafā': the debris of the grain field and what breaks off from it, or its stalks.
الغفاء: ما ينفونه من إبلهم
'Al-ghafā': what they remove from their camels.
وأغفى الطعام: كثرت نخالته
And 'aghfā' the food: its chaff became abundant.
أغفى الرجل: نام على الغفى: أي التبن في بيدره
A man 'aghfā': he slept on the 'ghafā', meaning the straw in his threshing floor.
وانغفى الشيء: انكسر
And the thing 'inghafā': it broke.
والغفاءة، بالضم: البياض يغشى على الحدقة
And 'al-ghafā'ah', with damma: the whiteness that covers the pupil.
وغفي الرجل، كرضي، غفية: إذا نعس، كأغفى
And the man 'ghafiya', like 'raḍiya', 'ghafyah': when he dozes, like 'aghfā'.
والغفية: الزبية، أو الحفرة التي يكمن فيها الصائد
And 'al-ghafyah': the pit, or the hole in which the hunter lies in wait.
أغفى الرجل: نام، وهي اللغة الفصيحة
A man 'aghfā': he slept, and this is the eloquent usage.
والغفى: الرديء من كل شيء والسفلة من الناس
And 'al-ghafā': the bad of everything and the lowest of people.
وحنطة غفية، كفرحة على النسب: فيها غفى
And wheat 'ghafiyyah', like 'farihah' in derivation: it contains chaff.
والغفى: قشر غليظ يعلو البسر؛ وقيل: هو التمر الفاسد الذي يغلظ ويصير كأجنحة الجراد
And 'al-ghafā': a thick husk that covers the unripe date; and it was said: it is the spoiled date that thickens and becomes like locust wings.
والغفي: داء يقع في التبن يفسده
And 'al-ghafī': a disease that affects straw, spoiling it.
والغفية، بالضم والكسر: لغتان في الغفية بالفتح للزبية
And 'al-ghufayyah', with damma and kasra: two variants for 'al-ghafyah' with fatha for the pit.