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1 جَفَّ جف , (S, Mgh, Msb,) sec. pers. جَفَفْتَ, (K,) aor. يَجِفُّ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and يَجَفُّ, (S, K,) the latter aor. mentioned by AZ, but rejected by Ks; (S;) and sec. pers. جَففْتَ, aor. يَجَفُّ, (Sgh, Msb, K,) of the dial. of Benoo-Asad; (Msb;) inf. n. جَفَافٌ and جُفُوفٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) which are assigned by J and Sgh to جَفَّ aor. يَجِفٌّ; (TA;) It (a thing, Mgh, or a garment, S, Msb, K, and also said of other things, S) was, or became, dry; it dried, or dried up. (Mgh, Msb.) Hence the saying, مَنِ ا@حْتَلَمَ ثُمَّ أَصْبَحَ عَلَى جَفَافٍ He who experiences an emission of semen in sleep, then rises in the morning with what is on his garment, of the semen, dry. (Mgh.) And جَفَّ النَّهْرُ, an elliptical phrase, for جَفَّ مَآءُ النَّهْرِ [The water of the river dried up]. (Msb.) And فُلَانٌ لَا يَجِفُّ لِبْدُهُ Such a one does not remit, or become remiss, in his work, or labour: (TA:) or does not cease to go to and fro. (Har p. 589.) ― -b2- جَفَّ, inf. n. جُفُوفٌ, said of a man, He was, or became, silent; he did not speak. (Msb.) -A2- جَفَفْتُ الشَّىْءَ إِِلَىَّ, aor. أَجُفُّ, inf. n. جَفٌّ, I collected the thing to me. (Nawádir of AZ, TA.) ― -b2- جَفُّوا أَمْوَالَهُمْ They collected together their camels, and took them away. (Sgh, * K, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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