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جُفٌّ جف The spathe of the palm-tree; the envelope of the طَلْع; (AA, A'Obeyd, S, K;) as also جُبٌّ; (AA, TA;) or [in other words] the قِيقَآء of the طلع; (K;) i. e., the envelope that is with the وَلِيع: (Lth, K:) or, as some say, the envelope of the طلع when it has become dry: (TA:) pl. جُفُوفٌ. (A' Obeyd, TA.) [See جُبٌّ.] ― -b2- A receptacle such as is termed وِعَآء that is not to be tied round at its mouth. (K, TA.) ― -b3- An old, worn-out water-skin or milk-skin, of which half is cut off and made into a bucket: (S, K:) and sometimes it is made of the lower part of a palm-tree hollowed out: (Lth, S, K: *) or a thing that is hollowed out in (فِى [probably a mistranscription for مِن, i. e. of]) the trunks of palm-trees: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or a worn-out milk-skin or butter-skin: (IAar, TA:) or a water-skin, or milk-skin, of which part is cut off at the fore legs, and in which the beverage called نَبِيذ is prepared: (Kt, TA:) or the lower half of a water-skin or milk-skin, made into a bucket: (IDrd, TA:) or a thing of camel's skin, like a vessel, or like a bucket, in which the rainwater is taken, holding half the quantity of a water-skin or the like. (TA.) ― -b4- An old man; (K;) as being likened to an old, worn-out water-skin or milk-skin: mentioned in the L from ElHejeree, and by Sgh from Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) ― -b5- Anything hollow, such as has something within it, like the nut, and the مَغْدَة [or fruit of the تَنْضُب, &c.: in the CK, the مَعِدَة]. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) ― -b6- The body, or substance, (شَخْص,) of a thing. (TA.) ― -b7- An obstruction that one sees between him and the kibleh. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) -A2- هُوَ جُفُّ مَالٍ He is a good manager of cattle, (K,) acquainted with the art of pasturing them, and of collecting them at their proper time in the place of pasture. (TA.) -A3- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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