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جِلْفٌ جلف A [jar of the kind called] دَنّ: (M, K:) or an empty دَنّ: (AO, S, Msb, K:) this is said (S, Msb) by AO (S) to be the primary signification of the word: (S, Msb:) or the lower part of a دَنّ when it is broken: (ISd, Sgh, K:) and a [receptacle such as is called] ظَرْف, (AA, S, Hr, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, طَرْف,]) and وِعَآء, (AA, S, Msb, K,) of any kind, (AA, S, Msb,) such as a saddle-bag, or pair of saddlebags, and a sack, in which bread or other food is kept: (Hr, TA:) pl. [of mult.] جُلُوفٌ (S, M, Msb) and [of pauc.] أَجْلَافٌ and أَجْلُفٌ, which last is rare. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also A [skin of the kind called] زِقّ without head and without legs. (IAar, K.) ― -b3- And A skinned animal, (AO, S,) or a skinned sheep or goat, (K,) of which the belly has been taken forth, (AO, S, K,) and the head and legs of which have been cut off; (K;) the body of a skinned sheep or goat, without head and without belly and without legs: or, as some say, a body of any kind without a head upon it: (L:) or a beast without fat, and without back [to bear], and without belly to conceive: (IAth, TA:) or the skin of a sheep or goat, and of a camel: (As, Msb:) pl. أَجْلَافٌ (Sb, L) and sometimes أَجْلُفٌ: (Sb, TA:) and [it is also said that] أَجْلَافُ الشَّاةِ signifies the shinned sheep or goat that is without head and without legs and without belly. (S, Msb.) ― -b4- Hence, i. e., from اجلاف الشاة, (S, Msb,) (tropical:) Rude in disposition or in make; coarse, or churlish; (S, M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ جَلِيفٌ ; (K;) meaning that the person so termed is empty, without intellect: (M, TA:) applied to a DesertArab, (S,) or to an Arab: (so in a copy of the Msb:) or it is so applied as though meaning one with his skin; not having assumed the gentle and soft habits of the people of the towns or villages or cultivated lands; for when one does this, it is as though he pulled off his skin and clad himself with another: (Msb:) or (tropical:) stupid, foolish, or unsound in intellect; likened to a skinned sheep or goat because of the weakness of his intellect. (IAth, TA.) ― -b5- Also Thick, or coarse, dry bread: or bread not rendered savoury by anything eaten therewith: or the edge [of a cake] of bread. (K.) [See also جِلْفَةٌ.] -A2- A male palm-tree, (Lth, K,) with the spadix of which the female palm-tree is fecundated: (Lth, TA:) pl. جُلُوفٌ. (TA.) -A3- A certain well-known bird. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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