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2 جرّفهُ جرف جرفه جرفة , inf. n. تَجْرِيفٌ: see 1, in four places. ― -b2- جرّفهُ الدَّهْرُ (assumed tropical:) Time, or fortune, or misfortune, destroyed, or exterminated, his property, or cattle, and reduced him to poverty. (TA.) A poet (of the Benoo-Teiyi, TA) says, “ فَإِِنْ تَكُنِ الحَوَادِثُ جَرَّفَتْنِى
فَلَمْ أَرَ هَالِكًا كَا@بْنَىْ زِيَادِ
” (assumed tropical:) [And if misfortunes have destroyed my property, or cattle, and reduced me to poverty, I have not seen any one in a state of perdition like the two sons of Ziyád]. (S, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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