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جَارِفٌ جارف : see جُرَافٌ. ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A death commonly, or generally, prevailing, (S, K, TA,) that sweeps away, or destroys, (يَجْتَرِفُ,) the cattle of the people. (S, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Plague, or pestilence. (K.) الجَارِفُ means (assumed tropical:) A plague, or pestilence, that happened in the time of Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr; (S;) or, as Lth says, الطَّاعُونُ الجَارِفُ means the plague, or pestilence, that befel the people of El- 'Irák [in the year of the Flight 69], spreading wide, and sweeping away the people like the sweeping away of the torrent. (TA.) And (tropical:) Evil fortune, or an affliction, that sweeps away, or destroys, (Lth, K, TA,) a people, (K,) or the cattle of a people. (Lth, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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