ج و ف

ج و ف

Arabic

Root

ج و ف • (j-w-f)

1. related to hollowness

Derived terms

• Form I: جَافَ‎ (jāfa, “to be hollow; to reach the interior of”)
  • Verbal noun: جَوْف‎ (jawf)
  • Active participle: جَائِف‎ (jāʾif)
  • Passive participle: مَجُوف‎ (majūf)
• Form I: جَوِفَ‎ (jawifa, “to be hollow, to be concave”)
  • Verbal noun: جَوَف‎ (jawaf)
• Form II: جَوَّفَ‎ (jawwafa, “to hollow out”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْوِيف‎ (tajwīf)
  • Active participle: مُجَوِّف‎ (mujawwif)
  • Passive participle: مُجَوَّف‎ (mujawwaf)
• Form IV: أَجَافَ‎ (ʾajāfa, “to shut, to close”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجَافَة‎ (ʾijāfa)
  • Active participle: مُجِيف‎ (mujīf)
  • Passive participle: مُجَاف‎ (mujāf)
• Form V: تَجَوَّفَ‎ (tajawwafa, “to become hollow”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَوُّف‎ (tajawwuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَوِّف‎ (mutajawwif)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَافَ‎ (ijtāfa, “to enter the interior of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِيَاف‎ (ijtiyāf)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَاف‎ (mujtāf)
• Form X: اِسْتَجَافَ‎ (istajāfa, “to become spacious, to become wide, to become ample”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِجَافَة‎ (istijāfa)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَجِيف‎ (mustajīf)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَجَاف‎ (mustajāf)

• جَوْف‎ (jawf, “hollow, cavity, depression; interior, inner; belly, abdomen; north”, noun)
  • جَوْفِيّ‎ (jawfiyy, “inner; northern”, adjective)
  • جَوْفَانِيّ‎ (jawfāniyy, “gourmand, glutton”, adjective)
• أَجْوَف‎ (ʾajwaf, “hollow”, adjective)
• جَوْفَان‎ (jawfān, “the membrum virile of an ass”, noun)
• جِيفَة‎ (jīfa, “corpse”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ج و ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 235
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ج و ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 325–326
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ج و ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 487–488
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ج و ف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 357
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ج و ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 175–176
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ج و ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 218