ج و ف

ج و ف • (j-w-f)

1. related to hollowness

• Form I: جَافَ (jāfa, “to be hollow; to reach the interior of”)
  • Verbal noun: جَوْف (jawf)
  • Active participle: جَائِف (jāʔif)
  • 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 (ʔajāfa, “to shut, to close”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجَافَة (ʔijāfa)
  • 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 (ʔajwaf, “hollow”, adjective)
• جَوْفَان (jawfān, “the membrum virile of an ass”, noun)
• جِيفَة (jīfa, “corpse”)

• 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, pages 175–176
• Wehr, Hans with 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