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إِجْفِيلٌ

Root: جفل

Full Definition

إِجْفِيلٌ Cowardly, or a coward, that is frightened at everything. A heostrich that takes fright, and flees from everything that he sees; as also جَفْلٌ .
2 A bow of which the arrow goes far.
3 See also جَفُولٌ.
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