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جَائِفٌ

Root: جوف

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جَائِفٌ Reaching the جَوْف. [Hence,] طَعْنَةٌ جَائِفَةٌ, or جِرَاحَةٌ جَائِفَةٌ, A spear-wound, or the like, that reaches the , by which is here meant [the interior of the body or head, or], accord. to IAth, any vital part, as the belly and the brain: and sometimes, that penetrates into the جوف: and that passes through also: and said to be such as is in the pit between the collarbones, and in the pubes; but not in the neck, nor in the throat, nor in the thigh, nor in the leg: not if it reaches the interior of the bone of the thigh: opposed to جَالِفَةٌ. (S in art. جلف.)
2 Hence, جَائِفَةٌ is applied to A great fault or imperfection or vice.
3 تَلْعَةٌ جَائِفَةٌ A deep [water-course, &c.: see تلعه]: pl. جَوَائِفُ. (K, TA. [In the CK, قَصِيرَةٌ is erroneously put for قَعِيرَةٌ.])
4 جَوَائِفُ النَّفْسِ The deep recesses of the جَوْفَ [or chest] in the places where the soul has its seat; expl. by مَا تَقَعَّرَ مِنَ الجَوْفِ فِى مَقَارِّ الرُّوحِ. So in the phrase, used by El-Farezdak, وَرَدَّ النَّفْسَ بَيْنَ الجَوَائِفِ [And he drove back the soul into the midst of the deep recesses of the chest]: but some read بين الشَّرَاسِفِ.
5 الجَائِفُ [The cephalic vein;] a vein that runs along the upper arm to the [cartilage called] نَغْض of the shoulder-blade; it is the فَلِيق.


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