جَارِفٌ

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جَارِفٌ : see جُرَافٌ.
2 Also A death commonly, or generally, prevailing, that sweeps away, or destroys, (يَجْتَرِفُ,) the cattle of the people. And Plague, or pestilence. الجَارِفُ means A plague, or pestilence, that happened in the time of Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr; 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. And Evil fortune, or an affliction, that sweeps away, or destroys, a people, or the cattle of a people.

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