جَفَا
Root: جفو
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 [Hence,] it is said in a trad. of 'Omar, إِنِّى أَجْفُو عَنْ أَشْيَآءَ مِنَ العِلْمِ Verily I recoil, shrink, or am averse, from some matters of knowledge, or science, and ignore them, or neglect them.
3 Also جَفَا, Present.T as above, [and so the Verbal.Noun,] said of a garment, or piece of cloth, It was thick, coarse, or rough: and in like manner said of a reed-pen, it was thick, coarse, or rough, in its nib.
4 [And hence, (see جَفَآءٌ, below, and جَافٍ,) He was, or became, thick, gross, coarse, rough, or rude, of make: and, more commonly, coarse, rough, or rude, of nature or disposition, or in his intercourse and dealings with others; unkind, hard, churlish, uncivil, or surly. ] It is said in a trad., مَنْ بَدَا جَفَا, i. e. [He who abides in the desert] becomes coarse, rough, or rude, of nature or disposition; [or unkind, hard, churlish, &c.;] by reason of mixing little with men.
5 جَفَا عَلَيْهِ كَذَا Such a thing was, or became, heavy, onerous, burdensome, or oppressive, to him.
def.2 جَفَا جَنْبَهُ عَنِ الفِرَاشِ: and جَفَا السَّرْجَ: see 3.
2 جَفَتِ القِدْرُ زَبَدَهَا The cooking-pot cast forth its froth, or foam; as also ; [like جَفَأَت and اجفأت;] originally without ء. And جَفَا السَّيْلُ The torrent drove away [things in its course].
3 جَفَا الرَّجُلَ, Present.T as above, He turned away from the man; avoided him; or shunned him: or he drove away the man; from جفا السَّيْلُ, explained above: sometimes meaning, with hatred. And جَفَاهُ He withdrew, or removed, far, or to a distance, from him: whence the saying of Mohammad Ibn-Sookah, لَمَّا قَلَّ مَالِى جَفَانِى إِخْوَانِى [When my property became little, my brethren withdrew far from me].
4 And جَفَا مَالَهُ He did not keep, or cleave, or hold fast, to his property.
5 And جَفَاهُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun جَفَآءٌ and جَفْوٌ, He treated him, or behaved towards him, coarsely, roughly, rudely, unkindly, hardly, churlishly, uncivilly, or surlily: you should not say جَفَيْتُ. The pass. part. n. is مَجْفُوٌّ and مَجْفِىٌّ : (S, and K in art. جفى:) the latter formed in accordance with جُفِىَ, in which the و is changed into ى.
6 He did to him what displeased, grieved, or vexed, him; did to him what he disliked, or hated; did evil to him. So in the trad., مَنْ حَجَّ وَلَمْ يَزُرْنِى فَقَدْ جَفَا [He who performs the pilgrimage to Mekkeh and does not visit me, i.e. does not visit my tomb afterwards, either on his homeward journey or by journeying to ElMedeeneh for that special purpose, does what displeases me].
7 جَفَتِ المَرْأُةُ وَلَدَهَا The woman neglected to take care of her child, or to pay frequent attention to it.
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