Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَفْوَةٌ

Root: جفو

Full Definition

جَفْوَةٌ A single act of coarse, rough, rude, unkind, hard, churlish, uncivil, or surly, treatment, or behaviour.
2 See also جَفَآءٌ, in three places.


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