Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مِجْرَفَةٌ

Root: جرف

Full Definition

مِجْرَفَةٌ A broom, or besom; a thing with which mud is swept away from the surface of the ground: [applied in the present day to a shovel: and a hoe: and a rake:] as also مِجْرَفٌ : vulgarly, جُرَّافَةٌ ; [now applied by many to a drag for dragging rivers &c.;] of which the pl. is جَرَارِيفُ.


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