Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَمُجْحِفًا

Root: جحف

Full Definition

وَمُجْحِفًا The thing passed by approaching, or coming near.
2 سَنَةٌ مُجْحِفَةٌ A year that renders the cattle lean: or a year that destroys people, or impoverishes them, or injures them, (تُجْحِفُ بِهِمْ,) by slaughter, or by marring, or destroying, the cattle.
3 And مُجْحِفَةٌ, alone, A calamity; because it extirminates people.


Lane's Lexicon — The most scholarly Arabic-English dictionary available

The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor. A work of such unique greatness that to this day it remains supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography.

✓ Full text search • ✓ Root-based navigation
✓ Advanced filters • ✓ Mobile access

Go to LanesLexicon

Trusted by 1000+ researchers worldwide
Featured on Fons Vitae • Used by universities globally