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أَجْوَفُ

Root: جوف

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أَجْوَفُ Having a جَوْف; [i. e.,] hollow, or empty within; having in it a تَجْوِيف [or hollowing out, meaning a hollow], and so مُجَوَّفٌ : empty, vacant, or void: wide, spacious, or ample; as also مُسْتَجَافٌ , and جُوفِىٌّ , with damm, thus correctly written, being a rel. n. altered from the original form, like سُهْلِىٌّ and دُهْرِىٌّ, but meaning wide in the جَوْف [or belly, &c.], written by J [in the S] جَوْفِىٌّ , with fet-h: great in the جَوْف; as also مَجُوفٌ ; each applied to a man: [fem. جَوْفَآءُ:] pl. جُوفٌ. You say لُؤْلُؤٌ أَجْوَفُ, and مُجَوَّفٌ , [Hollow, and hollowed, pearls; or] both signify the same. And قَنَاةٌ جَوْفَآءُ An empty [or a hollow] cane, or reed: and in like manner, شَجَرَةٌ [a tree]; having a جَوْف. And دَلْوٌ جَوْفَآءُ A wide, or an ample, bucket: and دِلَآءٌ جَوفٌ wide, or ample, buckets: and قِدْرٌ جَوْفَآءُ a wide, capacious, cooking-pot. And الأَجْوَفُ The lion that is great in the جَوْف [or belly, &c.]. And الأَجْوَفَانِ The belly and the فَرْج [or vulva, or pudendum muliebre]; because of their width. See also جَوْفٌ. Hence the trad., إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمُ الأَجْوَفَانِ [Verily what I most fear for you are the belly and the vulva].
2 A cowardly man; as also مِجْوَفٌ , and مُجَوَّفٌ ; the last explained in the K as meaning having no heart: pl. [of the first] جُوفٌ.
3 A horse white in the جَوْف [or belly] as far as the part where the sides terminate, whatever be the colour of the rest of him; as also مِجْوَفٌ . [See also مُجَوَّفٌ.]
4 In the conventional language of the science of inflection, [A hollow word; i. e.] a word having an infirm letter for its medial radical; as قَالَ and بَاعَ.


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