Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تَجْوِيفٌ

Root: جوف

Form: 2

Full Definition

تَجْوِيفٌII The making [a thing] hollow, or empty in the middle. You say, جوّفهُ, Verbal.Noun تَجْوِيفٌ, [He made it hollow; hollowed it out;] he made it to have a جَوْف. And of a thing that is مُجَوَّف, i. e. أجْوَف, you say, فِيهِ تَجْوِيفٌ [In it is a hollowing out; meaning a hollow, in which sense تجويف has a pl., namely, تَجَاوِيفُ].
2 See also 1.


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