Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جُحَافٌ

Root: جحف

Full Definition

جُحَافٌ That carries away everything; applied to a torrent; as also جَاحِفٌ ; and to death.
2 Death [itself].
3 A flux of the belly, arising from indigestion: or a pain that attacks in consequence of eating flesh-meat without bread. [See also جَحْفَةٌ.]


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