جُرُفٌ

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جُرُفٌ and جُرْفٌ , the latter a contraction of the former, [An abrupt, water-worn, bank or ridge;] a bank (جَانِبٌ Ksh and Jel in ix. 110) of a valley, the lower part of which is excavated by the water, and hollowed out by the torrents, so that it remains uncompact, unsound, or weak; a bank, or an acclivity, of a water-course of a valley and the like, when the water has carried away from its lower part, and undermined it, so that it has become like what is termed a دَحْل, with its upper part overhanging; a portion of land (or sand, S in art. تهر) which the torrents have partially swept away, or worn away, ( , S, K, or , Msb,) and eaten; a portion of the lower part of the side of a valley, and of a river, eaten by the torrent; the side of the bank of a river, that has been eaten by the water, so that some part of it every little while falls: and the latter, [or each,] a place which the torrent does not take away; as also جِرْفٌ ; [i. e. a bank, or ridge, that remains rising abruptly by the bed of a torrent or stream:] pl. [of pauc.] (of جُرُفٌ, TA) أَجْرَافٌ, like أَطْنَابٌ pl. of طُنُبٌ, and [of mult.] (of جُرْفٌ, though it is implied in the K that it is of جُرُفٌ, TA) جِرَفَةٌ, like جِحَرَةٌ pl. of جُحْرٌ, and جُرُوفٌ.

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