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جَفَلَ

Root: جفل

Form: 1

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جَفَلَI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun جَفْلٌ and جُفُولٌ, He took fright, or shied, and fled, or ran away at random; or became refractory, and went away at random; or ran away, or broke loose, and went hither and thither by reason of his sprightliness: and he took fright, and flew away; or became scared away: or the former, he hastened, or sped, in his pace, and went away in the land, or country; as also ; both, said of an ostrich, mean he spread his wings, running; or spread his wings, and ran quickly, or went away at random and swiftly: or جَفَلَتِ النَّعَامَةُ means the ostrich fled: and عَنْهُ, said of anything, he fled from it: and جَفَلُوا, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun جَفْلٌ; and and and تجفّلوا ; they fled quickly; or the second and third signify they became displaced, and quickly defeated, and went away; or these two and the fourth, or all the four, they hastened in defeat and flight: and جَفَلَتِ الرِّيحُ, and , the wind was swift in blowing.
2 جَفَلَ, Verbal.Noun جُفُولٌ, It became shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy, or altered in smell, in consequence of its being seldom dressed; or dusty and matted, by reason of its being seldom anointed; and became raised and spread.

def.2 جَفَلَ is also trans., signifying He made a bird to take fright, and fly away; or he scared it away: its quasi-pass. is [explained above]; the reverse of the rule commonly obtaining: or the former verb, as in the O; not the latter, as in the K; he made a male ostrich to hasten, or speed, in his pace, and to go away in the land, or country; or made him to spread his wings, and run quickly, or go away at random and swiftly: and جفّل he, or it, made an animal, or animals, to take fright, and flee, or run away at random; or scared away it, or them: [and, app., he frightened; تَجْفِيلٌ being also said in the TA to be syn. with تَفْرِيعٌ, which, I think, is evidently a mistranscription for تَفْزِيعٌ.] You say, جفّل القَنَّاصُ الوَحْشَ [The sportsman scared away the wild animals]. And أَتَوْهُمْ عَنْ مَرَاكِزِهِمْ [They came to them, and scared them, or frightened them, or made them to flee, away from their stations]. And جَفَلَتِ الرِّيحُ الظَّلِيمَ The wind put in motion the male ostrich, and drove him away, or along: and [in like manner] السَّفِينَةَ [ the ship]. And جَفَلَتِ الرِّيحُ السَّحَابَ The wind smote the clouds, and put them into a state of commotion, and made them to speed along. And الرِّيحُ تَجْفِلُ الجَهَامَ The wind carries away the rainless clouds. Whence, app., جَفَلَ البَحْرُ سَمَكًا The sea cast fish upon the shore; a verb like ضَرَبَ; occurring in a trad., in which it is erroneously said to be أَجْفَلَ.
2 Also, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun جَفْلٌ, He prostrated a man; threw him down upon the ground. You say, طَعَنَهُ فَجَفَلَهُ, meaning He thrust him, or pierced him, [with a spear or the like,] and displaced and prostrated him.
3 He threw goods one upon another.
4 He, or it, overturned, or turned upside-down.
5 Also, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun جَفْلٌ, He peeled, pared, stripped, or scraped off, a thing; as, for instance, flesh from the bone, and fat from the skin; and so جفّل , Verbal.Noun تَجْفِيلٌ: he removed flesh from the bone: app. formed by transposition from جَلَفَ.
6 Also, Present.T ـُ or ـِ He swept away mud from the ground; and so جفّل . [It seems that Golius found, in a copy of the K, التِّبْنَ erroneously put for الطِّينَ; and حَرَقَهُ for جَرَفَهُ; for he has explained the former verb as meaning “ combussit stramen. ”]


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