جَلِيفٌ
Root: جلف
Full Definition
is pl. of the former in this sense: but accord. to ISk, [the meaning of the verse is, As though emaciated locusts without heads and without legs occupied the two sides, or the whole, of the part of her breast where the necklace lay; for he says that] the poet likens the ornaments upon her لَبَّة to locusts without heads and without legs. رِجْلٌ جَلِيفَةٌ [An excoriated leg].هَزْلَى جَرَادِ أَجْوَافُهُ جُلْفُ كَأَنَّ لَبَّاتِهَا تَبَدَّدَهَا
2 جَلِيفَةٌ [or سَنَةٌ جَلِيفَةٌ] A year that destroys the cattle; as also : any bane, or calamity, that destroys the cattle: pl. جَلَائِفُ and جُلُفٌ and جُلْفٌ. You say, أَصَابَتْهُمْ جَلِيفَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ A great destruction of their cattle befell them. And سِنُونَ جَلَائِفُ and جُلُفٌ and جُلْفٌ Years that destroy the cattle. And جَلَائِفُ also signifies Torrents.
def.2 See also جِلْفٌ.
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