جِيفَةٌ
Root: جيف
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جِيفَةٌ
[A carcass, or corpse, i. e.] a dead body [of a beast or a man], that has become stinking; or, as some say, in a general sense; [whether stinking or not:] or, of beasts and cattle, an animal that has died a natural death, or been killed otherwise than in the manner prescribed by the law, and has become stinking: [and the corpse of a man: (see جَيَّافٌ:)] pl. [of mult.] جِيَفٌ and [of pauc.] أَجْيَافٌ. [Hence,] جِيفَةُ لَيْلٍ قُطْرُبُ نَهَارٍ
One who sleeps all the night, and labours all the day. (TA from a trad. [See also art. قطرب.]) IDrd mentions this word in art. جوف, holding the ى to be originally و.
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