جلف

Borrowed from Aramaic גּוּלְפָא (gulp̄ā, “empty jug, stone pitcher”), apparently a metathesis of Akkadian 𒉺𒄖𒇻 (pagalu, pagulu, “a jar used for libation”). The term lout stemming from a drunkard, one who empties a wine jar, and their associated rowdy behavior; alternatively from the related Akkadian 𒉺𒂵𒈝 (pagalum, “to be powerful, to be massive, to be bulky or cumbersome, to be brawny”).

جِلْف • (jilf) m (plural أَجْلَاف (ʔajlāf) or جُلُوف (julūf))

1. an empty wine jar, a leer cask
2. lout, rude person or object, yokel, churlish bloke, something or someone rough, coarse, or rude in disposition (for example an amount of dry bread)

• أَجْلَف (ʔajlaf, “coarse”, adjective)
• جَلِفَ (jalifa, “to be coarse, to be rude in disposition”, verb)
• جَلَافَة (jalāfa, “crudeness, rudeness”, noun)

• Maltese: ġolf

جَلِفَ • (jalifa) I (non-past يَجْلَفُ (yajlafu), verbal noun جَلَف (jalaf) or جَلَافَة (jalāfa))

1. to be coarse, to be rude in disposition

جَلَفَ • (jalafa) I (non-past يَجْلُفُ (yajlufu), verbal noun جَلْف (jalf))

1. to strip, to pare, to peel, to husk, to pull, to pluck

جَلْف • (jalf) m

1. verbal noun of جَلَفَ (jalafa) (form I)

• “gwlpˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 169
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جلف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 193

From Arabic جِلْف (jilf).

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒilf/,

جلف • (jilf)

1. harsh, to be rude in disposition

   (هو) جلف في معاملة أصدقائه

   He is harsh in dealing with his friends.