جاف

Derived from the active participle of جَفَّ (jaffa, “to become dry, to dry out”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaːff/

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جَافّ • (jāff) (feminine جَافَّة (jāffa), masculine plural جَافُّونَ (jāffūna), feminine plural جَافَّات (jāffāt), elative أَجَفّ (ʔajaff))

1. dry, withered

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaː.fa/

جَافَ • (jāfa) I (non-past يَجُوفُ (yajūfu), verbal noun جَوْف (jawf))

1. to be hollow
2. to reach the interior of

Derived from the active participle of جَفَا (jafā, “to become coarse”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaː.fin/

جاف • (jāf)

1. coarse, rough, harsh, unkind, churlish, surly (in dealing with others)
2. aloof, unfriendly

• Maltese: ġiefi

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جاف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic جَافّ (jāff).

• IPA^(key): /ʒaːff/,

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جافّ • (jāff) (feminine جافّة (jāffe))

1. dry

   Synonym: ناشف (nāšef)

   Antonym: مبلول (mablūl)

• يابس (yābes, “dried out”)