ج ف ف

Arabic

Root

ج ف ف • (j-f-f)

1. related to dryness

Derived terms

• Form I: جَفَّ (jaffa, “to become dry”)
  • Verbal noun: جَفَاف (jafāf), جُفُوف (jufūf)
  • Active participle: جَافّ (jāff)
• Form II: جَفَّفَ (jaffafa, “to dry”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْفِيف (tajfīf)
  • Active participle: مُجَفِّف (mujaffif)
  • Passive participle: مُجَفَّف (mujaffaf)
• Form V: تَجَفَّفَ (tajaffafa, “to become dry”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَفُّف (tajaffuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَفِّف (mutajaffif)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَفَّ (ijtaffa, “to consume all the liquid”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِفَاف (ijtifāf)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَفّ (mujtaff)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَفّ (mujtaff)

• جُفّ (juff, “hollow thing on something”)
• جَفَّة (jaffa, “company of people, crowd”)
• جُفَّة (juffa, “company of people, crowd”)
• جُفَاف (jufāf, “dry residue”)
• جَفَّافَة (jaffāfa, “swab”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ج ف ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 199–200
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج ف ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 285–286
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج ف ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 431–432
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ج ف ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 187