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جرّفهُ جرف جرفه جرفة , inf. n. تَجْرِيفٌ : see 1, in four places. ― -b2- جرّفهُ الدَّهْرُ (assumed tropical:) Time, or fortune, or misfortune, destroyed, or exterminated, his property, or cattle, and reduced him to poverty. (TA.) A poet (of the Benoo-Teiyi, TA) says, فَاـِنْ تَكُنِ الحَوَادِثُ جَرَّفَتْنِى فَلَمْ أَرَ هَالِكًا كَا@بْنَىْ زِيَادِ (assumed tropical:) [And if misfortunes have destroyed my property, or cattle, and reduced me to poverty, I have not seen any one in a state of perdition like the two sons of Ziyád]. (S, TA.)

اجرف أجرف اجرف جرف It (a place) was invaded by a torrent such as is termed جُرَاف . (K.)

تَجَرَّفَ see 1, in two places; and see جُرُفٌ .

اـِجْتَرَفَ see 1, in three places.

جُرْفٌ جرف : see جُرُفٌ . ― -b2- Also A smooth side of a mountain. (A boo-Kheyreh, K.)

جِرْفٌ جرف : see the next paragraph.

جُرُفٌ جرف and ↓ جُرْفٌ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) the latter a contraction of the former, (Msb,) [An abrupt, water-worn, bank or ridge;] a bank ( جَانِبٌ Ksh and Jel in ix. 110) of a valley, the lower part of which is excavated by the water, and hollowed out by the torrents, so that it remains uncompact, unsound, or weak; (Ksh ib.;) a bank, or an acclivity, of a water-course of a valley and the like, when the water has carried away from its lower part, and undermined it, so that it has become like what is termed a دَحْل , with its upper part overhanging; (L;) a portion of land (or sand, S in art. تهر ) which the torrents have partially swept away, or worn away, (↓ تَجَرَّفَتْهُ , S, K, or ↓ جَرَفَتْهُ , Msb,) and eaten; (S, Msb, K;) a portion of the lower part of the side of a valley, and of a river, eaten by the torrent; (M, TA;) the side of the bank of a river, that has been eaten by the water, so that some part of it every little while falls: (Har p. 47:) and the latter, [or each,] a place which the torrent does not take away; as also ↓ جِرْفٌ ; (K;) [i. e. a bank, or ridge, that remains rising abruptly by the bed of a torrent or stream:] pl. [of pauc.] (of جُرُفٌ , TA) أَجْرَافٌ , (K,) like أَطْنَابٌ pl. of طُنُبٌ , (TA,) and [of mult.] (of جُرْفٌ , though it is implied in the K that it is of جُرُفٌ , TA) جِرَفَةٌ , like جِحَرَةٌ (S, K) pl. of جُحْرٌ , (S,) and جُرُوفٌ . (ISd, TA.)

جُرَافٌ جراف A torrent that carries away everything; (S, Msb;) i. q. جُحَافٌ applied to a torrent; as also ↓ جَوْرَفٌ ; (K;) and ↓ جَارُوفٌ a torrent that sweeps away that by which it passes, by reason of its copiousness, carrying away everything, and so ↓ جَارِفٌ applied to rain. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A very voracious man: (K, TA:) a man who devours all the food: (S:) one who eats vehemently, leaving nothing remaining. (M, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A man who marries much, or often, and is brisk, lively, sprightly, or active; as also ↓ جَارُوفٌ . (K, TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A sword that sweeps away everything. (TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A sort of measure of capacity; as also ↓ جِرَافٌ : (S, K:) a certain large measure of capacity. (ISk, TA.)

جِرَافٌ جراف : see what next precedes.

نَيْطَلٌ جَرُوفٌ نيطل جروف [A capacious bucket: see 3 in art. نهز ]. (S in art. نهز .)

جُرَّافَةٌ جرافه جرافة : see مِجْرَفَةٌ .

جَارِفٌ جارف : see جُرَافٌ . ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A death commonly, or generally, prevailing, (S, K, TA,) that sweeps away, or destroys, ( يَجْتَرِفُ ,) the cattle of the people. (S, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Plague, or pestilence. (K.) الجَارِفُ means (assumed tropical:) A plague, or pestilence, that happened in the time of Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr; (S;) or, as Lth says, الطَّاعُونُ الجَارِفُ means the plague, or pestilence, that befel the people of El- 'Irák [in the year of the Flight 69], spreading wide, and sweeping away the people like the sweeping away of the torrent. (TA.) And (tropical:) Evil fortune, or an affliction, that sweeps away, or destroys, (Lth, K, TA,) a people, (K,) or the cattle of a people. (Lth, TA.)

جَوْرَفٌ جورف : see جُرَافٌ . ― -b2- Hence, as being likened to the torrent thus termed, (TA,) (tropical:) A quick, or swift, بِرْذَون [or hack, &c.]. (K.) And (tropical:) An ass; [app. meaning a wild ass, because of his swiftness.] (Sgh, K.) And, accord. to some, A male ostrich: (as in the K:) but this is a mistranscription for جَوْرَقٌ , with ق . (Abu-l-' Abbás, T, Sgh, L, TA.)

جَارُوفٌ جاروف : see جُرَافٌ , in two places. ― -b2- Also (tropical:) Greedy; having an inordinate desire, or appetite, for food. (K, TA.) ― -b3- And An (tropical:) unfortunate man. (K, * TA.)

مِجْرَفٌ مجرف : see مِجْرَفَةٌ . ― -b2- [Hence,] بَنَانٌ مِجْرَفٌ [Fingers, or fingers' ends,] that take much food. (IAar, TA.)

مِجْرَفَةٌ مجرف مجرفه مجرفة A broom, or besom; (K;) a thing with which mud is swept away from the surface of the ground: (S, * TA:) [applied in the present day to a shovel: and a hoe: and a rake:] as also ↓ مِجْرَفٌ : vulgarly, ↓ جُرَّافَةٌ ; [now applied by many to a drag for dragging rivers &c.;] of which the pl. is جَرَارِيفُ . (TA.)

مُجَرَّفٌ مجرف (tropical:) A man who has had his property, or or cattle, destroyed, or exterminated, and who has been reduced to poverty, by time, or fortune, or misfortune. (TA.)

مُجَرِّفٌ مجرف (tropical:) Lean, or emaciated. (M, TA.) [See what next follows.]

مُتَجَرِّفٌ متجرف (tropical:) A ram whose general fatness has gone; (Ibn-'Abbád, K;) and so a camel. (TA.) ― -b2- Lean, or emaciated; as also مُتَجَلِّفٌ . (TA in art. جلف .) You say, جَا=ءَ مُتَجَرِّفًا (tropical:) He (a man, Ibn-'Abbád, TA) came in a lean and lax state ( هَزِيلًا مُضْطَرِبًا ). (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)