جيف
1 جَافَتِ الجِيفَةُ,
aor. ـِ (
K;) and ↓ جيّفت, (
S, *
K,)
inf. n. تَجْيِيفٌ; (
S;) and ↓ اجتافت, (
K,) [and ↓ تجيّفت, Golius, as from the
K, but not found by me in any copy thereof,] and ↓ انجافت; (
TA;) The dead body stank, or became stinking. (
S, *
K,
TA.) 2 جيّف He became a stinking dead body. (
Mgh,
KL.)
b2: See also 1.
5 تَجَيَّفَ see 1.
7 إِنْجَيَفَ see 1.
8 إِجْتَيَفَ see 1.
جِيفَةٌ [A carcass, or corpse, i. e.] a dead body [of a beast or a man], that has become stinking; (
S,
Mgh,
K;) or, as some say, in a general sense; [whether stinking or not:] (
TA:) 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: (
Msb:) [and the corpse of a man: (see جَيَّافٌ:)]
pl. [of mult.]
جِيَفٌ (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K) and [of pauc.] أَجْيَافٌ. (
S K.) [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. (
TA.) جَيَّافٌ A rifler, or ransacker, of graves; (
K,
TA;) because he removes the [grave-] clothes from the corpses, and takes them; or, as some say, because of the stinking nature of his
act. (
TA.)