ج ل ف

Arabic

Root

ج ل ف • (j-l-f)

1. related to stripping, paring, peeling, husking, pulling, plucking

Derived terms

• Form I: جَلَفَ (jalafa, “to strip, to pare, to peel, to husk, to pull, to pluck”)
  • Verbal noun: جَلْف (jalf)
  • Active participle: جَالِف (jālif)
  • Passive participle: مَجْلُوف (majlūf)
• Form V: تَجَلَّفَ (tajallafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَلُّف (tajalluf)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَلِّف (mutajallif)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَلَفَ (ijtalafa)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِلَاف (ijtilāf)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَلِف (mujtalif)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَلَف (mujtalaf)

• جُلْفَة (julfa, “part of the skin that is pared”)
• جَلْفَة (jalfa, “the spot of the feather where it is pared”)
• جِلْفَة (jilfa, “mode of paring the feather”)
• جَلِيف (jalīf, “decorticated, peeled”)
• جَالِفَة (jālifa, “a wound causing the flesh to be decorticated”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ج ل ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 209
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج ل 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 296–297
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ج ل ف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 317
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج ل ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 444-445