Quranic root
جفو
j · f · w
The root centers on one thing standing apart from, recoiling from, or failing to adhere to another.
The basic notion of non-adherence develops into physical withdrawal and separation, avoidance or rejection, social coarseness, driving away or casting off, and the image of refuse discharged by flowing water.
- Maqāyīs · row 1187
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
تَجَافَى
tajāfā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To draw away, rise apart, or withdraw from something.
In the supplied Quran occurrence, the construction تَجَافَى عَنْ describes the sides or bodies of people withdrawing from their beds; the preposition عَنْ marks the place or thing from which one withdraws.
- Lane · entry 47029
Selected Quran examples
Quran 32:16word 1
“Forsake”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 32:16تَتَجَافَىٰForsake
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 28 Classical meanings
جَفَا
To fail to rest upon or adhere to its place; to heave, rise, or stand apart.
Used of a side upon a bed, a saddle upon an animal, and similar things that do not remain settled in their proper position.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To recoil, shrink, or be averse from something, and consequently avoid or neglect it.
This usage includes recoiling from matters of knowledge or science.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To be thick, coarse, rough, or harsh in texture or make.
Applied to a garment or piece of cloth and to the nib of a reed pen.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To become coarse, rough, or rude in disposition, or to treat others coarsely and unkindly.
The usage covers rudeness or hardness of character and rough, churlish, uncivil, or surly dealings.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To be or become heavy, burdensome, oppressive, or onerous to someone.
Constructed with the burden or matter that weighs upon the person.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To cast forth or drive away, as froth from a cooking-pot or things carried by a torrent.
This is a discharge or expulsion usage, distinct from merely withdrawing from a place.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To turn away from, avoid, shun, or drive away a person.
The usage may convey hatred or aversion when directed toward a person.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To fail to keep, hold fast, or attend to something; to neglect it.
The construction is used both of failing to hold fast to property and of neglecting to care for or attend to another.
- Lane · entry 47025
جَفَا
To do what displeases, grieves, or vexes someone; to do him harm or evil.
This describes conduct judged injurious or hateful to the person affected.
- Lane · entry 47025
تَجْفِيَةٌ
The causing, ordering, or directing of coarse, rough, or rude treatment.
A verbal noun associated with making someone act or behave harshly toward another.
- Lane · entry 47026
جَافَى
To cause something to be apart from, raised from, or not resting upon another thing.
Used of raising a body part from a resting surface, setting the upper arms apart from the sides, or raising a saddle from an animal's back.
- Lane · entry 47027
أَجْفَى
To make or cause someone or something to become distant, remote, far off, or aloof.
A transitive causative use of making an object or person distant.
- Lane · entry 47028
أَجْفَى
To fatigue livestock by driving them vehemently without allowing them to feed adequately.
The construction refers to exhausting cattle through harsh driving and withholding or failing to provide feed.
- Lane · entry 47028
أَجْفَى
Of land, to become stripped of its good and reduced to the condition of refuse cast forth.
A figurative description of land whose productive substance has departed.
- Lane · entry 47028
تَجَافَى
To relinquish or give another person his right or due.
An extended usage in which withdrawing from a claim signifies yielding it to another.
- Lane · entry 47029
تَجَافَى
To incline, decline, or turn from side to side, including turning from right toward wrong.
This describes repeated or directional deviation rather than simple physical removal from a resting place.
- Lane · entry 47029
اِجْتَفَى
To remove a person or thing from its place.
A transitive removal from the original position.
- Lane · entry 47030
اِسْتَجْفَى
To regard or judge a bed or similar object to be thick, coarse, or rough.
The object assessed as coarse is typically a bed or comparable furnishing.
- Lane · entry 47031
اِسْتَجْفَى
To demand or require of someone that he do what is displeasing, grievous, vexatious, or evil.
A causative-demand construction centered on requiring objectionable conduct.
- Lane · entry 47031
اِسْتَجْفَى
To become coarse, rough, rude, unkind, hard, churlish, uncivil, or surly.
Describes the acquisition or manifestation of a harsh disposition.
- Lane · entry 47031
جَفْوَةٌ
A single act or instance of coarse, rough, rude, unkind, or surly treatment.
The noun denotes an individual occurrence of harsh or discourteous behavior.
- Lane · entry 47033
جَفَاءٌ
Coarseness, roughness, or rudeness, whether in make or in one's dealings with others; unkindness or hardness.
It is opposed to kindness or good treatment and can describe a prevailing quality in social intercourse.
- Lane · entry 47035
جَفَاءٌ
The roughness or hardship inflicted by time or fortune.
A figurative usage in which adversity is portrayed as striking or afflicting a person.
- Lane · entry 47035
جُفَاءٌ
The rubbish, froth, or scum cast forth by a valley torrent or by a cooking-pot.
This noun denotes material discharged and left aside by flowing water or boiling contents.
- Lane · entry 47036
جُفَاءٌ
The first or foremost of a group of people.
A figurative application likening the foremost people to what is driven forward by a torrent.
- Lane · entry 47036
جَافٍ
Thick, coarse, or rough.
Applied to a garment, bed, or similar object.
- Lane · entry 47037
جَافٍ
A person coarse or rough in constitution, disposition, or dealings; rude, unkind, hard, or surly.
The active participle can describe physical make as well as harsh conduct toward companions.
- Lane · entry 47037
جَافٍ
Obdurate or unresponsive toward admonition.
Used with عَنْ in the construction جَافٍ عَنِ الْمَوْعِظَةِ.
- Lane · entry 47037
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC record labels the Quranic occurrence as Form I, while the normalized citation form تَجَافَى corresponds to the directly supplied تجافى lexical entry; the QAC morphology label is retained as authoritative for this artifact.