أَجْوَفُ

Having a جَوْف; (TA;) [i. e.,] hollow, or empty within; (KL, PS;) having in it a تَجْوِيف [or hollowing out, meaning a hollow], (S,) and so ↓ مُجَوَّفٌ: (S, K: [but the latter is more properly rendered hollowed, or hollowed out:]) empty, vacant, or void: (Msb:) wide, spacious, or ample; (S, K;) as also ↓ مُسْتَجَافٌ, (S, TA,) and ↓ جُوفِىٌّ, with damm, (K,) thus correctly written, being a rel. n. altered from the original form, like سُهْلِىٌّ and دُهْرِىٌّ, (Sgh, TA,) but meaning wide in the جَوْف [or belly, &c.], written by J [in the S] ↓ جَوْفِىٌّ, with fet-h: (TA:) great in the جَوْف; (TA;) as also ↓ مَجُوفٌ; (AO, S, K;) each applied to a man: (TA:) [feminine جَوْفَاءُ:] plural جُوفٌ. (TA.) You say لُوءْلُوءٌ أَجْوَفُ, and ↓ مُجَوَّفٌ, [Hollow, and hollowed, pearls; or] both signify the same. (TA.) And قَنَاةٌ جَوْفَاءُ An empty [or a hollow] cane, or reed: (K:) and in like manner, شَجَرَةٌ [a tree]; (S, K;) having a جَوْف. (S.) And دَلْوٌ جَوْفَاءُ A wide, or an ample, bucket: (K:) and دِلَاءٌ جَوفٌ wide, or ample, buckets: (S:) and قِدْرٌ جَوْفَاءُ a wide, capacious, cooking-pot. (Ham p. 719.) And الأَجْوَفُ The lion that is great in the جَوْف [or belly, &c.]. (K.) And الأَجْوَفَانِ The belly and the فَرْج [or vulva, or pudendum muliebre]; (S, K;) because of their width. (TA.) See also جَوْفٌ. Hence the tradition, إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمُ الأَجْوَفَانِ [Verily what I most fear for you are the belly and the vulva]. (TA.)

(tropical:) A cowardly man; as also ↓ مِجْوَفٌ, and ↓ مُجَوَّفٌ; the last explained in the K as meaning having no heart: plural [of the first] جُوفٌ. (TA.)

A horse white in the جَوْف [or belly] as far as the part where the sides terminate, whatever be the colour of the rest of him; (AO, TA;) as also ↓ مِجْوَفٌ. (TA.) [See also مُجَوَّفٌ.]

In the conventional language of the science of inflection, (assumed tropical:) [A hollow word; i. e.] a word having an infirm letter for its medial radical; (K, TA;) as قَالَ and بَاعَ. (TA.)