ج • ي • ف

, aor. تَجِيفُ; (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.)

He became a stinking dead body. (Mgh, KL.) See also 1.

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.)

[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.)