جوف

From the root ج و ف (j w f). The sense “inner” suggests a relation with Egyptian jwf (“flesh”) since the flesh is in the “inner” part of the body. Compare Hebrew גוף (guf, “body”).

جَوْف • (jawf) m (plural أَجْوَاف (ʔajwāf))

1. hollow, cavity, depression
2. interior, inner
   • 1025, ابن سينا [Avicenna], القانون في الطب [Canon Medicinae]:

     فاغرة (var. فاكرة).
     الماهية: حب يشبه الحمص له حب كالمحلب وفي جوفه حب أسود كالشهدانج يحمل من السفالة.
     الطبع: حارة يابسة في الثالثة.
     الخواص: فيها تحليل وقبض.
     أعضاء الغذاء: يدخل في الأدوية المصلحة للمعدة والكبد الباردتين وينفع من سوء الاستمراء البارد.
     أعضاء النفض: ينفع من الإسهال البارد ويعقل البطن.

     Sichuan pepper:
     Its essence: The fruit resembles chickpeas, it has fruits like mahaleb cherry, and in its inner there is a black fruit like hempseed, born from below.
     Its nature: Hot and dry in the third degree.
     Its peculiarities: In it there is discharging and constipation.
     Alimentary organs: It is put into drugs by reason of availing the stomach and the liver when they are cold and it is useful against calamities of cold appetite.
     Excretory organs: It helps against cold diarrhoea and constricts the belly.

3. belly, abdomen
   • a. 625, الأعشى [al-ʾaʿšā], edited by Geyer, Rudolf, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎^[1], volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, →DOI, page 100:
4. (Northwest Africa, al-Andalus) north

   Synonym: شَمَال (šamāl)

5. verbal noun of جَافَ (jāfa, “to be hollow; to reach the interior of”) (form I)

• جَوْفِيّ (jawfiyy, “inner; northern”)
• جَوْفَانِيّ (jawfāniyy, “gourmand, glutton”)

جَوَّفَ • (jawwafa) II (non-past يُجَوِّفُ (yujawwifu), verbal noun تَجْوِيف (tajwīf))

1. to hollow out

جَوِفَ • (jawifa) I (non-past يَجْوَفُ (yajwafu), verbal noun جَوَف (jawaf))

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) to be hollow, to be concave

جَوَف • (jawaf) m

1. verbal noun of جَوِفَ (jawifa) (form I)
   1. hollowness
   2. amplitude

جُوف • (jūf) m pl

1. masculine plural of أَجْوَف (ʔajwaf)