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نجف

“نجف” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to fashion a point or tip
  2. to carve or sharpen an arrow
  3. to make a broad spearhead
  4. to cut down (a tree) at the root
  5. to dig (a well) (and widen its bottom)
  6. to scour (rocks) (of the wind)
  7. to milk (a sheep) dry
  8. to drain (a well)
  9. to bolt or to lock a door
  10. to barricade, to set up a blockade
  11. to shield or block
  12. to push back, to be a barrier or resistance against another thing
  13. to be blown by the wind
  14. to drift, to be pushed
  15. to shake, to be knocked about
  16. to push up into a heap

noun

  1. elevated place not reached by water, hill, dike
  2. embankment, battlement
  3. dune especially those that drift or are pushed around or formed by the wind
  4. quartz, crystal

Etymology

From the root ن ج ف (n j f) originally stemming from the butting together of horns; hence the wide semantic range "to push or thrust", "to gore or stab", "to knock about", "to be pushed about".

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