جلفته doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• جَلَّفَتْهُ Form 2

  2 جَلَّفَتْهُ السِّنُونَ جلفته السنون The years of drought, or barrenness, or dearth, destroyed his cattle. (S.) And جَلَّفَتْ كَحْلُ, (S,) or كَحْلٌ, (K,) The year of drought, or barrenness, or dearth, exterminated the …

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