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جِيفَةٌ carcass in Arabic

جِيفَةٌ is how you say “carcass” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَأَنت مَشْغُول بالجيف

Yet you are occupied with carcasses.

بِالْجِيَفِ with carcasses

'Bi-' (with) fused with a broken plural 'carrion / carcasses', genitive — 'with rotting carcasses'. The 'bi-' marks what occupies you: worldly filth.

From Overcoming Desire

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حتى يصير شيخًا مهينا، ثم يصير إلى الموت، فيصير جيفة منتنة

until he becomes a feeble old man, then he reaches death, becoming a decayed corpse.

جِيفَةً a corpse

The complement of 'becomes', with a bare indefinite ending: 'a carcass'. It names the last state in the sequence and takes the form such becoming-verbs require.

From A Path to Mercy

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