be covetous, be greedy

, aor. , inf. n. جَشَعٌ, He was, or became, affected with the most vehement desire, eagerness, avidity, cupidity, or hankering, (S, O, K,) and, (O, K,) as explained by an Arab of the desert to As, (IDrd,) with the worst kind thereof, (IDrd, O, K,) for eating &c.: (TA:) or, as ex plained by another Arab of the desert to As, (IDrd,) he took his own share, and coveted the share of another: (IDrd, K:) and ↓ تجشّع sig nifies the like; (S;) or i. q. تَحَرَّصَ, q. v. (K.) ― -b2- جَشَعٌ also signifies The being impatient on account of separation from an associate. (TA.) ― -b3- And The being frightened, terrified, or afraid. (TA.)

see 1.

They straitened each other in pressing to the water, and [so I render تَعَاطَشَا] vied, each with the other, in endeavouring to satisfy their thirst; (K;) on the authority of an Arab of the desert. (TA.)

part. n. of جَشِعَ, Affected with the most vehement desire, &c.: pl. جَشِعُونَ, (S, K,) and جَشَاعَى and جُشَعَآءَ and جِشَاعٌ are also pls. [of the same]. (TA.) ― -b2- الجَشِعُ The lion. (TA.) ― -b3- رَجُلٌ جَشِعٌ بَشِعٌ, A man in whom are combined impatience and fright and a heavy, or a heaving, state of the soul. (TA.)

One who assumes a false disposition, and that which is not in him. (TA.)

[comparative and superlative of جَشِعٌ; More, and most, affected with most vehement desire, &c.]. (TA.)