أنفاق

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

أَنْفَاق • (ʔanfāq) pl

1. plural of نَفَق (nafaq)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀμφάκιον (omphákion, “juice from unripe grapes; oil from unripe olives”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔun.faːq/

أُنْفَاق • (ʔunfāq) m

1. (obsolete, attributively) (juice of grapes, oil of olives, etc) extracted unripe from the fruit
   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم  (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 181 line 3:
   • a. 1222, نَجِيب الدِّين السَّمَرْقَنْدِيّ [najīb ad-dīn as-samarqandiyy], edited by Juliane Müller, كِتَاب الْأَغْذِيَة وَٱلْأَشْرِبَة [kitāb al-ʔaḡdiya wa-l-ʔǎšriba] (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 101)‎, Leiden: Brill, published 2017, →ISBN, page 146:

     وأمّا زيت الأنفاق وهو […] دابغ للمعدة مقوّ لها صالح للمحرورين ولا سيّما إن كان مغسولاً.

     In what concerns the olive oil extracted from unripe olives, it tans the stomach and fortifies it, while being salubrious for heated folks, particularly if washed .

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 148
• Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879), Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 182

• IPA^(key): /ʔan.faːɡ/

أَنْفَاق • (ʔanfāg) pl

1. plural of نَفَق (nafag)