نافجة

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Arabic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Root
ن ف ج (n f j)
4 terms

Noun

نَافِجَة (nāfijaf (plural نَوَافِج (nawāfij)) (obsolete)

  1. violence, fury
  2. the vehement beginning of anything
  3. a violently blowing wind
  4. a supernumerary rib
  5. daughter (due to the bridewealth the father receives)
Declension

Etymology 2

From the Middle Persian ancestor of Persian نافه (nâfe).

Noun

نَافِجَة (nāfijaf (plural نَوَافِج (nawāfij))

  1. musk bag, the gland of the musk deer
  2. musk ball, perfume flask particularly of silver or copper to store musk
Declension

References

  • Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 257
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نافجة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 309b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نافجة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1304b
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “نافجة”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 970a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نافجة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1152