نفح

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Arabic

Etymology

From the root ن ف ح (n-f-ḥ). Also compare نَفَخَ (nafaḵa) and فَاحَ (fāḥa).

Verb

نَفَحَ (nafaḥa) I (non-past يَنْفَحُ (yanfaḥu), verbal noun نَفْح (nafḥ) or نَفَحَان (nafaḥān) or نَفَاح (nafāḥ))

  1. (intransitive) to diffuse, to forspread (said of odors as of blood)
  2. (ditransitive) to endow with (with double accusative or with accusative and بِ)
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل, أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 61:
      ناولني عامل الخدمة ربطة قات شامي فاخرة، وعروسة سجائر. لاحظت أنّ عين النادل كانت تلاحق عروسة السجائر، أمرته أن ينتظر، أزلت غشاءها النايلوني الرقيق ونفحته علبة، فانصرف مسروراً.
      A service worker brought me a bundle of fine Levantine qāt, and a carton of cigarettes. I recognized that the eye of the waiter was fixed on the carton of cigarettes, I hight him to bide, removed the thin nylon covering and tipped him a packet, and he left in gaiety.

Conjugation

Noun

نَفْح (nafḥm

  1. verbal noun of نَفَحَ (nafaḥa) (form I)

Declension

References

  • نفح” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نفح”, 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 310
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نفح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1294