نفش

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See also: نفس

Arabic

Root
ن ف ش (n f š)
1 term

Verb

نَفَشَ (nafaša) I (non-past يَنْفُشُ (yanfušu), verbal noun نَفْش (nafš))

  1. to gin, to tease
    • 7th century CE, Sunan Abī Dāwud, 24:11:
      نَهَانَا عَنْ كَسْبِ الْأَمَةِ إِلَّا مَا عَمِلَتْ بِيَدِهَا . وَقَالَ هَٰكَذَا بِأَصَابِعِهِ نَحْوَ ٱلْخَبْزِ وَٱلْغَزْلِ وَٱلنَّفْشِ .
      nahānā ʕan kasbi l-ʔamati ʔillā mā ʕamilat biyadihā . waqāla hākaḏā biʔaṣābiʕihī naḥwa l-ḵabzi wal-ḡazli wan-nafši .
      He forbade us the earning of a slave-girl save what she obtained by working with her hand. And so he said with his fingers in respect to baking, spinning and ginning.
  2. to fluff, to ruffle
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 168:
      كان يتكلم بطريقة استغراضية، متباهياً بنفسه وأزيائه وذكائه، فبدا كديك نافش ريشه.
      He spoke in a prolix manner, boastful of himself, his outward impression and his intellect, and appeared like a cock ruffling his feathers.

Conjugation

Verb

نَفَشَ (nafaša) I (non-past يَنْفُشُ (yanfušu), verbal noun نَفْش (nafš) or نُفُوش (nufūš))

  1. (obsolete) to pasture at night without a herdsman
  2. to swell, to expand
  3. (obsolete) to procure, to provide oneself with, to take possession of

Conjugation

Verb

نَفَّشَ (naffaša) II (non-past يُنَفِّشُ (yunaffišu), verbal noun تَنْفِيش (tanfīš))

  1. to card, to comb

Conjugation

Noun

نَفَش (nafašm

  1. wool
  2. (obsolete) camels pasturing at night without herdsman
  3. (obsolete) produce, yield; abundance

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نفش”, 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 314a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نفش”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1311a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نفش”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1137a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نفش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1156b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “نفش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 931b