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Arabic
Root
ن ف ج • (n-f-j)
- related to inflating
Derived terms
- Form I: نَفَجَ (nafaja, “to jump up, to hatch, to blow forth violently, to intumesce; to boast, to bloviate, to windbag”)
- Form I: نَفَجَ (nafaja, “to raise, to increase, to inflate, to elevate”)
- Active participle: نَافِج (nāfij)
- Passive participle: مَنْفُوج (manfūj)
- Form IV: أَنْفَجَ (ʔanfaja, “to cause to jump out”)
- Verbal noun: إِنْفَاج (ʔinfāj)
- Active participle: مُنْفِج (munfij, “arrogant, boastful”)
- Passive participle: مُنْفَج (munfaj)
- Form V: تَنَفَّجَ (tanaffaja, “to be inflated; to boast, to bloviate, to windbag”)
- Form VIII: اِنْتَفَجَ (intafaja, “to intumesce”)
- Form X: اِسْتَنْفَجَ (istanfaja, “to excite the anger of”)
- نُفْجَة (nufja, “gusset, a wedge-like piece of cloth inserted into apparel so it is larger; bag, pouch, sac”)
- نَفِيج (nafīj, “having difficulty in moving due to largeness”)
- نَفَّاج (naffāj, “arrogant”)
- نِفَاجَة (nifāja), نُفَّاجَة (nuffāja), نَفِيجَة (nafīja, “gusset”)
- نَافِجَة (nāfija, “violence, fury; the vehement beginning of anything; a violently blowing wind; a supernumerary rib; daughter (due to the bridewealth the father receives)”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ف ج”, 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 309
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ف ج”, 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, pages 1304–1305
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ف ج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1135
- Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ن ف ج”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 1045
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ف ج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1152