منفس

Arabic

Root
ن ف س (n-f-s)

Etymology

Noun of place from the verb نَفَّسَ (naffasa, “to relieve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.fas/

Noun

مَنْفَس • (manfas) f (plural مَنَافِس (manāfis))

1. breather, air hole, outlet, vent, breathing hole

Declension

Declension of noun مَنْفَس (manfas)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنْفَس manfas	الْمَنْفَس al-manfas	مَنْفَس manfas
Nominative	مَنْفَسٌ manfasun	الْمَنْفَسُ al-manfasu	مَنْفَسُ manfasu
Accusative	مَنْفَسًا manfasan	الْمَنْفَسَ al-manfasa	مَنْفَسَ manfasa
Genitive	مَنْفَسٍ manfasin	الْمَنْفَسِ al-manfasi	مَنْفَسِ manfasi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنْفَسَيْن manfasayn	الْمَنْفَسَيْن al-manfasayn	مَنْفَسَيْ manfasay
Nominative	مَنْفَسَانِ manfasāni	الْمَنْفَسَانِ al-manfasāni	مَنْفَسَا manfasā
Accusative	مَنْفَسَيْنِ manfasayni	الْمَنْفَسَيْنِ al-manfasayni	مَنْفَسَيْ manfasay
Genitive	مَنْفَسَيْنِ manfasayni	الْمَنْفَسَيْنِ al-manfasayni	مَنْفَسَيْ manfasay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَافِس manāfis	الْمَنَافِس al-manāfis	مَنَافِس manāfis
Nominative	مَنَافِسُ manāfisu	الْمَنَافِسُ al-manāfisu	مَنَافِسُ manāfisu
Accusative	مَنَافِسَ manāfisa	الْمَنَافِسَ al-manāfisa	مَنَافِسَ manāfisa
Genitive	مَنَافِسَ manāfisa	الْمَنَافِسِ al-manāfisi	مَنَافِسِ manāfisi

Descendants

• Maltese: minfes
• → Azerbaijani: mənfəs
• → Ottoman Turkish: منفس
  • → Turkish: menfes

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْفَس (manfas).

Noun

منفس • (menfes) (plural منافس (menafes))

1. air hole, spiracle, a hole in any surface that allows air or other gases to pass

Descendants

• Turkish: menfes

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “menfes”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3138
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “menfes”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 734
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منفس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1235
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spiraculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1584
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منفس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4975
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منفس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2010