نفش

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Arabic

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Root
ن ف ش (n f š)
1 term

Verb

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نَفَشَ (nafaša) I, non-past يَنْفُشُ‎ (yanfušu)

  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.

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نَفَشَ (nafaša) I, non-past يَنْفُشُ‎ (yanfušu)

  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 [with عَلَى (ʕalā)]

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نَفَّشَ (naffaša) II, non-past يُنَفِّشُ‎ (yunaffišu)

  1. to card, to comb

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Noun

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نَفَش (nafašm

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

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نفش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (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[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1311a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نفش”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], 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