ن ف ش

Arabic

Root

ن ف ش • (n-f-š)

1. related to being (made) less compact (i.e. wool, cotton); ruffling, bristling (cat)

Conjugation

• Form I: نَفَشَ (nafaša, “to gin, to tease; to fluff, to ruffle”)
  • Verbal noun: نَفْش (nafš)
  • Active participle: نَافِش (nāfiš)
  • Passive participle: مَنْفُوش (manfūš)
• Form I: نَفَشَ (nafaša, “to pasture at night without a herdsman; to swell, to expand”)
  • Verbal noun: نَفْش (nafš), نُفُوش (nufūš)
  • Active participle: نَافِش (nāfiš)
• Form II: نَفَّشَ (naffaša, “to card, to comb”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْفِيش (tanfīš)
  • Active participle: مُنَفِّش (munaffiš)
  • Passive participle: مُنَفَّش (munaffaš)
• Form IV: أَنْفَشَ (ʔanfaša, “to send to pasture at night”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْفَاش (ʔinfāš)
  • Active participle: مُنْفِش (munfiš)
  • Passive participle: مُنْفَش (munfaš)
• Form V: تَنَفَّشَ (tanaffaša, “to get ruffled or swollen”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَفُّش (tanaffuš)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَفِّش (mutanaffiš)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَفَشَ (intafaša, “to get ruffled or swollen”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِفَاش (intifāš)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَفِش (muntafiš)

• نَفَش (nafaš, “camels pasturing at night without herdsman; wool”)
• نَفِيش (nafīš, “dispersed items”)
• نَفَّاش (naffāš, “carder; punch needle; bitter orange”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ف ش”, 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) “ن ف ش”, 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 C^ie, page 1311a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ف ش”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 1137a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ف ش”, 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) “ن ف ش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 931b