نفح

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ن ف ح‎ (n-f-ḥ). Also compare نَفَخَ‎ (nafaḵa) and فَاحَ‎ (fāḥa).

Verb

نَفَحَ • (nafaḥa) I, non-past يَنْفَحُ‎‎ (yanfaḥu)

  1. (intransitive) to diffuse, to forspread (said of odors as of blood)
  2. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (ditransitive) to endow with (with double accusative or with accusative and بِ‎)

Conjugation

Noun

نَفْح • (nafḥ) m

  1. verbal noun of نَفَحَ (nafaḥa) (form I)

Declension

References

  • “نفح” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), “نفح”, 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 310
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “نفح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1294
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