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. (ditransitive) to endow with (with double accusative or with accusative and بِ)
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 61:
      ناولني عامل الخدمة ربطة قات شامي فاخرة، وعروسة سجائر. لاحظت أنّ عين النادل كانت تلاحق عروسة السجائر، أمرته أن ينتظر، أزلت غشاءها النايلوني الرقيق ونفحته علبة، فانصرف مسروراً.
      A service worker brought me a bundle of fine Levantine qāt, and a carton of cigarettes. I recognized that the eye of the waiter was fixed on the carton of cigarettes, I hight him to bide, removed the thin nylon covering and tipped him a packet, and he left in gaiety.

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 with 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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