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انح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

اآنِحٌ اآنح act. part. n. of 1; A man breathing hard, or violently, &c.: and a man who, when he is asked for a thing, makes a reiterated hemming in his throat (يَتَنَحْنحُ), by reason of niggardliness; as also ↓ أَنُوحٌ, and ↓ أُنَّحٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ أَنَّاحٌ: (Lh:) or ↓ أَنُوحٌ signifies a man who hangs back from, or falls short of, doing generous deeds; as also أَزُوحٌ: (El-Ghanawee and S in art. ازح, and TA in the present art.:) and is also applied to a horse, meaning that runs, and makes a kind of groaning noise; اـِذَا جَرَى فَزَفَرَ: this is the right reading in the K: in some copies اذا جرى قَرْقَرَ [ that makes a rumbling sound in his belly when he runs ]: (TA:) the pl. of اآنِحٌ is أُنَّحٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- اآنِحَةٌ, applied to a female, signifies Short. (K.)

Derived headwords

اآنِحٌ
  1. 1.
اـِذَا جَرَى فَزَفَرَ
اذا جرى قَرْقَرَ