انف

10 استأنفهُ ذ and ↓ ائتنفهُ [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَنَفَهُ] (assumed tropical:) He took [ its أَنْف, i. e.,] the first of it: (M:) he began it, or commenced it: (S, ↓ M, Msb, K: *) or i. q. اِسْتَقْبَلَهُ [which has also the latter of the two significations mentioned above, (Mgh in art. قبل,) and moreover signifies he anticipated it; and from what follows here, it seems to be probable that this last signification, as well as the other, may be meant by it in this instance]: (T, M:) namely, a thing, (M, Msb,) or an affair. (T.) You say, استأنفهُ بِوَعْدٍ (assumed tropical:) He made him a promise in anticipation; without his asking it of him. (M.) And, of a woman, اُسْتُؤْنِفَتْ بِالنِّكَاحِ أَوَّلًا (assumed tropical:) [ She was just married, or bedded, for the first time ]. (M.) See also أُنُفٌ, last sentence. ― -b2- [Hence, حَرْفُ ا@سْتِئْنَافٍ, in grammar, An inceptive particle, placed at the commencement of a new proposition grammatically independent of that which precedes it. ]