نفح

اـِنْفَحَةٌ ذ (S, K, &c.) said to be the most common form of the word, (TA,) for which one should not say أَنْفَحَةٌ, (ISk,) but this is mentioned by Ibn-Et-Teiyánee and the author of the 'Eyn, (MF,) and sometimes it is written and pronounced اـِنْفَحَّةٌ, (K,) or this is the most common form, (Msb,) and most approved, (ISk,) and sometimes اـِنْفِحَةٌ, (K,) and ↓ مِنْفَحَةٌ, (IAar, S, K,) and بِنْفَحَةٌ, (IAar, K,) with ب in the place of the م, (TA,) [The rennet, or rennet-bag, of a kid or lamb; i. e.] A substance that comes forth from the belly of a kid, containing coagulated milk which is termed لِبَأْ, used as a means of converting fresh milk into cheese: (IDrst:) or a thing that is taken forth from the belly of a sucking-pig, (or lamb, Msb,) of a yellow colour, and squeezed in some cotton, ( which is soaked, into milk, L, Msb,) whereupon it (i. e. the milk, MF) becomes thick, like cheese: (L, Msb, K:) or the stomach (كَرِش) of a lamb or kid before it eats: (AZ, S, Msb:) when it eats, it is called كَرِش. (AZ, S.) F imputes inadvertence to J in his explaining انفحة by the term كَرِش; but he does not explain it by this term absolutely; and F adds to his own explanation what makes it exactly the same as that of J, [except that he makes it relate to a kid only,] saying “ when the kid eats, it, ” that is the انفحة, “ is called كَرِش. ” (MF.) None but a ruminating animal has an انفحة. (Lth.) The pl. is أَنَافِحُ. (S, K.) Any انفحة, especially [that of] the hare, if hung upon the thumb of a person suffering from a fever, cures him. (K.) ― -b2- اـِنْفَحَةٌ also signifies A kind of tree (شَجَر) resembling the بَاذِنْجَان. (K.)