نفش

نَفَشٌ ذ Wool. (IAar, K.) ― -b2- [Hence, app., the saying,] اـِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَحْمٌ فَنَفَشٌ, [lit., If there be not fat, then let there be wool; ] meaning, (assumed tropical:) If there be not action, then [let there be] a show of action: (IAar, Az, L:) or the last word signifies a little milk. (Meyd, cited by Freytag: see his Arab Prov., i. 70:) it also signifies, [and perhaps in the above saying,] (tropical:) abundance of speech or talk, and of pretensions. (MF.) -A2- See also 1, at the end. -A3- And see: نَافِشٌ.