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نفض

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

نَافِضٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A fever attended with shivering, or trembling: (S, A. * K:) of the masc. gender: (ISd, K:) but applied as an epithet to حُمَّى [which is fem.] (TA.) Contr. of صَالِبٌ. (S, in art. صلب.) You say, أَخَذَتْهُ حُمَّى نَافِضٍ, (S, K,) and حُمَّى بِنَافِضٍ, (K,) which is the more approved form, (TA,) and حُمَّى نَافِضٌ, (K,) the latter word being sometimes thus used as an epithet; the second meaning (tropical:) Fever took him, or affected him, with [ a shivering, or trembling, or] violent shivering or trembling; (TA;) [and the first and third, fever attended with shivering, or trembling, took him, or affected him. ] -A2- See also نَفِيضَةٌ -A3- and نَفَضٌ -A4- ثَوْبٌ نَافِضٌ (tropical:) A garment, or piece of cloth, which has lost its dye: (A:) or which has lost somewhat of its colour, of redness, or yellowness. (Mgh.)

Derived headwords

نَافِضٌ
  1. 1.
أَخَذَتْهُ حُمَّى نَافِضٍ
حُمَّى بِنَافِضٍ
حُمَّى نَافِضٌ
ثَوْبٌ نَافِضٌ