نفط

نَفْطٌ ذ , accord. to the T, Pustules which come forth upon the hand, in consequence of work, full of water, or fluid; (Mgh;) blisters, or vesicles, upon the hand; a contraction of ↓ نَفِطٌ; which is pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ نَفِطَةٌ, sometimes contracted into ↓ نَفْطَةٌ; and sometimes نَفِطَاتٌ is used as pl. of نَفِطَةٌ: (Msb:) or ↓ نَفِطَةٌ signifies [simply] a pustule; as also ↓ نَفْطَةٌ and ↓ نِفْطَةٌ; (K;) and the lawyers call it ↓ نَفَّاطَةٌ, from this word as signifying “ a place whence نِفْط issues, ” or it may be [originally] an intensive act. part. n. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also, and ↓ نَفِطٌ, (Msb,) or ↓ نَفِطَةٌ and ↓ نَفْطَةٌ and ↓ نِفْطَةٌ, (Mgh, Sgh, K,) The small-pox: (Mgh, Sgh, Msb, K:) accord. to Z, ↓ نفظ [so in the TA, without any syll. signs,] signifies, in the dial. of Hudheyl, the small-pox in children and in sheep or goats. (TA.) -A2- See also what next follows.