Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

نَفْسَانِىٌّ ذ : see نَفْسِىٌّ: ― -b2- and نَفُوسٌ.

نِفَاسٌ ذ (tropical:) Childbirth (S, K) from نَفْسٌ signifying “ blood. ” (Msb, TA.) See نُفِسَتْ. ― -b2- [And The state of impurity consequent upon childbirth. See 5, in art. عل.] ― -b3- Also, (tropical:) The blood that comes forth immediately after the child: an inf. n. used as a subst. (Mgh.) ― -b4- A poet says, (namely, Ows Ibn-Hajar, O, in art. طرق,) لَنَا صَرْخَةٌ ثُمَّ اـِسْكَاتَةٌ كَمَا طَرَّقَتْ بِنِفَاسٍ بِكِرْ [ We utter a cry; then keep a short silence; like as when one that has never yet brought forth experiences resistance and difficulty in giving birth to a child, or young one ]; meaning, بِوَلَدٍ. (S.)

نَفُوسٌ ذ An envious man: (M, TA:) (tropical:) one who looks with an evil eye, with injurious intent, at the property of others: (M, A, * TA:) as also ↓ نَفْسَانٌ, (TA,) or ↓ نَفْسَانِىٌّ. (A.)

نَفِيسٌ ذ A thing high in estimation; of high account; excellent; (Lh, M, Msb, TA;) [ highly prized; precious; valuable; and therefore (TA) desired with emulation, or in much request; (S, K, TA;) good, goodly, or excellent, in its kind; (TA;) and ↓ نَافِسٌ signifies the same, (M,) and so does ↓ مُنْفِسٌ, (Lh, M, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ مَنْفُوسٌ: (K:) it signifies thus when applied to property, as well as other things; as also ↓ مَنْفِسٌ: (Lh, M:) and, when so applied, of which one is avaricious, or tenacious: (M:) or ↓ مُنْفِسٌ, so applied, abundant; much; (K;) as also ↓ مُنْفَسٌ: (Fr, K:) and ↓ نَافِسٌ, a thing of high account or estimation, and an object of desire: (TA:) this last is also applied, in like manner, to a man; as also نَفِيسٌ: and the pl. [of either] is نِفَاسٌ (M, TA) You also say, ↓ أَمْرٌ مَنْفُوسٌ فِيهِ, meaning, A thing that is desired. (M.) And فِيهِ ↓ شَىْءٌ مُتَنَافَسٌ A thing emulously desired, or in much request. (A.) ― -b2- Also, [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] Much property; (S, A, K;) and so ↓ مُنْفِسٌ. (S.) You say, لِفُلَانٍ مُنْفِسٌ and نَفِيسٌ Such a one has much property. (S.) And مَا يَسُرُّنِى بِهٰذَا الأَمْرِ مَنْفِسٌ and نَفِيسٌ [ Much property does not rejoice me with this affair ]. (S.)

نَافِسٌ ذ : see نَفِيسٌ, in three places. -A2- See also نُفَسَاآءُ. -A3- (tropical:) Smiting with an evil, or envious, eye. (S, M, K.) -A4- The fifth of the arrows used in the game called المَيْسِر; (S, M, K;) which has five notches; and for which one wins five portions if it be successful, and loses five portions if it be unsuccessful: (Lh, M:) or, as some say, the fourth. (S.)

هٰذَا أَنْفَسُ مَالِى ذ This is the most loved and highly esteemed of my property. (S, TA.) -A2- بَلَّغَكَ ا@للّٰهُ أَنْفَسَ الأَعْمَارِ (tropical:) [ May God cause thee to attain to the most protracted, or most ample, of lives: see 5]. (A, TA.) And دَارُكَ أَنْفَسُ مِنْ دَارِى (tropical:) Thy house is more ample, or spacious, than my house: (M:) and the like is said of two places: (M:) and of two lands. (A.) And هٰذَا التَّوْبُ أَنْفَسُ مِنْ هٰذَا (tropical:) This garment, or piece of cloth, is wider and longer and more excellent than this. (M.) And ثَوْبٌ أَنْفَسُ الثَّوْبَيْنِ (tropical:) A garment, or piece of cloth, the longer and wider of the two garments, or pieces of cloth. (A.)

مُنْفَسٌ ذ : see نَفِيسٌ; for the latter, throughout.

مُنْفِسٌ ذ : see نَفِيسٌ; for the latter, throughout.

مَنْفُوسٌ ذ : see نَفِيسٌ, in two places. -A2- (tropical:) Brought forth; born. (S, M, A, Msb, K.) It is said in a trad., مَا مِنْ نَفْسٍ مَنْفُوسَةٍ اـِلَّا وَقَذْ كُتِبَ مَكَانُهَا مِنَ الجَنَّةِ أَوِ النَّارِ (tropical:) [ There is not any soul born but its place in Paradise or Hell has been written ]. (S.) ― -b2- مَنْفُوسَةٌ applied to a woman: see نُفَسَاآءُ. -A3- (tropical:) Smitten with an evil, or envious, eye. (M.)

[ مُتَنَفَّسٌ ذ A place of passage of the breath. ] ― -b2- فى عُمُرِهِ مُتَنَفَّسٌ: see نَفَسٌ. ― -b3- See also سَحَرٌ.

مُتَنَفِّسٌ ذ [ Breathing; ] having breath: (TA:) or having a soul: (so in a copy of the M:) an epithet applied to everything having lungs. (S, TA.) ― -b2- غَائِطٌ مُتَنَفِّسٌ (tropical:) A depressed expanse of land extending far. (A, TA.) ― -b3- أَنْفٌ مُتَنَفِّسٌ (tropical:) A nose of which the bone is wide and depressed; or depressed and expanded; or a nose spreading upon the face: syn. أَفْطَسُ. (A, TA.)

شَىْءٌ مُتَنَافَسٌ فِيهِ ذ : see نَفِيسٌ.

1 نَفَشَ ذ , (S, A,) aor. نَفُشَ , (S,) inf. n. نَفْشٌ, (S, A, K,) He separated, or plucked asunder, or loosened, a thing, with his fingers, so that it became spread, or sparse, or dispersed; (A, K;) as also ↓ نفّش, inf. n. تَنْفِيشٌ: (S, K:) or the latter has an intensive signification: and accord. to some, the former signifies he separated a thing not difficult to separate, such as cotton and wool: or he pulled wool until its parts became separated, or plucked asunder, or loosened: (TA:) or he spread, or dispersed, a thing. (MF.) You say, نَفَشْتُ القُطْنَ and الصُّوفَ [ I separated or plucked asunder, or loosened, with my fingers, &c., the cotton and the wool ]. (S, A.) نَفْشٌ is likewise syn. with نَدْفٌ [the separating and loosening cotton by means of a bow and a wooden mallet ]. (TA.) You also say, نَفَشَ الرَّطْبَةَ, inf. n. as above, meaning, He separated what was collected together, or compacted, in the [ kind of trefoil called ] رطبة. (TA.) And, of a cock, (T, S, in art. بول.) or of a حُبَارَى, (K, in that art.,) when about to fight, (T, K. ibid.,) نَفَشَ بُرَائِلَهُ [ He ruffled the feathers around his neck ]. (T, S, K, ibid.) -A2- It is also intrans syn. with انتفش, q. v. (TA.) ― -b2- [And hence,] نَفَشَتِ الغَنَمُ, (S, A, K,) and الاـِبِلُ, (S, Msb, K,) accord. to IDrd the former only, but accord. to others the latter also, and in like manner one says of all beasts, though mostly of غَنَم, (TA,) aor. (S, Msb, K) and نَفِشَ , (S, K,) inf. n. نَفْشٌ, (Msb, K,) or نُفُوشٌ, (S,) or both: (TA;) and نَفشت, aor. نَفَشَ ; (IAar. Sgh, K;) The sheep or goats, and the camels, pastured by night without a pastor: (S, Msb, K:) or without the knowledge of a pastor (TA:) or dispersed themselves by night: (A:) or dispersed themselves and pastured by night without knowledge [ of the pastor ]: or the sheep or goats entered among seed-produce: (TA:) occurring in the Kur, xxi. 78: (S, TA:) the subst. is نَفَشٌ, signifying their dispersion of themselves and pasturing by night without a pastor. (Msb.)

2 نَفَّشَ see 1, first signification.

4 انفش الغَنَمَ ذ , (S, A, K.) and الاـِبِلَ, (S, K,) He (the pastor) sent the sheep or goats, and the camels, (K, * TA,) or left them, (S, TA,) to pasture by night without a pastor; (S, K, TA,) neglecting them: (TA:) or to disperse themselves by night. (A.)

5 تَنفّشت الهِرَّةُ ذ , (S, A, K,) and ↓ انتفشت, (S, A,) The cat bristled up her hair. (S, A, K.) And in like manner you say of a hyena. (A, TA, *) And تنفّش الدِّيكُ, (A,) or الطَّاِئرُ, (K,) and ↓ انتفش, (A, TA,) The cock, (A,) or bird, (K,) ruffled, (A,) or shook, (K,) his feathers, as though he feared, (A, K,) or threatened, (A,) or trembled. (K.)

8 انتفش ذ i. q. نَفَشَ used intransitively. [signifying It (a thing, or cotton, and wool, and the like,) became separated, or plucked asunder, or loosened, with the fingers, so that it became spread, or sparse, or dispersed; &c., being] quasi-pass. of نَفَشَ used transitively. (TA.) See also مُنْتَفِشٌ. And see 5, in two places.

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.

نَفَّاشٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) Proud and boastful. or one who praises himself for that which is not in him; or who says that which he does not. (TA.) -A2- A kind of لَيْمُون or citron; the limon sponginus sugosus Ferrari; (Delile, Floræ Aegypt. Illustr., no. 749)] of the largest size, (TA.)

نَافِشٌ ذ , applied to a camel [and to a sheep or goat]. fem. نَافشةٌ, Msb, part. n. of 1. (Msb, TA.) You say, اـِبِلٌ نَافِشَةٌ, Msb, and نَفَشٌ [quasi-pl. p. of نَافِشٌ] (S, K) and نِفَاشٌ (Msb) and نُفَّاشٌ (S, K) and نُفّشٌ [pls. of نَافشٌ] (TA) and نَوَافِشٌ [pl. of نَافِشةٌ], (S, K,) [and in like manner عَنَمٌ,] Camels [and goats ] pasturing by night without a pastur: (S, Msb, K; or dispersing themselves and pasturing by night without knowledge [ of the pastor ] (TA:) نَفَشٌ are only by night; but هَمَلٌ, by night and by day (S,)

عِهْنٌ مَنْفُوشٌ ذ (S) Wool of ramous colours separated and loosened by means of bow wooden mallet: (Bd, Jel, ei. 4.) and in like manner, ↓ قُطْنٌ مُسْتَفِشٌ [ cotton that is separated, or plucked asunder, or loosened, with the fingers, so that it becomes spread, or dispersed. &c., See 1 and 8]. (TA, voce هَيّبَانٌ,) See also مُسْتَفشٌ, below.

مُنْتَفِشٌ ذ : see مَنْفُوشٌ.― -b2- أَمَPن مُنْتَغِشPُ الشَّعَرِ A female slave having shaggy or dishevelled hair: (A;) شَعْتاآءُ. (K) ― -b3- مُنْتَفِشن is likewise applied to anything Swollen, or humid, and loose or flaccid or soft within; as also ↓ مُتَعّشٌ. (Az, K.) ― -b4- You say also أَنْفٌ مُنْتفِشٌ (tropical:) A nose short in the مَارِن [is soft part], and spreading upon the face, like the nose of the زَنْجِىّ] (A;) and أَرْنَبَPٌ مُنْتَفِشَPٌ has the like signification; as also ↓ مُتَنَفِّشَPٌ; (TA;) or in means are cad of a nose spreading upon the face: (K:) and ↓ مُتَبَفّشُ المُنْخِريْنِ, in like manner, wide in the two nostrils. (TA.) See also مُنَتَفّسٌ.

مُتَنَفِّشٌ ذ : see مُنْتَفِشٌ, in three places.

1 نَفَضَ ذ , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. نَفُضَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. نَفْضٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) He shook (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) a thing, (Mgh, Msb,) or a garment, or piece of cloth, (S, A, K,) in order that what was upon it, of dust &c., might fall off (S, * A, * Mgh, K, *) or to remove from it dust and the like; (Msb:) he took a thing with his hand, and shook it, or shook it violently, to remove the dust from it: (TA:) and in like manner a tree, in order that what was upon it [ of face or of leaves ] might fall of; (S, A;) as, for instance,] a tree of the kind called عِضاه, to shake off its leaves. (TA) You say also, نَفَضَ عَنَهُ الغُبَارَ and التُّرَابَ [ He shook off from it the dust (A.) And نَفَضَتُ الوَرَقَ مِنْ الشَّجَرَة. inf. n. as above, [ He shook off the leaves from the tree; ] be made the leaves to fall from the tree. (Msb,) And نَفْضٌ also signifies The sprinkling or scattering in drops, (syn. رَشٌّ,) water and blood. (A, K, in art. رش,) and tears, (K, ibid.) &c. (A,ibid.) ― -b2- [Hence,] نَفَضَتْهُ الحُمَّى (S, A, K) (tropical:) The fever made him to shiver, or tremble (As, TA ― -b3- And نَفَضَتِ المَرْأَةُ, (K,) or نَفضَتٌ كَرشَهَا (S,) or نَفَضَتْ وَلَدَهَا مِنْ بَطْنها, (A,)‡ The woman bore many children; was prolific (S, K. TA) And نَفَضَت الاـِبِلُ (assumed tropical:) The she-camels brought forth, (S, L, K,) all of them: (L;) and ↓ انعضت signifies the same. (IDrd, S, K.) And بَيْضَها نَغَضَتِ الدَّحَاجَPُ (tropical:) [ The hen laid her eggs. or all her eggs A. TA.) ― -b4- Hence also,] فَامَ يَنَفُضُ الكرَى, He arose, shaking off drowsiness ]. (A. TA.) And نَفَضَ الأَسْفَامَ عَنْهُ وَا@سْتَصَحّ; [ He shook off maladies from him, and recovered from his sickness] ; i. e. his health became in a sound state (A. TA.) And نَفَضَ مِنْ مَرَضِهِ (A,) inf. n. نُفُوضٌ, (TA, K,) (tropical:) He recovered, or became free, from his disease (A, K, * TA.) ― -b5- And نَفَضْتُ لَهُ مَا فِى جِرَابِى † I showed him what was in my heart. (Er-Rághib, TA, in art. شكو and شكى ― -b6- And نَفَضَ الطَّرِيقَ (tropical:) He cleared the road of robbers, and intercepters of travellers: (tropical:) he guarded the road. (A, TA. [The latter signification is shown by an explanation or the act. part. n.] It is said in the trad. of Aboo-Bekr and the cave [ in which Mohammad was hiding himself], أَنَا أَنَفُضُ مَا حَوْلَكَ (tropical:) I will guard what is around thee, and go round about to try if I can see a pursuer. (TA.) You say also, نَفَضَ المَكَان, (S, K,) aor. as above, (TA.) inf. n. نَفَضٌ (S, TA.) and ↓ استنفضهُ, and ↓ تنفّضهُ; (S, K;) (tropical:) He looked trying to see all that was in the place: (S;) or he looked at all that was in the place so as to know it. (K) And hence نَفَضَ signifies (tropical:) He searched to the at most. (L.) And اـِذَا تَكَلَّمُت نَهَارًا فَا@نْفُضْ وَاـِذَا تَكَلَّمْتَ لَيْلًا فَا@خْفِضْ (S, K, * TA) (tropical:) When thou speakest by day, look aside, or about, to try if thou see any one whom thou dislikest; (S, K, TA;) and when thou speakest by night, lower thy voice. (TA.) And القَوْمَ ↓ استنفض (tropical:) He looked at the people, or company of men, endeavouring to obtain a clear knowledge of them; or considered, or examined, them repeatedly, in order to know them. (TA.) The saying of El-'Ojeyr Es-Saloolee, القَوْمَ طَرْفُهُ ↓ اـِلَى مَلِكٍ يَسْتَنْفِضُ means (tropical:) [ To a king whose eye ] looks at the people, or company of men, and knows who among them has the right on his side: or looks to see in whom among them is mental perception, sagacity, intelligence, forecast, or skill in affairs, and which of them is of the contrary description: (TA:) [or] طَرْفُهُ القَوْمَ ↓ فُلَانٌ يَسْتَنْفِضُ means (tropical:) [ The eye of ] such a one makes the people, or company of men, to tremble, by reason of his awfulness. (A, TA.) ― -b7- You also say, الاـِبِلُ تَنْفُضُ الأَرْضَ (assumed tropical:) The camels traverse the land. (IAar.) ― -b8- And نَفَضَ القُرْاآنَ, (IAar,) or السُّوَرَ, (K,) aor. نَفُضَ , inf. n. نَفْضٌ, (IAar,) (tropical:) He read, or recited, (IAar, K,) the Kur-án, (IAar,) or the chapters thereof. (K.) ― -b9- And نَفَضْنَا حَلَائِبَنَا, inf. n. نَفْضٌ; and ↓ اِسْتَنْفَضْنَاهَا; (tropical:) We milked our milch beasts to the uttermost, not leaving any milk in their udders: (TA:) and الفَصِيلُ مَا فِى الضَّرْعِ ↓ انتفض (tropical:) the young camel sucked out all that was in the udder. (A, TA.) -A2- [It is also used intransitively in the following exs., as well as in some instances given above. Thus نَفَضَ الشَّجَرُ app. signifies The trees shook off, or dropped, their leaves or fruit. (See an ex. voce عَتِيقٌ, last sentence but one.) ― -b2- And hence] one says, نَفَضَ مَا فِى الجُلَّةِ [app. meaning What was in the palm-leaf basket became exhausted; like نَفِدَ; or it may be syn. with انتفض]; (A, K;) or جَمِيعُ مَا فِيهَا [ all that was in it; which shows that ما in the former instance is virtually in the nom. case]. (TA.) See also 4, in two places. ― -b3- And نَفَضَ الصِّبْغُ, (ISh, Mgh, K,) inf. n. نَفْضٌ, (ISh, TA,) or نُفُوضٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) The dye (ISh, K, TA,) of a red or yellow garment, or piece of cloth, (ISh, TA,) lost somewhat of its colour. (ISh, K, TA.) And hence, (Mgh,) نَفَضَ الثَّوْبُ, (A, Mgh,) aor. نَفُضَ , (A,) inf. n. نُفُوضٌ, (A, Mgh,) (tropical:) The garment, or piece of cloth, lost its dye: (A:) or lost somewhat of its colour, of redness, or yellowness: (Mgh:) or the colour of its dye faded away so that there remained nothing but the trace. (TA.) نَفْضٌ, accord. to the lawyers, signifies (assumed tropical:) The being scattered, strewn, strewed, or dispersed: and accord. to [the Hanafee Imám] Mohammad, the non-transition of the trace of the dye to another thing: or its exhaling a sweet odour. (Mgh [but it seems that the particle لا, which I have rendered “ non, ” is inserted by mistake in my copy of the Mgh.]) ― -b4- نَفَضَ الزَّرْعُ, (K,) or نَفَضَ الزَّرْعُ سَبَلًا, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) The seed-produce put forth the last of its ears. (K, [...]

2 نفّض ذ , (S, TA,) inf. n. تَنْفِيضٌ, (TA,) He shook a garment, or piece of cloth, and a tree, much, or vehemently, in order that what was upon it might fall off. (S, TA. *) ― -b2- Said of a horse, i. q. رَفَّضَ, q. v. (TA in art. رفض.)

4 أَنْفَضَتِ الجُلَّةُ ذ i. q. مَا فِى الجُلَّةِ ↓ نَفَضَ, (A, K,) or جَمِيعُ مَا فِيهَا: (TA:) see 1. ― -b2- انفضوا originally signifies They shook their provision-bags, in order that the dust or the like might fall from them. (A.) And hence, (A,) (tropical:) Their travellingprovisions became consumed, (S, M, A, K, TA,) and their wheat, or food; (M, TA;) like أَرْمَلُوا; (S, M, K, * TA;) as though they shook their provision-bags in order that the dust or the like might fall from them, because of their being empty; (TA;) as also ↓ نَفَضُوا: (K:) or انفضوا, (K,) or, as IDrd says, انفضوا زَادَهُمْ, making the verb trans., (TA,) They consumed their travellingprovisions. (IDrd, K.) And (tropical:) Their camels, or the like, (أَمْوَالُهُمْ,) died, or perished. (S, K.) اـِنْفَاضٌ [the inf. n.] also signifies (assumed tropical:) The suffering hunger, or famine: and want. (TA.) ― -b3- انفضت الاـِبِلُ: see نفضت.

5 تنفّض المَكَانَ ذ : see 1.

8 انتفض ذ It (a thing, Mgh, Msb, or a garment, or piece of cloth, S, A, K, and a tree, S, A) shook, or became shaken, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) so that what was upon it, of dust &c., fell off, (Mgh,) or so that the dust and the like became removed from it. (Msb.) Hence the saying in a trad., يَنْتَفِضُ بِهِ الصِّرَاطُ, i. e. [ The bridge extending over hell will shake with him so that he will fall from it: or] will shake him, or shake him violently, or [app. a mistake for and ] make him to fall. (Mgh.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He trembled, quaked, or shivered: said of a man, and of a horse. (A, TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) It (a grapevine) became beautiful and bright in its leaves: (K:) [as though its dust became shaken off.] -A2- It is also used transitively: see 1, latter half: and see 10, in three places.

10 استنفض القَوْمُ ذ (tropical:) The people, or company of men, sent forth a نَفِيضَة, (S, K, * TA,) or party of scouts: (TA:) or sent forth نَفَضَة, or persons to clear the roads of robbers and of intercepters of travellers, or to guard the roads. (A, L, TA.) ― -b2- استنفض المَكَانَ: and القَوْمَ: see 1, in four places. ― -b3- استنفضهُ also signifies (tropical:) He extracted, educed, or elicited, it. (A, Mgh, * K.) You say, اِسْتَنْفَضْتُ مَا عِنْدَهُ (tropical:) I extracted, educed, or elicited, what he had. (A, TA. *) ― -b4- And hence, (Mgh,) استنفض (tropical:) He performed the act of cleansing termed اِسْتِنْجَاآء, (Mgh, K,) with three stones, (Mgh,) or with the stone: (K:) or this is from نَفَضَ الثَّوْبَ; because the person who performs this act shakes off from himself what is annoying, with the stone; i. e., removes it. (TA.) You say also, استنفض الذَّكَرَ (tropical:) He took extraordinary pains in cleansing, or he cleansed entirely, (اـِسْتَبْرَأَ,) the penis from the remains of the urine; as also ↓ انتفضهُ; (K;) and ↓ انتفض [alone]: (TA:) and ↓ this last, he sprinkled some water upon his pudendum after the ablution termed وُضُوْء. (TA in art. نصح.) ― -b5- [Hence also,] استفضنا حَلَائِبَنَا: see 1.

نَفَضٌ ذ What has fallen, of the produce of a tree; (TA;) what has fallen, of leaves, and of fruit: (S, Msb, K:) or a thing that one shakes [or has shaken ] off: (T in art. ذرى:) of the measure فَعَلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) like قَبَضٌ in the sense of مَقْبُوضٌ, (S, TA,) and هَدَمٌ in the sense of مَهْدُومٌ: (TA:) and (K, TA) what has fallen, (TA,) of grapes, [in the CK we find حَبُّ العِنَبِ for حَبِّ العِنَبِ, the reading in other copies of the K,] when they are found (يُوجَدُ [in the CK يُؤْخَدُ, thus, with خ, and with the unpointed د,]) one with another, (K. TA,) or cleaving one to another: (L, TA:) or what has fallen, of dates, at the feet of the palm-trees: (M, TA:) or what has fallen, of fruit, at the feet of trees; as also ↓ أَنَافِيضُ: (A:) or ↓ this last signifies leaves that are shaken off upon the نِفَاض, q. v.; as also ↓ نِفَاضٌ [which is app. pl. of نَفَضٌ, like as جِبَالٌ is pl. of جَبَلٌ]: (Sgh, K:) the sing. of انافيض is ↓ أُنْفُوضَةٌ. (TA.) [See also نُفَاضَةٌ.] -A2- قوْمٌ نَفَضٌ [app. quasi-pl. of ↓ نَافِضٌ, like as خَدَمٌ is of خَادِمٌ,] (tropical:) A people, or company of men, whose travelling-provisions have become consumed. (ISh.)

نُفْضَةٌ ذ (tropical:) The shivering, or trembling, attending a fever termed النَّافِض; (S, K;) as also ↓ نُفَضَهٌ (Sgh, K) and ↓ نُفَضَاآءُ. (S, K.) [See also نِفِّضَى.] The subst. [from these words, which seems to indicate that they are inf. ns. or from نَفَضَتْهُ الحُمَّى, which precedes them in the K,] is ↓ نَفَاضٌ [app. signifying (tropical:) A shivering, or tremour, attending that fever ]. (K.) -A2- (assumed tropical:) A rain which falls upon a piece of land and misses another piece. (S.) [In the O and K in art. عهد, written نَفْضَة.]

نَفَضَةٌ ذ : see نَفِيضَةٌ, in two places.

نُفَضَةٌ ذ : see نُفْضَةٌ.

نَفَضَى ذ : see نِفِّيضَى.

نُفَضَاآءُ ذ : see نُفْضَةٌ.

نَفَاضٌ ذ : see نُفْضَةٌ: -A2- and see نُفَاضٌ.

نُفَاضٌ ذ : see نُفَاضَةٌ. -A2- Also, and ↓ نَفَاضٌ, (tropical:) The failure of travelling-provisions; i. e. their being consumed: or dearth, or drought: (S, K:) the latter of the words, and of the explanations, on the authority of Th. (S.) Hence, النفاضُ يُقَطِّرُ الجَلَبَ, (S, K,) a proverb, meaning, (tropical:) The failure of provisions, (TA,) or dearth, or drought, (S, K, TA,) causes the camels, driven or brought from one place to another, to be disposed in files for sale, (S, K, TA,) in order that their owners may buy provisions with their price. (TA.)

نِفَاضٌ ذ : see نُفَاضَةٌ: and نَفَضٌ. -A2- A piece of cloth upon which the leaves of the سَمُرُ and the like fall, it being spread, (K, TA.) and the tree being beaten with a staff, or stick: (TA:) pl. نُفُضٌ: (K:) and [in like manner] ↓ مِنْفَضٌ and ↓ مِنْفَاضٌ signify a garment of the kind called كِسَاآء, upon which the نَفَض [or leaves or fruit of a tree ] fall: (A, TA:) or ↓ مِنْفَضٌ signifies i. q. مِنْسَفٌ, (S, K,) i. e. a vessel (وِعَاآء) in which dates [ and grain ] are shaken to remove the dust &c. (TA.) ― -b2- A garment of the kind called اـِزَار worn by boys: (S, K:) pl. as above. (TA.) You say also, مَا عَلَيْهِ نِفَاضٌ, (S, K,) meaning He has not upon him any clothing. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

نَفُوضٌ ذ (tropical:) A woman having many children: prolific. (S, A, K.) -A2- رَجُلٌ نَفُوضٌ لِلْكَلَامِ (tropical:) A man who considers, examines, or studies, speech, or language, or does so repeatedly, in order to obtain a clear knowledge of it. (TA.)

نُفَاضَةٌ ذ What has fallen in consequence of shaking to cause something upon it to fall; (S;) what has fallen from a thing so shaken; (IDrd, K;) whatever it be; as, for instance, of leaves; and mostly, of leaves of the سَمُر in particular, when collected and beaten off [or rather beaten off and collected ] in a garment, or piece of cloth; (IDrd, L, TA;) [like نَفَضٌ, q. v.;] and ↓ نُفَاضٌ signifies the same; (S, K;) and ↓ نِفَاضٌ also. (K.) And What remains in one's mouth, of a سِوَاك [or tooth-stick ], and is spit out; or a particle broken off therefrom, remaining in the mouth, and spit out; i. q. نُفَاثَةُ سِوَاكٍ, (IAar, K,) and ضُوَازَتُهُ. (IAar.)

نَفِيضَةٌ ذ (tropical:) A company sent forth into the land to see whether there be in it an enemy, (S, K,) or not, (K,) or any [ cause of ] fear; (S;) like طَلِيعَةٌ; (S, TA;) as also ↓ نَفَضَةٌ; [pl. of ↓ نَافِضٌ, like as طَلَبَةٌ is of طَالِبٌ:] (S, K:) or the former signifies men going before an army as scouts, or explorers: (As, in TA, voce حَضِيرَةٌ:) or men who explore a place thoroughly: and also, a single person: (A 'Obeyd, in TA, ibid.:) or a scout, or scouts, stationed on a mountain or other elevated place: (TA:) or one who guards the road: (A, TA:) or a company [ of men ]: (TA:) and ↓ the latter, persons who clear the roads of robbers and of intercepters of travellers; or who guard the roads; (A, TA:) the pl. of the former is نَفَائِضُ; (S;) which also signifies persons who throw pebbles in order to know if there be behind them anything that they dislike, or an enemy. (K.) ― -b2- Also, the pl., (assumed tropical:) Lean, or emaciated, camels; (S, K:) accord to AA, as occurring in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, in which he says, تُلْقِى النَّفَائِضُ فِيهِ السَّرِيحَا (S, TA,) In which the lean, or emaciated, camels cast the shoes; meaning that these have become dissundered; or, as Akh says, the thongs so called [ by which their shoes are fastened ], these being dissundered; فيه referring to the road; but some read, فِيهَا, referring to the roads, mentioned before: (TA:) As reads نفائض, as well as AA: (S, TA:) but others read the word with ق, as pl. of نِقْضٌ, and signifying “ jaded ” camels: (so in a copy of the S:) or نفائض signifies camels which traverse the land. (IAar, K.) ― -b3- The sing. is also said to signify Waters where there is not any one. (IAar, Sh; both in the TA. voce حَضِيرَةٌ, q. v., and the former also in this art.)

نِفِّضَى ذ Motion: and tremour; or shivering; as also ↓ نِفِضَّى and ↓ نَفَضَى. (O, K.) [See also نُفْضَةٌ.]

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.)

أُنْفُوضَةٌ ذ : pl. أَنَافِيضُ: see نَفَضٌ, in three places.

دَجَاجَةٌ مُنْفِضٌ ذ , (A,) or منفضة [i. e. مُنْفِضَةٌ], (TA,) (tropical:) A hen that has laid her eggs, or all her eggs, (نَفَضَتْ بَيْضَهَا, A, TA,) and desisted, (A,) or become weary. (TA.)

مِنْفَضٌ ذ : see نِفَاضٌ; for the former, in two places.

مِنْفَاضٌ ذ : see نِفَاضٌ; for the former, in two places.

مَنْفُوضٌ ذ (tropical:) Made to shiver, or tremble, by fever (S, K.)

1 نَفِطَتْ يَدُهُ ذ , (S, Msb,) or كَفُّهُ, (K,) aor. نَفَطَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. نَفَطٌ and نَفِيطٌ (S, Msb, K,) and نَفْطٌ; (K;) or, accord. to AZ, نَفَطتْ, aor. 2, inf. n. نَفْطٌ and نَفِيطٌ; (TA;) His hand became blistered, or vesicated; it had water, or fluid, between the skin and the flesh; (AZ, Msb;) i. q. مَجِلَتْ; (S, K;) as also ↓ تنفّطت: (S:) or it became ulcerated by work. (K.) -A2- نَفَطَتْ aor. نَفِطَ , inf. n. نَفِيطٌ (ADk, S, K) and نَفْطٌ. (TA,) She (a goat) did what was like sneezing (نَثَرَتْ [app. meaning scattered forth moisture or the like ]) with her nose: (ADk, S, K:) or sneezed. (K.) It is said in a proverb, لَا تَنْفِطُ فِيهِ عَنَاقٌ meaning (assumed tropical:) Blood-revenge will not be taken for him; i. e. for this slain person. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, (S, K,) aor. نَفِطَ , inf. n. نَفِيطٌ, (S,) It (a cookingpot, قِدْرٌ,) boiled, (S, K,) and poured forth [ some of its contents ], (S,) or so that it threw forth what resembled arrows; (TA;) a dial. var. of نَفَتَتْ. (S.) ― -b3- نَفَطَ, aor. نَفِطَ , (assumed tropical:) He was angry: or he burned with anger: as also ↓ تنفّط. (K, TA.) You say, اـِنَّ فُلَانًا لَيَنْفِطُ غَضَبًا, (S, TA,) (tropical:) Verily such a one burns with anger: (TA:) or it is like يَنْفِتُ [meaning boils with anger; or makes a noise like coughing, in anger; or blows, in anger ]: (S:) [for the inf. n.] نَفَطَانٌ signifies the doing what resembles coughing: and blowing, on an occasion of anger: and so نَفَتَانٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- Also, (K,) aor. نَفِطَ , inf. n. نَفِيطٌ, said of an antelope; الصَّبِىُّ in the K, being a mistake for الظَّبْىِ, as in the TS and L, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He uttered a sound, or cry. (TS, L, K.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) He (a man) spoke, or talked, unintelligibly; (K, TA;) as though by reason of his anger. (TA.) ― -b6- نَفَطَتِ ا@سْتُهُ (assumed tropical:) His anus emitted wind with a sound. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

3 نَاْفَطَ see 6.