أَنَحَ

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أَنَحَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَنْحٌ and أَنِيحٌ and أَنُوحٌ, He breathed hard, or violently, in consequence of heaviness, or oppression, experienced by him as an effect of disease, or of being out of breath, as though he made a reiterated hemming in his throat, (كَأَنَّهُ يَتَنَحْنَحُ,) and did not speak clearly, or plainly: or he made a reiterated hemming in his throat (تَنَحْنَحَ), when asked for a thing, by reason of niggardliness: or he uttered a long, or vehement, sigh, or a kind of groaning sound, (زَفَرَ,) when asked for a thing. You say, يَأْنِحُ عَلَى مَالِهِ He utters a long, or vehement, sigh, or a kind of groaning sound, over his property [from unwillingness to part with it].
2 It is said in a trad. of Ibn-'Omar, رَأَى رَجُلًا يَأْنِحُ بِبَطْنِهِ, meaning, [it is asserted, though this seems doubtful, He saw a man] raising, or lifting, his belly with an effort, oppressed by its weight: from أُنُوحٌ in the last of the senses assigned to it below.

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