أَنَفَهُ
Root: انف
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 It reached his nose, on the occasion of his descending into a river; as also آنفهُ , (K, [but in some copies written again أَنَفَهُ,]) Verbal.Noun إِينَافٌ.
def.2 أَنَفَتِ الإِبِلُ, The camels trod herbage, or pasture, such as is termed أُنُف, i. e., which had not been pastured upon. [But in the TT, as from the M, I find , (which should rather be written أَانَفَ, or, accord. to the more usual mode, آنَفَ,) He trod such herbage, or pasture.]
def.3 أَنِفَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَنَفٌ, He had a complaint of, or suffered pain in, his nose, from the بُرَة [or nose-ring]: from ISk.
2 أَنِفَتِ الإِبِلُ, accord. to certain of the Kilábees, means The flies alighted upon the noses of the camels, and they sought places which they did not seek before.
3 أَنِفَ مِنْهُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَنَفٌ and أَنَفَةٌ, or the latter is a simple subst., [He turned up his nose at it;] he disdained it; scorned it; abstained from it, or refused to do it, by reason of disdain and pride; he disliked it, or hated it, and his soul was above it; namely, a thing: and he shunned it, avoided it, or kept himself far from it: and he disliked it, or hated it; namely, a saying. You say, مَارَأَيْتُ أَحْمَى أَنَفًا مِنْ فُلَانٍ [I have not seen any one more vehemently disdainful, or scornful, than such a one]. And حَمَلَ مِنْ ذٰلِكَ أَنَفًا He conceived, in consequence of that, disdain, or scorn, arising from indignation and anger. [The verb is also trans. without من: you say,] يَأْنَفُ أَنْ يُضامَ [He disdains, or scorns, or refuses to bear, or to submit to, being injured]. [When immediately trans.,] أَنِفَ also signifies He loathed, disliked, or regarded with disgust. You say, أَنِفَ البَعِيرُ الكَلَأَ The camel loathed, disliked, or regarded with disgust, the herbage, or pasture. And أَنفَ الطَّعَامَ وَغَيْرَهُ He disliked the food &c. And أَنِفَتْ فَرَسِى هٰذِهِ هٰذَا البَلَدَ This my mare disliked this region. And تَأْنَفُ فَحْلَهَا She dislikes her male, or stallion. And أَنِفَتْ, said of a woman, signifies She, being pregnant, had no appetite for anything.
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