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اَنَّفَ

Root: انف

Form: 2

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اَنَّفَII see 4.

def.2 تَأْنِيفٌ also signifies The sharpening, or making pointed, the extremity of a thing. You say of a spear-head, or an arrow-head, or a blade, أُنِّفّ, Verbal.Noun تَأْنِيفٌ, It was sharpened or pointed [at its extremity].
2 [Used as a subst.,] Sharpness of the extremity of the hock; which, in a horse, is approved.
3 أُنِّفَ تَأْنِيفَ السَّيْرِ, said by an Arab of the desert in describing a horse, means He was made even, like as is made even the cut thong or strap.

def.3 The seeking after herbage, or pasture, such as is termed أُنُف.
2 أنّف مَالَهُ, or الإِبِلَ, Verbal.Noun as above; and , Verbal.Noun إِينَافٌ; He pastured his beasts upon the first of the herbage: or he pursued, with the camels, repeatedly, or gradually, or step by step, after the first of the herbage, or after the herbage which had not been pastured upon: or he went with them thereto.
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