Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

آنِحٌ

Root: انح

Full Definition

آنِحٌ act. part. n. of 1; A man breathing hard, or violently, &c.: and a man who, when he is asked for a thing, makes a reiterated hemming in his throat (يَتَنَحْنحُ), by reason of niggardliness; as also أَنُوحٌ , and أُنَّحٌ , and أَنَّاحٌ : or أَنُوحٌ signifies a man who hangs back from, or falls short of, doing generous deeds; as also أَزُوحٌ: (El-Ghanawee and S in art. ازح, and TA in the present art.:) and is also applied to a horse, meaning that runs, and makes a kind of groaning noise; إِذَا جَرَى فَزَفَرَ: this is the right reading in the K: in some copies اذا جرى قَرْقَرَ [that makes a rumbling sound in his belly when he runs]: the pl. of آنِحٌ is أُنَّحٌ.
2 آنِحَةٌ, applied to a female, signifies Short.


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