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مُنْتَفِشٌ

Root: نفش

Full Definition

مُنْتَفِشٌ : see مَنْفُوشٌ.
2 أَمَپن مُنْتَغِشپُ الشَّعَرِ A female slave having shaggy or dishevelled hair: شَعْتآءُ.
3 مُنْتَفِشن is likewise applied to anything Swollen, or humid, and loose or flaccid or soft within; as also .
4 You say also أَنْفٌ مُنْتفِشٌ A nose short in the مَارِن [is soft part], and spreading upon the face, like the nose of the زَنْجِىّ] and أَرْنَبَپٌ مُنْتَفِشَپٌ has the like signification; as also ; or in means are cad of a nose spreading upon the face: and المُنْخِريْنِ, in like manner, wide in the two nostrils. See also مُنَتَفّسٌ.
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