نُفَاثَةٌ
Root: نفث
Full Definition
نُفَاثَةٌ
What one blows, or spits, (يَنْفِثُ,) from his mouth.
2 What a person having a disease in his chest blows forth or spits out, يَنْفِثُ.
3 What remains in one's mouth, of a سِوَاك, or tooth-stick, and is spit out: a particle broken off (شَظِيَّةٌ: so in the L &c.: in the K, شَطِيبَةٌ:) from a سواك, or tooth-stick, remaining in the mouth, and spit out. One says, لَوْ سَأَلَنِى نُفَاثَةَ سِوَاكٍ مَا أَعْطَيْتُهُ If he asked me for a particle of a tooth-stick, remaining in my mouth, I would not give him .
2 What a person having a disease in his chest blows forth or spits out, يَنْفِثُ.
3 What remains in one's mouth, of a سِوَاك, or tooth-stick, and is spit out: a particle broken off (شَظِيَّةٌ: so in the L &c.: in the K, شَطِيبَةٌ:) from a سواك, or tooth-stick, remaining in the mouth, and spit out. One says, لَوْ سَأَلَنِى نُفَاثَةَ سِوَاكٍ مَا أَعْطَيْتُهُ If he asked me for a particle of a tooth-stick, remaining in my mouth, I would not give him .
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