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نُفَاضٌ

Root: نفض

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نُفَاضٌ : see نُفَاضَةٌ.

def.2 Also, and نَفَاضٌ , The failure of travelling-provisions; i. e. their being consumed: or dearth, or drought: the latter of the words, and of the explanations, on the authority of Th. Hence, النفاضُ يُقَطِّرُ الجَلَبَ, a proverb, meaning, The failure of provisions, or dearth, or drought, causes the camels, driven or brought from one place to another, to be disposed in files for sale, in order that their owners may buy provisions with their price.
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