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نَفَخَ

Root: نفخ

Form: 1

Full Definition

نَفَخَI , Present.T ـُ [accord, to Golius and Freytag, incorrectly, ـَ; see Kur, iii. 43, &c.] Verbal.Noun نَفْخٌ; and نفّخ , Verbal.Noun تَنْفِيخٌ; He blew with his mouth; sent forth wind from his mouth; this is done in taking rest, and in labour or exertion, and the like. نَفَخَ is mostly used as a neut. v.; but sometimes it is trans., as many have asserted: you say نَفَخَ الصُّورَ, as well as نَفَخَ فِيهِ, He blew the trumpet, or blew into the trumpet: نَفَخَهُ is a dial. form of نَفَخَ فِيهِ: also, نَفَخَ فِى النَّارِ [he blew the fire; or blew into the fire]: [see 8 in art. قوت:] and نَفَخَ فى الزِّقِّ [he blew into, or inflated, the skin]: and sometimes one says نَفَخَهُ. نُفْخُوا occurs in a verse of El-Katámee for نُفِخُوا.
2 نَفَخَ الشَّيْطَانُ فِى أَنْفِهِ [The devil blew into his nose]: said of him who aspires to that which is not for him.
3 نَفَخَ شِدْقَيْهِ [He inflated, or puffed out, the sides of his mouth; meaning] he was proud, or affected pride.
4 نَفَخَهُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَفْخٌ, It inflated him, or filled him.
5 نَفِخَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَفَخٌ, He had inflated testicles.
6 Also, He had his pasterns inflated with wind. When a beast thus affected walks, the humour subsides.
7 نَفَخَ نِهَا Pepedit; crepitum ventris emisit.
8 نَفَخَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind came suddenly.
9 نَفَخَتْ بِهِمُ الطَّرِيقُ The road cast [or brought] them suddenly [to a place]: from نفخت الريح.

def.2 نَفَخَتِ الضُّحَى, Verbal.Noun نَفْخٌ, The morning became advanced, and the sun high. You say also انتفخ النَّهَارُ The day became advanced, the sun being high, an hour before noon.
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