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نفّسهُ

Root: نفس

Form: 2

Full Definition

نفّسهُII , or بِهِ: see 4.

def.2 نفّس كُرْبَتَهُ, and نفّس عَنْهُ كُرْبَتَهُ, Verbal.Noun تَنْفِيسٌ and [quasi-Verbal.Noun] نَفَسٌ, He removed, or cleared away, his grief, or sorrow, or anxiety: and نفّس عَنْهُ signifies the same; and He made his circumstances ample and easy; and he eased him, or relieved him, syn. رَفَّهَ: and also, this last phrase, he granted him a delay: the objective compliment being omitted: and نَفِّسْنِى is used as meaning grant thou to me a delay: or, elliptically, نَفِّسْ كَرْبِى or غَمِّى [remove thou my grief, &c.].
2 [Hence] حَرْفُ تَنْفِيسٍ, applied to the prefix سَ [and its variants سَوْفَ &c.], meaning A particle of amplification; because changing the Present.T from the strait time which is the present, to the ample time, which is the future. (Mughnee, in art. س.)

def.3 نفّس القَوْسَ He cracked the bow: [see 5:] accord. to ISh, he put (حَطَّ) its string [upon the bow].
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