Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَضَحَ, aor. ـِ {يَنْضِحُ}, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and ـَ, (Mṣb, MF,) inf. n. نَضْحٌ, (Ṣ,) He sprinkled a house, or chamber, [with water]: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or he sprinkled it lightly: (TA:) نَضْحٌ is like نَضْخٌ; and sometimes these two words agree, and sometimes they differ: (Lth:) some say that they both signify any sprinkling: (TA:) or the former signifies what is intentional; and the latter, what is unintentional. (IAạr.) [See نَضَخَ.]

نَضَحْتُ عَلَيْهِ المَآءَ, inf. n. نَضْحٌ, [I sprinkled water, or the water, upon him]. (Aṣ.)

نَضَحَ, aor. ـِ {يَنْضِحُ}, and ـَ, inf. n. نَضْحٌ, He moistened, or sprinkled, a garment, or piece of cloth. (Mṣb.)

أَصَابَهُ نَضْحٌ مِنْ كَذَا [A sprinkling of such a thing came upon him]. (TA.)

نَضَحَتْ بِيَوْلِهَا She (a camel) sprinkled her urine. (TA.)

نَضَحَ عَطَشَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَنْضِحُ}, inf. n. نَضْحٌ, (Ṣ,) ‡ It (water, TA,) moistened [or allayed] his thirst, (Ṣ, TA,) and allayed it: (Ḳ. TA:) took it away: or almost took it away: (TA;) also (Ḳ) or نَضَحَ الرِّىَ, (TA,) he satisfied his thirst with drink: (Ḳ:) or he drank less than what would satisfy his thirst. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

نَضَحَ المَآءُ المَالَ The water took away the thirst of the camels, &c.: or nearly did so. (T.)

نَضَحَ المَآءَ He (a camel) carried water from a river or canal or well to irrigate standing corn or the like. (Mṣb.)

نَضَحَ He moistened a skin, in order that it might not break.

نَضَحَ الجُلَّةَ, aor. ـَ {يَنْضَحُ}, inf. n. نَضْحٌ, He sprinkled the palm-leaf date-basket with water, in order that its dates might stick together: (L:) or he scattered forth its contents. (L, Ḳ.)

نَضَحَ (inf. n. نَصْحٌ, Ṣ,) He watered palm-trees, (Ḳ,) and standing corn, &c., (TA,) by means of a camel carrying the water. (Ḳ.)

سُقِى الزَّرْعُ نَضْحا The standing corn, &c. was watered by means of buckets, (دِلَآءَ and غُرُوب,) and camels carrying the water; not by means of a channel opened for that purpose. (TA.)

هٰذِهِ نَخْلُ تُنْضَحُ These are palm-trees that are watered [by the means above mentioned]. (Ṣ.)

فُلَانٌ يَسْقِى بِالنَّضْح [Such a one waters palm-trees, &c. by the means above mentioned]. (Ṣ.)

يَنْضِحُ عَلَى البَعِيرِ He drives the camel that carries the water for irrigation, watering palm-trees [&c.] (Ṣ)

نَضَحُوهُمْ بِالنَّبْلِ, (inf. n. نَضْحٌ, TA.) ‡ They shot at them [or sprinkled them] with arrows: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) they scattered arrows among them. like as water is sprinkled. (TA.) Moḥammad said to the archers at the battle of Ohod, اِنْضِحُوا عَنَّا الخَيْلَ ‡ Shoot ye at the horses and their riders with arrows [and so repel them from us]. (Ṣ,* TA.)

نَضَحَ فَرْجَهُ, aor. ـِ {يَنْضِحُ} and ـُ {يَنْضُحُ}; (TA;) andانتضح↓ andاستنضح↓ [both of which are thus used as intrans.]: (Ḳ;) He sprinkled some water upon his pudendum after the ablution called الوُضُوْء: (Ḳ:) as also اِنْتَفَضَ. (TA.)

نَضَحَ بِالبَوْلِ عَلَى فَخِذَيْهِ He made [a little sprinkling of] urine to fall upon his thighs. (Ḳ.) Hence the saying in a trad., النَّضْخُ مِنَ النَّضْحِ, meaning, that he upon whom falls a little sprinkling of urine, like the heads of needles, as explained by Z, must sprinkle the part with water, and is not required to wash it. (TA.)

نَضَحَتْنَا السَّمَآءُ The sky rained upon us. (L.)

نَضَحَ, [aor. ـَ {يَنْضَحُ},] He (a horse) sweated. (Mṣb.) نَضَحَ بِالعَرَقِ, inf. n. نَضْحٌ and نَضَحَانٌ, He (a man, and a horse,) broke out with sweat: and in like manner, the protuberance behind a camel's ear; and the arm-pit or the like. (L) [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. عدو, conj. 3.]

يَنْضَحُ طيبًا He diffuses the odour of perfume: lit., sweats it. (L, from a trad.)

نَضَحَ It (sweat) exuded, or came forth. (Mṣb.)

نَضَحَتِ القرْبَةُ. (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and الخَابِيَةُ, (Ṣ,) aor. ـَ {يَنْضَحُ}, inf. n. نَضْحٌ and تَنَّضَاحٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [the latter of an intensive form,] The water-skin, and the jar. (being thin, TA,) sweated, (ISk, Ṣ, Ḳ,) or exuded its water. (TA.)

نَضَحَ الجَبَلُ The mountain sweated water between its masses of rock. (TA)

نَضَح الشَّجَرُ, inf. n. نَضْحٌ, (TA,) ‡ The trees began to break out with leaves. (Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ.)

نَضَحَ الزَّرْعُ, andانضح↓, † The standing corn became thick in its body, (TA,) and began to have the farinaceous substance in its grains, yet moist, or succulent, or tender. (Ḳ.)

تَضَحَتِ العَيْنُ, (L, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَنْضِحُ}, inf. n. نَضْحٌ: (L.;) andانتضحت↓, (L, Ḳ,) andننضّحت↓; (Ḳ;) The eye overflowed with tears: (L, Ḳ:) the eye filled with tears and the overflowed without stopping. (L.)

نَضَحَ, aor. ـَ {يَنْضَحُ} It (a sea, or great river,) flowed. (TA, art. تبر.)

اِنْضَحُوا الرَّحِمَ بِبِلَالِهَا: see بِلَالٌ.

نَضَحَ عَنْ فُلَانٍ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَنْضِحُ}; (Ṣ;) andباضح↓ عَنْهُ, (Ḳ,) inf. n. مُنَاضَحَةُ and نِضَاحٌ; (TA;) ‡ He repelled from, and defended, such a one: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) as also مَضَحَ: (Shujáa:) and نَضحَ الرَّجُلَ he repelled from the man. (Kr.)

نَضَحَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ ‡ He defended himself with an argument. a pled. or an allegation. (Ṣ.)

see 1

انضح عِرْضَهُ † He aspersed his honour, or reputation: (Ḳ:) marred it; as also أَمْضَحَهُ: (Shujáa Es-Sulamee:) made people to carp at it. (Khaleefeh.)

see 1 and 8.

رَأَيْتَهُ يَتَنَضَّحُ مِمَّا قَرِفَ بِهِ ‡ I saw him deny, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and declare himself clear of, (Ṣ,) that of which he was accused, or suspected. (Ṣ, Ḳ.*)

تنضّح مِنْ أَمْرٍ ‡ He pretended to be clear, or quit, of the thing. (TA.)

انتضح عَلَيْهِمُ المَآءُ The water became sprinkled upon them. (Ṣ.)

انتضح البَوْلُ عَلَى الثَّوْبِ The urine became sprinkled upon the garment. (Mṣb.)

انتضح بِالنَّضُوحِ He sprinkled himself with the kind of perfume called نَضُوح. (L.) [Andتنضّح↓ is used in similar sense in art. غسل in the Ḳ.] See 1.

نَضْحٌ A rain between two rains; better than what is called طَلّ; (L;) i. q. نَضْحٌ, with respect to rain. (Sh.)

نَضْحَاتٌ [or نَضَحَاتٌ?] A slight, or scanty, scattered shower of rain. (L.)

Also نَاضِحٌ↓ Rain. (L.)

نَضْحٌ † Perfume that is thin, like water: pl. نُضُوحٌ and أَنْضِحَةٌ: [see also نَضُوحٌ:] what is thick, like خَلُوق and غَالِيَة, is called نَضْخٌ. (L.)

A mark left by water, or anything thin, such as vinegar and the like: differing from نَضْخٌ [q. v.]. (AA, in TA, art. نضخ.)

نَضَحٌ andنَضِيحٌ↓ ‡ A watering-trough or tank; or so called because it moistens [or allays] the thirst of camels: (IAạr, Ṣ:) or a small watering-trough or tank: (TA:) or the latter a watering-trough or tank that is near to the well, so as to be filled with the bucket; and it may be large: (Lth:) pl. of the former أَنْضَاحٌ; and of the latter نُضُحٌ. (Ṣ.)

نَضَحُ الوُضُوْءِ What is sprinkled in the performance of the ablution called الوضوء. (L.) [See نَضَحَ فَرْجَهُ.]

مَزَادَةٌ نَضُوحٌ A مزادة that sweats, or exudes its water. (TA.)

نَضُوحٌ ‡ A certain kind of perfume. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) [See also نَضْحٌ.]

قَوْسٌ نَضُوحٌ, andنُضَحِيَّةٌ↓, A bow that impels the arrow with force, or sends it far, and that scatters the arrows much; expl. by طَرُوحٌ نَضَّاحَةٌ↓ لِلنَّبْلِ. (AḤn, Ḳ.)

النَّضُوحُ One of the names of The bow. (TA.)

نَضِيحٌ Sweat. (Ṣ.)

See نَضَحٌ.

نَضَّاحٌ He who drives the camel that carries water from a well, &c., for irrigating land, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and waters palm-trees [&c.]. (Ṣ.)

See قَوْسٌ نَضُوحٌ.

نَاضِحٌ ‡ A camel (Ṣ) or an ass or a bull (TA) upon which water is drawn (يَسْتَقَى عَلَيْهِ) [from a well, &c.]: (Ṣ, TA:) a camel that carries water (يَحْمِلُ المَآءَ) from a river or canal or well to irrigate seed-produce; so called because it is a means of moistening [or allaying] thirst by the water which it carries: (Mṣb:) the female is called نَاضِحَةٌ (Ṣ, Mṣb) and سَانِيَةٌ [q. v.]: (Ṣ:) pl. نَوَاضِحُ. (Mṣb.)

Afterwards applied to Any camel: as in the following instance, occurring in a trad., أَطْعِمْهُ نَاضِحَكَ Give him thy camel to eat. (Mṣb.)

See نَضْحٌ.

مِنْضَحَةٌ (L, Ḳ) as also مِنْضَخَةٌ, (IAạr, L,) vulg. نَضَّاحَةٌ↓, (Az,) i. q. زَرَّاقَةٌ, (IAạr, L, [in some copies of the Ḳ زُرَّقة; in the CK زَرافَة]) i. e. An instrument made of copper or brass for shooting forth naphtha [into a besieged place: mentioned in several histories]. (L.)