Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَفَجَ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَنْفُجُ}, inf. n. نُفُوجٌ; (Mṣb;) andانتفج↓; (TA;) It (a hare, Ṣ, Ḳ, or other animal, Mṣb) sprang up (Ṣ, Ḳ) from its hole; or leaped. (TA.)

نَفَجَ; (TA;) andانفج↓, (Ṣ,) inf. n. إِنْفَاجٌ; (Mṣb;) andانتفج↓; (TA;) He made a hare to spring up (Ṣ, &c.) from its hole; or to leap. (TA.)

نَفَجَ, aor. ـِ {يَنْفِجُ} and ـُ {يَنْفُجُ}, inf. n. نُفَجٌ; andانتفج↓; It (a jerboa) ran: (M:) or slackened his run. (A.)

نَفَجَ, andانتفج↓, andتنفّج↓, It (anything) rose; or became elevated, or exalted. (TA.)

نَفَجَ, aor. ـُ {يَنْفُجُ}, inf. n. نَفْجٌ, He made anything to rise; or to become elevated, or exalted. (TA.)

نَفَجَتِ الفَرُّوجَةُ The chicken came forth from its egg. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

نَفَجَ, (aor. ـُ {يَنْفُجُ}, inf. n. نَفْجٌ, Ṣ,) It (a woman's breast) heaved up her shift. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

نَفَجَتِ الرِّيحُ ‡ The wind came with force: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or, suddenly. (TA.)

نَفَجَ, inf. n. نَفْجٌ, He magnified, or made great, him, or it. (Mṣb, TA.) [And so,] انتفج↓ It became great. (TA.)

نَفَجَ, aor. ـُ {يَنْفُجُ}, inf. n. نَفْجٌ; (Mṣb;) andانتفج↓, (TA,) andتنفّج↓; (Ḳ;) He boasted of that which he did not possess, (Mṣb,) and which was not in him: (TA:) or, of more than he possessed. (Ḳ.)

إِنْتَفَجَا حَنْبَا البَعِيرِ The sides of the camel became elevated, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [or bulging,] and great, naturally. (TA.)

Hence the expression إِنْتِفَاجُ الأَهِلَّةِ † [The swelling out of the new moons], in a trad. respecting the signs [of the last day]. (TA.)

See 1 throughout.

استنفج (IAạr, M) andانفج↓, (M,) He (a sportsman) drew forth a jerboa [&c. from its hole]. (M.)

Hence, (TA,) † He drew forth, and caused to appear, the anger of a person. (Ḳ.)

نَفْجٌ andنَفَاجَةٌ↓ ‡ [A boasting of that which one does not possess, or the like: see 1, and نَفَّاجٌ]. (A.) [See also نَفْخٌ.]

نُفْجُ الحَقِيبَةِ A woman, (Ḳ,) and a man, (TA,) large in the buttocks: (Ḳ, TA:) or prominent therein. (TA in art. حقب.)

نَفْجَةٌ A single leap of a hare from the place where it has been lying. In a trad., a sedition, or disturbance, is likened to this in regard of the shortness of its duration. (TA.)

نَفِيجَةٌ A bow (Ṣ, Ḳ) made of a piece of wood of the kind of tree called نَبْع; not known by Aboo-Saʼeed with ح [in the place of ج]. (Ṣ [so in the copies of that work which I am using, three in number: but in one copy, “except with ح”].)

نَفَّاجٌ ‡ A proud man; as alsoمُنْتَفِجٌ↓: (Ḳ:) a boastful and proud man: (ISk, Ṣ:) a man who praises himself for that which is not in him: one who says that which he does not, and who boasts of that which does not belong to him and which is not in him; as alsoذُو نَفْجٍ↓ (andذُو نَفَاجَةٍ↓, A): or one who boasts of that which he does not possess: and said to be not of high repute. (TA.) [See also نَفَّاشٌ.]

نَافِجَةٌ The commencement of anything, (so in two copies of the Ṣ, and so in the Mṣb,) or of any wind, (so in one copy of the Ṣ,) that begins with vehemence, or violence: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) or a wind that begins with vehemence: (Ḳ:) or, that comes with vehemence: (A:) Aṣ thinks it to be attended by cold: AḤn says, that sometimes the north wind rises upon people when they have been sleeping, and almost destroys them with cold at the close of the night, when the former part of the night has been warm: (TA:) or a wind that rises upon one suddenly and vehemently, when he is not aware: (Sh:) pl. نَوَافِجُ. (A.)

نَافِجَةٌ ‡ A cloud abounding with rain: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) so called from the same word as signifying “a wind that comes with vehemence:” (TA:) thus called by the name of the thing which is its cause. (Ṣ.)

نَافِجَةٌ The hinder part of a rib: (Ṣ:) or, of the ribs: (Ḳ:) as alsoنَافِجٌ↓: (TA:) pl. نَوَافِجُ. (Ṣ.)

نَافِجَةٌ † Camels which a man inherits, and whereby his camels are increased in number. (TA.)

نَافِجَةٌ ‡ A daughter: so called because she in creases the property of her father by her dowry: (Ḳ:) or, that increases the property of her father: for he takes her dowry (consisting of camels, TA) and adds it to his property, (or camels, TA,) so that the amount becomes raised. (Ṣ.) The Arabs used to say, in the time of paganism, when a daughter was born to one of them, هَنِيْئا لَكَ النَّافِجَةُ May she who is to increase thy property by her dowry be productive of enjoyment to thee! (Ṣ.)

نَافِجَةٌ A bag, follicle, or vesicle, of musk: (Ḳ:) pl. نَوَافِجُ: (Ṣ:) an arabicized word, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) from [the Persian] نَافَهْ; and therefore some say that it is properly written نَافَجَةٌ: or, accord. to the Mṣb, it is Arabic, and a bag of musk is so called because of its high value, from نَفَجَهُ “he magnified him, or it:” but this requires consideration. (TA.) See فَأْرَةُ المِسْكِ, voce فَأْرٌ.

أنْفَجَانِىٌّ One who exaggerates, or exceeds the due bounds, in speech; (Ḳ;) and who boasts of that which he does not possess. (TA.)

مَنَافِجُ Pieces of stuff with which women make their buttocks to appear large; syn عُظَّامَاتٌ. (Ḳ.)

مُنْتَفِجُ الجَنْبَيْنِ A man having elevated, [or bulging,] sides. (A.)

مُنْتَفِجٌ A camel having prominent flanks. (TA.) See نَفَّاجٌ.