nadf

combing, carding

نَدْف

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْل

Root

ن د ف

In the library

قال ابن الأعرابي: قال الكلابيّ: هو يندف الطّعام إذا أكله بيده، ويلقم الحسوّ، واللّقم بالشّفة، والنّدف: الأكل باليد.

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 2 entries

نَدَفَ Form I He separated and loosened

[He separated and loosened cotton by means of a bow and a kind of wooden mallet, by striking the string of the bow with the mallet: see حَلَجَ; and حَرَنَ] he beat cotton with the ↓ مِنْدَف, (S, Msb, * K,) also called ↓ مِنْدَفَة, i. e., his wooden implement with which he strikes the bowstring, that it [the cotton] might become fine. (K.)
مِنْدَفٌ Open entry

and مِنْدَفَةٌ: see 1; and see مِحْرَنٌ and مِنْبَضٌ.

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