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nafaja

jump, leap, boast

نَفَجَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

ن ف ج

Forms

Present
يَنْفُجُ
Verbal noun
نَفْج

In the library

وبلغ من نفجه مع ذلك ما خبّرني به إبراهيم بن هانيء قال: كنت عنده يوما، إذ مرّ به بعض الباعة، فصاح: «الخوخ الخوخ» .

The Book of Misers, page 163 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ نَفَجَيَنْفُجُ—
she هِيَ نَفَجَتتَنْفُجُ—
they two (m.) هُما نَفَجايَنْفُجانِ—
they two (f.) هُما نَفَجَتاتَنْفُجانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ نَفَجُوايَنْفُجُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ نَفَجْنَيَنْفُجْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ نَفَجْتَتَنْفُجُاُنْفُجْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ نَفَجْتِتَنْفُجِينَاُنْفُجِي
you two أَنْتُما نَفَجْتُماتَنْفُجانِاُنْفُجَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ نَفَجْتُمتَنْفُجُونَاُنْفُجُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ نَفَجْتُنَّتَنْفُجْنَاُنْفُجْنَ
I أَنا نَفَجْتُأَنْفُجُ—
we نَحْنُ نَفَجْنانَنْفُجُ—

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • نَفَجَ Form I sprang up
    , (S, K,) aor. , inf. n. نُفُوجٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انتفج; (TA;) It (a hare, S, K, or other animal, Msb) sprang up (S, K) from its hole; or leaped. (TA.) ― -b2- نَفَجَ; (TA;) and ↓ انفج, (S,) inf. n. إِنْفَاجٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انتفج; (TA;) He made a hare to spring up (S, &c.) from its hole; or to leap. (TA.) ― -b3- نَفَجَ, aor. and , inf. n. نُفَجٌ; and ↓ انتفج; It (a jerboa) ran: (M:) or slackened his run. (A.) ― -b4- نَفَجَ, and ↓ انتفج, and ↓ تنفّج, It (anything) rose; or became elevated, or exalted. (TA.) ― -b5- نَفَجَ, aor. , inf. n. نَفْجٌ, He made anything to rise; or to become elevated, or exalted. (TA.) ― -b6- نَفَجَتِ الفَرُّوجَةُ The chicken came forth from its egg. (S, K.) ― -b7- نَفَجَ, (aor. , inf. n. نَفْجٌ, S,) It (a woman's breast) heaved up her shift. (S, K.) ― -b8- نَفَجَتِ الرِّيحُ (tropical:) The wind came with force: (S, K:) or, suddenly. (TA.) ― -b9- نَفَجَ, inf. n. نَفْجٌ, He magnified, or made great, him, or it. (Msb, TA.) [And so,] ↓ انتفج It became great. (TA.) ― -b10- نَفَجَ, aor. , inf. n. نَفْجٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انتفج, (TA,) and ↓ تنفّج; (K;) He boasted of that which he did not possess, (Msb,) and which was not in him: (TA:) or, of more than he possessed. (K.)
  • أَنْفَجَ Form IV Open entry
    see 1, and 10.
  • تَنَفَّجَ Form V Open entry
    see 1, in two places.
  • إِنْتَفَجَا حَنْبَا البَعِيرِ Form VIII The sides of the camel became elevated
    The sides of the camel became elevated, (S, K,) [or bulging,] and great, naturally. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence the expression إِنْتِفَاجُ الأَهِلَّةِ (assumed tropical:) [The swelling out of the new moons], in a trad. respecting the signs [of the last day]. (TA.) ― -b3- See 1 throughout.
  • استنفج Form X He (a sportsman) drew forth
    (IAar, M) and ↓ انفج, (M,) He (a sportsman) drew forth a jerboa [&c. from its hole]. (M.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He drew forth, and caused to appear, the anger of a person. (K.)
  • نَفْجٌ A boasting of that which one does not possess, or the like
    and ↓ نَفَاجَةٌ (tropical:) [A boasting of that which one does not possess, or the like: see 1, and نَفَّاجٌ]. (A.) [See also نَفْخٌ.]
  • نُفْجُ الحَقِيبَةِ large in the buttocks
    A woman, (K,) and a man, (TA,) large in the buttocks: (K, TA:) or prominent therein. (TA in art. حقب.)
  • نَفْجَةٌ A single leap
    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.)
  • نَفَاجَةٌ Open entry
    : see نَفْجٌ and نَفَّاجٌ.
  • نَفِيجَةٌ A bow
    A bow (S, K) made of a piece of wood of the kind of tree called نَبْع; not known by Aboo-Sa'eed with ح [in the place of ج]. (S [so in the copies of that work which I am using, three in number: but in one copy, “ except with ح ”].)
  • نَفَّاجٌ proud
    (tropical:) A proud man; as also ↓ مُنْتَفِجٌ: (K:) a boastful and proud man: (ISk, S:) 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 also ↓ ذُو نَفْجٍ (and ↓ ذُو 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.]
  • نَافِجٌ Open entry
    : see نَافِجَةٌ.

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