أنف

أَنَفَهُ

To strike, hit, or hurt someone's nose.

A transitive Form I verb.

• Lane · entry 7345

أَنَفَهُ

Of water, to reach someone's nose.

Used of a person descending into a river or other body of water.

• Lane · entry 7345

أَنَفَتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels, to tread or feed upon the first, previously ungrazed herbage.

A pasture-related use referring to vegetation not previously pastured upon.

• Lane · entry 7345

أَنِفَ

Of a camel, to suffer pain or a complaint in the nose; in a related usage, of flies settling on camels' noses, to cause the camels to seek places they had not previously sought.

The nasal-pain use is associated with a nose-ring or nose-rein; the second usage is attributed dialectally.

• Lane · entry 7345

أَنِفَ

To disdain, scorn, reject, shun, or loathe something; to dislike it with proud refusal or disgust.

Used with مِنْهُ for disdainful refusal or avoidance, and transitively of disliked things, food, pasture, sayings, regions, or a mate.

• Lane · entry 7345

أَنَّفَ

To sharpen or point the extremity of something; also to make a thong or strap even and regular.

Applied especially to spearheads, arrowheads, blades, and similar pointed objects.

• Lane · entry 7346

أَنَّفَ

To seek or use the first of the pasture, or to pasture animals upon it, proceeding after it repeatedly or gradually.

A derived pastoral use concerning herbage not previously grazed upon.

• Lane · entry 7346

آنَفَهُ

To cause someone or an animal to suffer pain or a complaint in the nose.

A causative Form IV use.

• Lane · entry 7347

آنَفَهُ

To cause someone to feel disdain, scorn, indignation, anger, dislike, hatred, or disgust.

A causative Form IV emotional use.

• Lane · entry 7347

آنَفَهُ

To hasten an affair.

A tropical Form IV use attributed to a specific authority.

• Lane · entry 7347

تَأَنَّفَ

To desire one thing after another with eager longing.

Applied to a pregnant woman desiring successive things from her husband.

• Lane · entry 7348

تَأَنَّفَ

To seek the company of brethren who shun or disdain social intercourse.

A derived Form V social-relational use.

• Lane · entry 7348

اِسْتَأْنَفَ

To take the first part of something; to begin or commence it, and hence to do or provide something in anticipation.

Used of a thing or affair; an associated expression describes a woman married or bedded for the first time.

• Lane · entry 7350

أَنْفٌ

A nostril, by synecdoche from the nose as a whole.

A classical anatomical specialization of the ordinary noun.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

In a nose-related expression, to scent or sniff an odor and follow it; of a she-camel, to show affection by smelling her young one.

Conventional verbal and idiomatic uses based on the nose's function of smelling.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

In idioms, the nose represents natural death, anger, disdainful pride, turning away from truth, neglected maternal lineage, or an unanswerable speaker; the “nose of the lion” is also the name of an asterism.

These are fixed figurative or technical expressions rather than ordinary anatomical references.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

The projecting, foremost, or terminal part of something.

Applied to such things as a mountain, canine tooth, camel's foot, beard, sandal, or bow.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

The first or foremost part of a thing or period; sometimes its most vigorous beginning.

Applied to pasture, vegetation, the day, running, cold, and the beginning of an undertaking.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

A lord or chief; the foremost person of a people.

A figurative social use.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

A piece broken off a cake of bread.

A specialized nominal use.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنْفٌ

A hard, open, sun-exposed part of ground or land.

A specialized topographical use.

• Lane · entry 7351

أَنِفٌ

A camel suffering nasal pain from a nose-ring or nose-rein; by extension, submissive and tractable, requiring little chastisement.

The figurative sense derives from the camel's being readily led or controlled.

• Lane · entry 7354

أَنِفٌ

Disdainful, scornful, indignant, or proudly unwilling to comply.

An adjectival description of a person or character.

• Lane · entry 7354

أُنُفٌ

New, unused, untouched, or not previously drawn upon.

Applied to a meadow or herbage not pastured upon, a cup or wine not previously drunk, a full watering-place, fresh land, or a long and undiminished coat of mail.

• Lane · entry 7355

أُنُفٌ

Newly brought to pass at the outset, without having been previously decreed.

A specialized expression for an event regarded as newly originated.

• Lane · entry 7356

أُنُفٌ

Fresh or notably good in manner of walking.

Applied to a gait as a novel or pleasing manner of movement.

• Lane · entry 7356

أُنُفٌ

The immediately forthcoming or just-beginning time.

In مِنْ ذِي أُنُفٍ and related expressions, it refers to the nearest future, contrasting with آنِفًا for the nearest past.

• Lane · entry 7356

أَنْفَةُ الصَّلَاةِ

The beginning or commencement of prayer, specifically its opening utterance of Allāhu akbar.

A conventional religious expression.

• Lane · entry 7357

أَنَفَةٌ

Disdain, scorn, proud refusal, indignation, or anger.

A noun corresponding to the emotional use of أَنِفَ.

• Lane · entry 7358

أَنُوفٌ

A very disdainful, scornful, indignant, or proudly noncompliant man.

An intensive adjectival use; the plural is also reported.

• Lane · entry 7361

أَنُوفٌ

Of a woman, pleasant-smelling at the nose; alternatively, one who shuns or dislikes what has no good in it.

Two classical adjectival applications are reported for the feminine referent.

• Lane · entry 7361

أَنِيفٌ

Producing vegetation early or quickly.

Applied to a mountain or land that produces vegetation before other regions or rapidly.

• Lane · entry 7362

أَنِيفٌ

Soft, when applied to iron.

A specialized material description.

• Lane · entry 7362

أُنَافِيٌّ

Having a large nose.

Applied to a man.

• Lane · entry 7363

آنَفُ

More or most disdainful, scornful, or indignant.

A comparative or superlative adjectival form.

• Lane · entry 7364

آنَفُ

The fastest or earliest in producing vegetation.

Applied comparatively to a country or region.

• Lane · entry 7364

آنِفَةٌ

The first part or early period of a boy's life.

A specialized temporal noun.

• Lane · entry 7366

مُؤَنَّفٌ

Sharpened or pointed at its extremity; also made even and regular.

Applied to a spearhead, arrowhead, blade, or evenly cut thong or strap.

• Lane · entry 7369

مُؤَنَّفٌ

Pursuing the first or untouched herbage repeatedly, gradually, or step by step.

Applied to camels, sheep, or goats in a pastoral context.

• Lane · entry 7369

مُؤَنَّفٌ

Just married or bedded for the first time.

Applied to a woman in a specialized derived-adjectival expression.

• Lane · entry 7369

مَأْنُوفٌ

A camel urged onward by the rein attached to its nose.

A passive participial description of a camel controlled through its nose.

• Lane · entry 7370

مِئْنَافٌ

A man who begins using pasturing and resting places, or pastures his animals upon the first herbage.

A specialized occupational or habitual description.

• Lane · entry 7371

مِئْنَافٌ

A man journeying in the beginning or first part of the day.

The corrected classical interpretation concerns the day rather than the night.

• Lane · entry 7371

مُؤْتَنَفٌ

A place from which nothing has yet been eaten or taken; unused or not previously drawn upon.

Especially applied to a place of pasture.

• Lane · entry 7372

مُؤْتَنَفٌ

In the prime of youth, with no trace of agedness apparent.

Applied to a girl in a specialized descriptive expression.

• Lane · entry 7372

أَنْفِيَّةٌ

Snuff, for the nose.

A postclassical nasal preparation or substance.

• Lane · entry 7360