نفخ

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ن ف خ (n-f-ḵ), the verb from Proto-Semitic *napaḫ-. Compare also Arabic نَفَحَ (nafaḥa, to forspread).

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /na.fa.xa/

Verb

نَفَخَ (nafaḵa) I, non-past يَنْفُخُ‎ (yanfuḵu)

  1. to blow
  2. to blow up, to inflate
Conjugation

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /nafx/

Noun

نَفْخ (nafḵ) m

  1. verbal noun of نَفَخَ (nafaḵa) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), نفخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 310
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