أَنْفٌ
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a word of well-known meaning; (Lth, T, K;) The nose; synonym مَعْطِسٌ; (Msb;) the aggregate composed of the two nostrils and the septum and the [bone called] قَصَبَة, which is the hard part of the انف; (MF;) i. q.
مَنْخِرٌ [which is evidently an explanation by a synecdoche, as this word properly signifies nostril]: (M:) it pertains to man and to others: (S:)
أُنْفٌ is a dialect var. of the same; (MF, TA;) and so is
إِنْفٌ, which is a form used by the vulgar peculiarly: (TA:) the plural [of pauc.] is انُفٌ and انَافٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and [of mult.] أُنُوفٌ. (T, S, M, Msb, K.) The dual is applied to The two nostrils; as in the saying of Muzáhim El-'Okeylee, يَسُوفُ بِأَنْفِيْهِ
النِّقَاعَ [He scents with his two nostrils the dust]. (TA.) You say also, هُوَ يَتَتَبَّعُ أَنْفَهُ (tropical:) He scents, or sniffs, the odour, and follows it. (T, [in which, however, I find يَتْبَعُ in the place of يتتبّع] O, L, K, TA.) And, of a she-camel, تَرْأَمُ بِأَنْفِهِا (assumed tropical:) [She makes a show of affection with her nose, by smelling her young one; not having true love]. (S, M, K, voce مُذَايءِرٌ; &c.: see also مُعَارِضٌ.) And مَاتَ حَتْفَ أَنْفِهِ (S, K, &c., in article حتف,) and حتف أَنْفِيْهِ, (K ibid.,) (assumed tropical:) He died [a natural death,] on his bed, (K,) without being slain or beaten (S, K) or drowned or burned. (K. [See article حتف]) And حَمِىَ أَنْفُهُ (tropical:) He became vehemently angry, or enraged; as also وَرِمَ أَنْفُهُ. (IAth. [See also article حمي]) And رَجُلٌ حَمِىُّ
الأَنْفِ (tropical:) A disdainful, or scornful, man; who disdains, or scorns, being injured. (T, K, TA. [See, again, article حمي.]) And سَمِىُّ الأَنْفِ (assumed tropical:) [lit. Highnosed, signifies the same;] i. q.
أَنْفَانُ. (T, K.) And أَنْفٌ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَاسْتٌ فِى المَاءِ (assumed tropical:) [A nose in the sky and a rump in the water]; a prov., applied to him who magnifies himself in words and is little in actions. (Har p. 641.) And حَعَلَ
أَنْفَهُ فِى قَفَاهُ (tropical:) [lit. He put his nose in the back of his neck]; meaning he turned away from the truth, or what was right, and betook himself to what was false, or vain: (K, TA:) expressing the utmost degree of turning away, or turning the head, from a thing. (TA.) And أَضَاعَ مَطْلَبَ
أَنْفِهِ, (M, K,) and مُوْضِعَ أَنْفِهِ, (M,) (assumed tropical:) [He neglected, or left unprotected,] the womb from which he had come forth: (Th, M:) or the
فَرْج
of his mother. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) And هُوَ الفَحْلُ لَا يُقْرَعُ
أَنْفُهُ, and لَا يُقْدَعُ, He is the speaker, or orator, who is not to be rebutted. (TA.) الأَسدِ أَنْفُ (assumed tropical:) [The nose of the lion] is the asterism called
النَّثْرَةُ, q. v. (Kzw in his Description of the Mansions of the Moon.)
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(assumed tropical:) [A prominent part of anything, as being likened to a nose;] the extremity of anything. (M.) [Thus,] أَنْفُ جَبَلٍ (tropical:) A prominence, or projecting part, of a mountain. (T, S, M, Msb, TA.) أَنْفُ النَّابِ, (S, M. K, TA,) in [some of] the copies of the K erroneously, البَابِ, (TA,) (tropical:) The extremity, (S, M, K, TA,) or edge, (M, TA,) of the canine tooth, or tush, when it comes forth. (S, M, K, TA.) أَنْفُ
خُفِّ البَعِيرِ (assumed tropical:) The extremity of the
مَنْسِم [i. e. toe, or each of the two nails of the foot,] of the camel. (T, K.) أَنْفُ اللِّحْيَةِ (tropical:) The fore part, (M, TA,) or side, (K,) of the beard. (M, K, TA.) أَنْفُ
النَّعْلِ (assumed tropical:) The toe, or foremost extremity, of the sandal [also called its أَسَلَة and its ذُنَابَة]. (M.) أَنْفَا القَوْسِ (assumed tropical:) The two extremities which are in the inner sides of the two curved ends of the bow. (M.)
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(assumed tropical:) The first, or first part, of anything; (S, M, K;) relating also to times; (M;) as also
مُسْتَأْنَفٌ (M, TA.) Thus, أَنْفُ المَرْعَى (assumed tropical:) The first of the herbage, or pasture. (S, * M.) أَنْفُ
المَطَرِ (assumed tropical:) The first vegetation produced by the rain. (T, K.) جَاءَ فِى أَنْفِ الخَيْلِ (tropical:) [He came among the first of the horses, or horsemen]. (TA.) سَارَ
فِى أَنْفِ النَّهَارِ (tropical:) [He journeyed in the first part of the day]. (TA.) هٰذَا أَنْفُ عَمَلِ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) This is the first of the things which such a one has begun to do. (T, TA.) أَنْفُ الشَّدِّ, (T, S, M,) and العَدْوِ, (M,) (assumed tropical:) The first of the run, or running: (T:) the most vehement thereof. (T, S, M, K. *) أَنْفُ البَرْدِ (assumed tropical:) The first of the cold: (T:) the most vehement thereof; (T, S, M;) so says Yaákoob. (S.)
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