نَفَشَ
1.
, (S, A,) aorist
نَفُشَ
, (S,) verbal noun نَفْشٌ, (S, A, K,) He separated, or plucked asunder, or loosened, a thing, with his fingers, so that it became spread, or sparse, or dispersed; (A, K;) as also
نفّش, verbal noun تَنْفِيشٌ: (S, K:) or the latter has an intensive signification: and according to some, the former signifies he separated a thing not difficult to separate, such as cotton and wool: or he pulled
wool until its parts became separated, or plucked asunder, or loosened: (TA:) or he spread, or dispersed, a thing. (MF.) You say, نَفَشْتُ القُطْنَ and الصُّوفَ [I separated or plucked asunder, or loosened, with my fingers, &c., the cotton and the wool]. (S, A.) نَفْشٌ is likewise synonym with
نَدْفٌ [the separating and loosening cotton by means of a bow and a wooden mallet]. (TA.) You also say, نَفَشَ الرَّطْبَةَ, verbal noun as above, meaning, He separated what was collected together, or compacted, in the [kind of trefoil called] رطبة. (TA.) And, of a cock, (T, S, in article بول.) or of a حُبَارَى, (K, in that article,) when about to fight, (T, K. ibid.,) نَفَشَ بُرَايءِلَهُ [He ruffled the feathers around his neck]. (T, S, K, ibid.)
2.
It is also intrans synonym with
انتفش, q. v. (TA.)
3.
[And hence,] نَفَشَتِ الغَنَمُ, (S, A, K,) and الإِبِلُ, (S, Msb, K,) according to IDrd the former only, but according to others the latter also, and in like manner one says of all beasts, though mostly of غَنَم, (TA,) aorist (S, Msb, K) and
نَفِشَ
, (S, K,) verbal noun نَفْشٌ, (Msb, K,) or نُفُوشٌ, (S,) or both: (TA;) and نَفشت, aorist
نَفَشَ
; (IAar. Sgh, K;) The sheep or goats, and the camels, pastured by night without a pastor: (S, Msb, K:) or without the knowledge of a pastor (TA:) or dispersed themselves by night: (A:) or dispersed themselves and pastured by night without knowledge [of the pastor]: or the sheep or goats entered among seed-produce: (TA:) occurring in the Qur'an, 21:78: (S, TA:) the subst. is نَفَشٌ, signifying their dispersion of themselves and pasturing by night without a pastor. (Msb.)