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nafaḫ‑ نَفَخَ , u (nafḫ)
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1 to blow, puff; 2 to blow (tunes, on an instrument); 3a to breathe; 3b to breathe s.th. into s.o., inspire; 4a to blow up, inflate, fill with air; 4b to pump up, fill (a tire), fill with gas (balloon); 5 to inflate, puff up, elate, flush with success, fill with pride – WehrCowan1976.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘to blow’) Akk npḫ (u) ‘to ignite a fire’, Hbr np̄ḥ a (a), Syr npḥ a (u), Gz nfḫ – (ā).
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►nafaḫa fī ’l‑būq, vb. I, to blow the trumpet
►nafaḫa fī rūḥih, vb. I, to animate, inspirit s.o.
►nafaḫa fī ṣūratih, vb. I, to bring s.th. into being, give birth to s.th.
►nafaḫa fī zammāraẗ rūḥih, expr., to rouse s.o.’s temper
►nafaḫa ’l‑šamʕaẗ, vb. I, to blow out a candle
►nafaḫa fī šidqayhi, vb. I, to be puffed up, become inflated

 ►tanaffaḫa, vb. V, and ĭntafaḫa, vb. VIII, 1a to be blown up, inflated, filled with air; 1b 2 to swell.

►nafḫ, n., blowing, blowing up, inflation, pumping up, filling with air: vn. I.
►nafḫaẗ, n.f., 1 blow, puff; 2 breath; 3 gust; 4 distention, inflation, swelling; 5 conceit, overweeningness, haughtiness: nom.vic.
►nufāḫ, n., pulmonic emphysema (med.)
►naffāḫ, n., 1 flatulent; 2 grandiloquent: ints. formation.
►nuffāḫ, n., 1 vesicle; 2 swelling, inflation (med.).
►nuffāḫaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n.f., 1 blister, vesicle; 2 bladder; 3 air bladder, swimming bladder; 4 bubble
►minfaḫ, pl. manāfiḫᵘ, n., bellows: n.instr.
►minfāḫ, pl. manāfīḫᵘ, n., 1a bellows; 1b air pump, tire pump; 2 blowpipe: n.instr.
►tanaffuḫ, n., 1 inflatedness, inflation; 2a bumptiousness, bumptious behaviour; 2b pride: vn. V.
►ĭntifāḫ, n., 1 process of being inflated; 2 distention, inflation, swelling, protuberance; 3 flatulence, meteorism (med.): vn. VIII.
►nāfiḫ, 1 adj., a blowing; b flatulent; blower; 2 n., a player of a wood‑wind or brass‑wind instrument
►manfūḫ, adj., 1a blown up, puffed up, inflated; 1b swollen; 1c pumped up; 1d bloated; 1e paunchy, obese, fat; 2a conceited, self‑conceited, overweening, snobbish; 2b turgid, bombastic (style): PA I.
►muntafiḫ, adj., 1a blown up, puffed up, inflated; 1b swollen: PA VIII.
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