نفخa sound root denoting swelling and rising/height. (root nfkh)

[An-nafkh (النفخ) is well known. You say nafakhtuhu (نفخته) [I blew into it], so it swelled, fa-ntafakha (فانتفخ)]. Al-minfākh (المنفاخ) is what a person blows with, into fire or otherwise. An-nafīkh (النفيخ) is the one charged with blowing on the fire; he [the poet] said: 'In the morning its color resembles a flickering flame ... from a blaze whose helper is the nafīkh (النفيخ)' — thus an-nafīkh (النفيخ) became like al-jalīs (الجليس) [companion] and ash-sharīb (الشريب) [drinking-companion] and the like. It is also said: huwa n-nafīkh (النفيخ), like al-jalīs and ash-sharīb, in lightened form, and the like. An-naffākh (النفاخ) is the swelling of a tumor from a disease that afflicts wherever it strikes. An-nafkha (النفخة) is the swelling of the belly from food or the like. Al-minfākh (المنفاخ) is the blacksmith's bellows. A youth is called nafikh (نفخ), and a young woman nafikh (نفخ), without the tā' marbūṭa, when the fullness of youth has filled them out. A man is anfakhān (أنفخان), and a woman with the tā' marbūṭa; a man is manfūkh (منفوخ), and a people are manfūkhūn (منفوخون), meaning they have grown fat with flabbiness. A horse is anfakh (أنفخ), referring to a swelling of the testicles from an-nafkh (النفخ), a disease that afflicts horses. An-naffākha (النفاخة) is a swollen organ in the belly of a fish, which is its pivot/handle, by which the fish, as is claimed, maintains its position in the water and moves about in it. An-naffākha (النفاخة) is also al-ḥajāh (الحجاة), a bubble that rises above the water. An-nafkhā' (النفخاء) of land is what is raised up; it is a fertile patch that grows a little vegetation/trees, and similar to it is an-nahdā' (النهداء), except that it is more level. An-naffākha (النفاخة) is also the fruit of al-ʿushar (العشر) [a desert plant], which is plentiful but has no substance inside except air.

Nafakha fīhi (نفخ فيه) [he blew into it], and nafakhahu (نفخه) [he blew it, without 'fī'] is also a dialectal usage. The poet said: "Were it not for Ibn Jaʿda, your Qahandiz [citadel] would not have been opened, nor Khurāsān, until the Trumpet (aṣ-Ṣūr) is blown." And the saying of al-Qutāmī: "Did separation not disgrace the army of Kisrā, and they blew into their cities and flew away?" He meant nafakhū (نفخوا) but lightened [the form]. Nafakha bihā (نفخ بها) means he broke wind (ḥabaqa, حبق). Al-minfākh (المنفاخ) is that which is blown into. Their saying mā bi-d-dāri nāfikhu ḍarmatin (ما بالدار نافخ ضرمة) [there is not in the house even one who could blow on a firebrand] means there is no one there at all. Intafakha sh-shay' (انتفخ الشيء) [the thing swelled], and sometimes they say intafakha n-nahār (انتفخ النهار), meaning it grew high. A man is dhū nafkh (ذو نفخ), and dhū nafj (ذو نفج) with the jīm, meaning a man of pride and arrogance. It is said: ajidu nafkhatan wa nafkhatan wa nufkhatan (أجد نفخة ونفخة ونفخة) [I feel a swelling], when his belly is swollen. It is said: a man is anfakh (أنفخ), among those afflicted with an-nafkh (النفخ), one who has a swelling in his testicles. An-nafkhā' (النفخاء) of land is like an-nabkhā' (النبخاء).

The nūn, fā', and khā' (نفخ) is a sound root indicating swelling and rising. From it: intafakha sh-shay' (انتفخ الشيء), intifākhan (انتفاخاً) [the thing swelled up]. It is said intafakha n-nahār (انتفخ النهار), meaning the day grew high/advanced. And nafkhat ar-rabīʿ (نفخة الربيع) is its [the season's] becoming lush with vegetation, because the earth swells and rises up in it. Al-manfūkh (المنفوخ) is a fat man. And an-nafkhā' (النفخاء) of land is like an-nabkhā' (النبخاء), which has already been discussed [elsewhere].

An-nafkh (النفخ) is the blowing of wind/air into a thing. God Most High said: "On the Day when the Trumpet is blown" (yawma yunfakhu fī ṣ-ṣūri) [Ṭā Hā 20:102], and "and the Trumpet is blown" (wa nufikha fī ṣ-ṣūri) [al-Kahf 18:99], "then it is blown into a second time" (thumma nufikha fīhi ukhrā) [az-Zumar 39:68]; this is similar to His saying: "so when the Trumpet is sounded" (fa-idhā nuqira fī n-nāqūri) [al-Muddaththir 74:8]. From it also is the blowing of the spirit (ar-rūḥ) in the first creation; He said: "and I breathed into him of My spirit" (wa nafakhtu fīhi min rūḥī) [al-Ḥijr 15:29]. One says intafakha baṭnuhu (انتفخ بطنه) [his belly swelled], and from this it is used metaphorically: intafakha n-nahār (انتفخ النهار), meaning it rose high; and nafkhat ar-rabīʿ (نفخة الربيع), when it became lush with vegetation; and a man is manfūkh (منفوخ), meaning fat.

An-nafkh (النفخ) is well known: nafakha fīhi fa-ntafakha (نفخ فيه فانتفخ) [he blew into it, so it swelled]. Ibn Sīdah [said]: nafakha bi-famihi yanfukhu nafkhan (نفخ بفمه ينفخ نفخا) means he expelled air from his mouth, occurring in resting, treating [an ailment], and the like. In a report: "and behold he was enraged, blowing (yanfukhu)". And nafakha n-nāra wa ghayrahā yanfukhuhā nafkhan wa nafīkhan (نفخ النار وغيرها ينفخها نفخاً ونفيخاً) [he blew on the fire, etc.]. An-nafīkh (النفيخ) is the one charged with blowing on the fire; the poet said: "In the morning its color resembles a flickering flame, from a blaze whose helper is the nafīkh (النفيخ)." He [Ibn Sīdah] said: the one who blows became [called] nafīkh (نفيخ), like al-jalīs (الجليس) and the like, because he continually attends to it with blowing. Al-minfākh (المنفاخ) is the blacksmith's bellows. Al-minfākh (المنفاخ) is that with which one blows into the fire or otherwise. [The saying] mā bi-d-dāri nāfikhu ḍarmatin (ما بالدار نافخ ضرمة) means there is no one in the house. In the ḥadīth of ʿAlī, may God be pleased with him: "Muʿāwiya wished that there remained of Banū Hāshim not even a nāfikhu ḍarmatin (نافخ ضرمة)", meaning not a single person, because the fire is blown upon by young and old, male and female alike. And the saying of Abū n-Najm: "When they [the mountains] butt against al-Akhshab, the one butted, I heard from the flint-stones a hissing sound because of it, they emit from it a blazing flame (lahaban manfūḥan)." He meant manfūkhan (منفوخاً) [with khā'], but substituted ḥā' in place of khā', because this poem rhymes in ḥā' and begins: "O she-camel, travel swiftly and far, to Sulaymān, that we may rest." In the ḥadīth: he forbade blowing into a drink; this is only for fear that something might spurt from one's saliva and fall into it, so that someone else drinking after him might be harmed by it. In the ḥadīth: "I saw as though two gold bracelets were placed in my hand, and it was revealed to me that I should blow them away (unfukhhumā)", meaning cast them and throw them away, just as you nafakha (نفخ) a thing when you push it from you — though if it were with the unpointed ḥā', it would be from nafaḥtu sh-shay' (نفحت الشيء), meaning I threw it; and nafaḥat ad-dābbah (نفحت الدابة) means the animal kicked with its leg. And a version of the ḥadīth of the oppressed [al-mustaḍʿafīn] has: "fa-nafakhat bihimu ṭ-ṭarīq" (فنفخت بهم الطريق), with the pointed khā', meaning it cast them away suddenly, from nafakhat ar-rīḥ (نفخت الريح) [the wind blew], meaning it came suddenly. In the ḥadīth of ʿĀ'isha: "nasal medicine (as-saʿūṭ) is a substitute for an-nafkh (النفخ)"; [because] when one of them complained of his throat, they would blow into it, so they made nasal medicine a substitute for that. A person blows (nafakha) into a reed-pipe (al-yarāʿ) or the like. An-nafkha (النفخة) is the Blowing on the Day of Resurrection. In the Revelation: "so when the Trumpet is blown" (fa-idhā nufikha fī ṣ-ṣūri). And in the Revelation: "then I blow into it, and it becomes a bird by God's leave" (fa-anfukhu fīhi fa-yakūnu ṭayran bi-idhni Llāhi). It is said: nafakha ṣ-ṣūra (نفخ الصور) and nafakha fīhi (نفخ فيه) [both are used] — so said al-Farrā' and others; and it is said nafakhahu (نفخه) is a dialectal variant of nafakha fīhi (نفخ فيه); the poet said: "Were it not for Ibn Jaʿda, your Qahandiz would not have been opened, nor Khurāsān, until the Trumpet is blown." And the saying of al-Qutāmī: "Did separation not disgrace the army of Kisrā, and they blew into their cities and flew away?" He meant nafakhū (نفخوا), but lightened [the form]. Nafakha bihā (نفخ بها) means he broke wind (ḍaraṭa, ضرط). Abū Ḥanīfa said: an-nafkha (النفخة) is a light, slight smell, and an-nafkha (النفخة) [in another vocalization] is an abundant/strong smell. Ibn Sīdah said: "I have not seen anyone... [entry continues]"