ن ف ج

See also: ن ف ح, ن ف خ, نفج, نفح, and نفخ

Arabic

Root

ن ف ج • (n-f-j)

1. related to inflating

Derived terms

• Form I: نَفَجَ (nafaja, “to jump up, to hatch, to blow forth violently, to intumesce; to boast, to bloviate, to windbag”)
  • Verbal noun: نَفَج (nafaj), نَفْج (nafj), نَفَجَان (nafajān), نُفُوج (nufūj)
  • Active participle: نَافِج (nāfij)
  • Passive participle: مَنْفُوج (manfūj)
• Form I: نَفَجَ (nafaja, “to raise, to increase, to inflate, to elevate”)
  • Active participle: نَافِج (nāfij)
  • Passive participle: مَنْفُوج (manfūj)
• Form IV: أَنْفَجَ (ʔanfaja, “to cause to jump out”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْفَاج (ʔinfāj)
  • Active participle: مُنْفِج (munfij, “arrogant, boastful”)
  • Passive participle: مُنْفَج (munfaj)
• Form V: تَنَفَّجَ (tanaffaja, “to be inflated; to boast, to bloviate, to windbag”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَفُّج (tanaffuj)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَفِّج (mutanaffij)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَفَجَ (intafaja, “to intumesce”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِفَاج (intifāj)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَفِج (muntafij)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْفَجَ (istanfaja, “to excite the anger of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْفَاج (istinfāj)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْفِج (mustanfij)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْفَج (mustanfaj)

• نُفْجَة (nufja, “gusset, a wedge-like piece of cloth inserted into apparel so it is larger; bag, pouch, sac”)
• نَفِيج (nafīj, “having difficulty in moving due to largeness”)
• نَفَّاج (naffāj, “arrogant”)
• نِفَاجَة (nifāja), نُفَّاجَة (nuffāja), نَفِيجَة (nafīja, “gusset”)
• نَافِجَة (nāfija, “violence, fury; the vehement beginning of anything; a violently blowing wind; a supernumerary rib; daughter (due to the bridewealth the father receives)”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ف ج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 309
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ف ج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1304–1305
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ف ج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 1135
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ن ف ج”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[4] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 1045
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ف ج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1152