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8 انتفض ذ It (a thing, Mgh, Msb, or a garment, or piece of cloth, S, A, K, and a tree, S, A) shook, or became shaken, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) so that what was upon it, of dust &c., fell off, (Mgh,) or so that the dust and the like became removed from it. (Msb.) Hence the saying in a trad., يَنْتَفِضُ بِهِ الصِّرَاطُ, i. e. [The bridge extending over hell will shake with him so that he will fall from it: or] will shake him, or shake him violently, or [app. a mistake for and] make him to fall. (Mgh.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He trembled, quaked, or shivered: said of a man, and of a horse. (A, TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) It (a grapevine) became beautiful and bright in its leaves: (K:) [as though its dust became shaken off.] -A2- It is also used transitively: see 1, latter half: and see 10, in three places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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