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دَنَفٌ دنف A constant, or chronic, disease; (S, M, K;) such as infects, or pervades, the person or the inside: or, as some say, any disease, whatever it be. (M.) -A2- Also, (S, M, K,) and ↓ دَنِفٌ , (S, M, Msb, K,) the latter held by Sb to be a possessive epithet, as he disallowed the verb دَنِفَ, (M,) A man having a constant, or chronic, disease; (S, M, Msb, K;) such as infects, or pervades, his person or his inside: or, accord. to some, having any disease: or emaciated by disease so as to be at the point of death: and ↓ مُدْنَفٌ and ↓ مُدْنِفٌ signify the same: (M:) or these two signify rendered heavy by disease [so as to be near to death, or at the point of death: see 1]: (S, Mgh, K:) [and Freytag adds ↓ دَانِفٌ , explained as meaning “ interitui obnoxius, ” as from the Ham; in which I only find (p. 624) authority for دَنِفٌ, signifying being at the point of death or destruction:] دَنَفٌ is used alike as masc. (Fr, T, S, M, K) and fem. (S, M, K) and sing. (Fr, T, S, M, K) and dual (S, M) and pl., (Fr, T, S, M, K,) as though it were an inf. n. used as an epithet: (M:) but if you say ↓ دَنِفٌ , you vary it for the fem. and dual and pl., (T, * S, M, K,) saying اِمْرَأَةٌ دَنِفَةٌ, (S, M,) &c., (S,) i. e., saying also رَجُلَانِ دَنِفَانِ, (TA,) and قَوْمٌ أَدْنَافٌ, (M,) or رِجَالٌ أَدْنَافٌ: (TA:) and sometimes دَنَفٌ has a dual form and a pl.; (K;) [i. e.] one may say أَخَوَاكَ دَنَفَانِ and إِِخْوَتُكَ أَدْنَافُ. (Fr, T.) ― -b2- Applied to the sun, it means (tropical:) Near to setting, (M, TA,) and (TA) becoming yellow. (T, TA.) So in the saying (of El-'Ajjáj, T, TA), “ وَالشَّمْسُ قَدْ كَادَتْ تَكُونُ دَنَفَا
” (tropical:) [And the sun had almost become near to setting, and to turning yellow]. (T, M, TA.) [See Q. 2 in art. زحلف.]

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