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نسم

5 تَنَسَّمَ شَيْأً ذ He sought, or endeavoured to get. or attain, a thing, with labour and perseverance: i. q. تَطَلَّبَهُ. (IbrD.) ― -b2- تَنَسَّمَ الخَيَرَ He sought, searched, or inquired, for, or after, the news. or tidings; (MA, KL;) [as though endeavouring to scent it;] so that he elicited it. (TA.) نسم من الطريق ذ , denoting nearness and shortness of the way. see نبق and مُسْتَعْجِلَةٌ. نَسَمٌ ذ : see نَسِيمٌ. نَسَمَةٌ ذ A soul; syn. نَفْسٌ, with sukoon: and نَسَمٌ souls; syn. نُفُوسٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- A man. (K.) نَسِيمٌ ذ A gentle wind; a gentle gale: a breeze. ― -b2- The commencement of any wind before it becomes strong: (AHn, M:) or a pleasant wind: (S:) or the breath of the wind: (Msb:) or the breath of the wind when weak; as also ↓ نَسَمٌ : or a wind from which comes a weak breath: pl. of both أَنْسَامٌ. (M.) ― -b3- بَارِدُ النَّسِيمِ (tropical:) One who chills people: see ثَقِيلٌ. ― -b4- نَسِيمٌ Odour, scent, sweet or disagreeable: see رَائِحَةٌ. نَيْسَمٌ ذ i. q. نَيْسَبٌ. مَنْسِمٌ ذ The sole (بَاطِن) of the خُفّ: or, to a camel, the same as the سُنْبُك to the horse; (Msb;) [i. e., the toe, or nail, or edge of the fore part of the foot, of a camel: see ظُفُرٌ:] the extremity of the خُفّ of the camel and ostrich and elephant, and of the solid hoof: or each of the two nails (ظُفْراَنِ) of the camel, that are upon [each of] his fore-feet: or it is, to a she-camel, like the ظُفْر to a man: (M:) or the خُفّ of the camel, (S, K,) and of the ostrich. (As, S.) ― -b2- [Also, (assumed tropical:) The toe of a human being: see a verse cited voce جَذَا, art. جذو.]

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