نسم
5 تَنَسَّمَ شَيْأً 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 , denoting nearness and shortness of the way. see نبق and مُسْتَعْجِلَةٌ.
نَسَمٌ
: see نَسِيمٌ.
نَسَمَةٌ A soul;
syn. نَفْسٌ, with sukoon: and نَسَمٌ souls;
syn. نُفُوسٌ. (
Msb.)
b2: A man. (
K.) نَسِيمٌ 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 i. q.
نَيْسَبٌ.
مَنْسِمٌ 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.]
نسو and نسى 1 see 6.
6 تَنَاسَاهُ He pretended that he had forgotten it: (
S,
KL, *
TA:) and (
TA) he forgot it; (
MA,
KL, *
TA;) like ↓ نَسِيَهُ: (
TA:) [or] he constrained himself to dismiss it from his mind. (
MA.)
b2: تُنُوسِىَ It (a word or the like) was forgotten by degrees. (Occurring often in the larger Lexicons.) النَّسَا [vulg. عِرْقُ النَّسَا,
app. The sciatic vein;] the portion, in the thigh, of the vein (عِرْق) which, in the back, is called the وَتِين, and which extends to the shank, where it is called the صَافِن: (
IAth,
TA,
voce أَبْهَرُ:) or the صاَفِن and عرق النسا are two branches of one عِرْق [or vein]: (Ibn-Seenà, vol. i. book iii. p. 608: [where the opening of each of these to let blood is mentioned:]) [in a solid-hoofed animal,] النسا is a vein (عِرْق) proceeding from the hip, or haunch, lying within each thigh, then passing by the hock, so as to reach the hoof: when the breast is fat, each of its thighs becomes cleft by two large portions of flesh, and the نسا runs between them, and is apparent. (
S.) [In the present day it seems to be applied by some to the sciatic nerve: and عِرْقُ النَّسَا, as also النَسَا alone, often signifies sciatica, or hip-gout: see نِقْرِسٌ and also شَنِجٌ.
مُنْسِيهَا for مَنْسِئِهَا: see a verse cited
voce عُقْبَةٌ.
