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آنِحٌ آنح act. part. n. of 1; A man breathing hard, or violently, &c.: and a man who, when he is asked for a thing, makes a reiterated hemming in his throat (يَتَنَحْنحُ), by reason of niggardliness; as also ↓ أَنُوحٌ , and ↓ أُنَّحٌ , (S, K,) and ↓ أَنَّاحٌ : (Lh:) or ↓ أَنُوحٌ signifies a man who hangs back from, or falls short of, doing generous deeds; as also أَزُوحٌ: (El-Ghanawee and S in art. ازح, and TA in the present art.:) and is also applied to a horse, meaning that runs, and makes a kind of groaning noise; إِِذَا جَرَى فَزَفَرَ: this is the right reading in the K: in some copies اذا جرى قَرْقَرَ [that makes a rumbling sound in his belly when he runs]: (TA:) the pl. of آنِحٌ is أُنَّحٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- آنِحَةٌ, applied to a female, signifies Short. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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