ن • ث • ت

A gum that is flabby and bleeding: and in like manner شَفَةٌ, a lip: (TA:) [as also ثَنِتَةٌ].

, aor. نَثَتَ , [inf. n. نَثَتٌ,] It (flesh-meat) became changed, or altered, and stank: formed by transposition from ثَنِتَ: (K:) and so a wound. (TA.)