טָנַף (b. h.; cmp. טנן) to be soiled.
Pi. - טִינֵּף to soil with excrements, secretions &c.; to secrete (blood or mucus from the womb). Pesik. Par., p. 40ᵇ שטי׳ בפלטין וכ׳ that made a nuisance in the palace &c. Bekh. 20ᵃ, a. e. מְטַנֶּפֶת an animal secreting from the vagina (an evidence of birth or abortion). B. Kam. 3ᵃ טִינְּפָה פירות the animal soiled fruits (by rolling in them). Tosef. Joma V (IV), 5 כדי שלא יְטַנְּפוּ וכ׳ that his feet may not soil his garments; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְטוּנָּף, f. מְטוּנֶּפֶת; pl. מְטוּנָּפִין, מְטוּנָּפוֹת soiled, filthy, defiled, polluted. Y. Snh. X, 27ᵈ top. Cant. R. to II, 8; a. fr.
Nithpa. - נִיטַּנֵּף, , Nif. נִטְנַף to be soiled, defiled. Y. Yoma VIII, 44ᵈ נִיטַּנְּפוּ רגליו (or נִיטְנְפוּ) if his feet became muddy.—*Y. Ber. I, 3ᶜ bot. ראה כפים הללו שלא ניטנפו בבנין וכ׳ ed. Lehm. (ed. Ven. נטפו, ed. Krot. חטפו, v. חָטַף) see these hands which have not been in the least soiled by misappropriating the Temple funds.