Jastrow: נַנָּס

נַנָּס m. (νᾶνος, nanus, of Semitic origin, fr. נסס, cmp. ממל fr. מלל) dwarf; (adj.) puny, stumped. Nidd. 24ᵇ, opp. אָרוּךְ; Num. R. s. 9. Ber. 58ᵇ נ׳ one whose limbs are too small for his body, opp. כִּיפֵּחַ; Tosef. ib. VII (VI), 3 ננוס ed. Zuck. (Var. ננס); Y. ib. IX, 13ᵇ bot.; Tanḥ. ed. Bub., Pinḥas 1. Sifra Emor, Par. 3, ch. III; Bekh. VII, 6 (45ᵇ, of animals and of men). Cant. R. to II, 15; Gen. R. s. 65 נ׳ שבננסים a puny dwarf. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXXXVII; Pesik. R. s. 31 הנ׳ הזה that dwarf (Nebuchadnezzar); a. fr.—Ḥull. 63ᵃ וסימנך ננוס פסול and thy sign (to remember that the small species of שקיטנא is unclean) be, ‘the dwarf is unfit’ (for priesthood).—Pl. נַנָּסִים, נַנָּסִין. Cant. R. l. c.; Gen. R. l. c., v. supra. Pesik. R. s. 37; Yalk. ib. 62 כפתורים נ׳ Caphtorites (Gen. X, 14) are dwarfs; a. fr.—Tam. III, 5; Midd. III, 5 עמודים .נ׳ small columns. Ib. V, 2 הנ׳ (sub. עמודים).—Fem. נַנֶּסֶת. Bekh. 45ᵇ. Par. II, 2; a. e.