نهج1 نَهَجَ, (K, Msb,) aor. ـَ inf. n. نُهُوجٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انهج; (S, K;) It (a road, or way, S and Msb, and an affair, TA,) became  manifest, plainly apparent, or open; (S, K, Msb,) and so, with respect to a road, ↓ استنهج. (K.) b2:  نَهَجَ, (S, K, Msb,) and ↓ انهج, (K, Msb,) He, or it, rendered (a road, S and Msb, and an affair, TA,) manifest, plainly apparent, or open: (S, K, Msb:) b3:  إِعْمَلْ عَلَى مَا نَهَجْتُهُ لَكَ Do  according to that which I have made manifest to thee. (S.) A2:  نَهَجَ, aor. ـَ (inf. n. نَهْجٌ; TA,) and ↓ انهج, It (attrition, TA) wore out, or rendered worn out, a garment. (K.) b2:  نَهِجَ, aor. ـَ (A 'Obeyd, S, K;) and نَهَجَ, (K,) but this is disallowed by A 'Obeyd, (S,) and نَهُجَ, and ↓ انهج; (K;) It (a garment) became old and worn out: (K:) or ↓ انهج signifies it began to become warn out: (S:) and it became old and worn out, but without being rent in several parts. (TA.) انهج فِيهِ البِلَى [The effect of] attrition  spread through it. (IAar.) A3:  نَهَجَ الطَّرِيقَ He went along the road. (S, K.) A4:  نَهِجَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَهَجُ; (S, K;) and نُهِجَ, inf. n. نَهْجَةٌ; (ISh;) this inf. n. also mentioned by Lth, who knew no verb belonging to it; (L;) and نَهَجَ, aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. نَهِيجٌ; (L, in art. أنح;) and ↓ انهج, inf. n. إِنْهَاجٌ; (L;) He was out of breath; breathed short, or unintermittedly; panted: (S, L, K;) by reason of violent motion: said of a man, and of a beast of carriage, (L,) and of a dog. (T.) One says, فُلَانٌ يَنْهَجُ فِى النَّفَسِ↓ فَمَا أَدْرَِى مَا أَنْهَجَهُ Such a one is out of breath. or breathes short, or unintermittedly, or pants for breath, and I know not what hath caused him to be so, or to do so. And it is said in a trad., رَأَى رَجُلًا يَنْهَجُ He saw a man breathing short, or unintermittedly, or panting for breath, by reason of fatness, and putting forth his tongue, from fatigue or the like. (S.) 4 ضَرَبَهُ حَتَّى انهج He beat him until he became stretched along: or, until he wept: (TA:) [but probably بكى “ he wept ” is a mistake for بَلِىَ he became worn with the beating].A2: انهج He, or it, caused him (a man, S, and a beast of carriage, TA) to be out of breath, or to breath short, or unintermittedly, or to pant for breath. (S, TA.) [See an ex voce نَهِجَ.] He rode a beast of carriage so as to cause it, or until he caused it, to be out of breath, &c., (S, K,) and to become fatigued, or jaded. (TA.) A3:  See 1, throughout.10 إِسْتَنْهَجَ see 1. b2:  فُلَانٌ يَسْتَنْهِجُ سَبِيلَ فُلَانٍ, (S.) or طَرِيقَ فُلَانٍ, (K.) Such a one follows the way of such a one. (S, K.) نَهْجٌ (S, K,) and ↓ نَهجٌ (L) and ↓ مَنْهَجٌ and ↓ مِنْهَاجٌ (S, K) A manifest, plainly apparent, or open, road, or way: (S, L, K:) and so طَرِيقٌ↓ نَاهِجَةٌ: (TA, from a trad.:) pl. of the ??نَهْجَاتٌ and نُهُجٌ and نُهُوجٌ: (L:) [and of the third مَنَاهِج]. b2:  طُرُقٌ نَهْجَهٌ Manifest roads, or ways. (L.) b3:  And نَهْجُ الطَّرِيقِ [The plain, or open, track of the road]. (M, K, in art. سن.) نَهَجٌ: see نَهْجٌ.طَرِيقٌ نَاهِجَةٌ: see نَهْجٌ.مَنْهَجٌ and مِنْهَاجٌ: see نَهْجٌ.