أُنْسٌ

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أُنْسٌ Sociableness; companionableness; conversableness; inclination to company or converse; friendliness; amicableness; socialness; familiarity: cheerfulness; gayness; gladsomeness: contr. of وَحْشَةٌ: joy; gladness; happiness: or ease, or tranquillity: or ease, or tranquillity, of heart, and freedom from shrinking, or from aversion: an Verbal.Noun of 1, as are also أَنَسٌ and أَنَسَةٌ and إِنْسٌ , but this is rare as signifying the contr. of وَحْشَةٌ: or إِنْسٌ is the Verbal.Noun of أَنِسَ بِهِ; but أُنُسٌ is not: this latter is a subst. from that verb [signifying as explained above]: or only signifying converse, and companionship, or familiarity, with women; or amatory conversation and conduct; or the talk of young men and young women: [but of all the forms above, أُنْسٌ is that which is most commonly used, at least in post-classical works, as signifying the contr. of وَحْشَةٌ.]
2 [Also Delight, as meaning a cause of delight, or thing that gives delight.] A poet says, يَا سَاكِنِى مَكَّةَ لَا زِلْتُمُ أُنْسًا لَنَا إِنِّىَ لَمْ أَنْسَكُمْ مَا فِيكُمُ عَيْبٌ سِوَى قَوْلِكُمْ عِنْدَ اللِّقَا أَوْحَشَنَا أُنْسُكُمْ [O inhabitants of Mekkeh, may ye not cease to be a delight to us: verily I have not forgotten you: there is in you no fault beside your saying, at meeting, Your sociableness, or companiableness, &c., has made us feel lonely and sad; meaning, in your absence]. (TA in art. وحش.) [See أَوْحَشَ. But this signification, though allowable as tropical, is perhaps post-classical.]
3 اِبْنُ أُنْس: and فُلَانٌ ٱبْنُ أُنْسِ فُلَانٍ: and كَيْفَ ٱبْنُ أُنْسِكَ: and كَيْفَ تَرَى ٱبْنَ أُنْسِكَ: see إِنْسٌ.

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