استأنس
Root: انس
Form: 10
Full Definition
def.2 استأنس signifies also He became sensible of the presence or nearness of a human being.
def.3 He looked; as in the phrase اِذْهَبْ فَٱسْتَأْنِسْ هَلْ تَرَى أَحَدًا [Go thou and look if thou see any one]: he considered, or examined, endeavouring to obtain a clear knowledge of a thing; and looked aside, or about, to ascertain if he could see any one: he sought, or asked for, knowledge, or information; he inquired: and hence, he asked permission. It is said in the Kur [xxiv. 27], لَا تَدْخُلُوا بُيُوتًا غَيْرَ بُيُوتِكُمْ حَتَّي تَسْتَأْنِسُوا وَتُسَلِّمُوا [Enter ye not houses other than your own houses] until ye inquire whether its inhabitants desire that ye should enter or not; [and salute:] or until ye ask permission: but Fr says that the sentence presents an inversion, and that the meaning is, until ye salute, and ask if ye shall enter or not: I'Ab says that تَستأنسوا is a mistranscription; and he and Ubeí and Ibn-Mes'ood read تَسْتَأْذِنُوا, which signifies the same: [it is said that] استأنس also signifies he made a reiterated hemming, like a slight coughing; [as a man does to notify his nearness;] syn. تَنَحْنَحَ: and so some explain it in the text of the Kur quoted above.
2 استأنس لَهُ He listened to, or endeavoured or sought to hear, him, or it; as also . [See the Kur xxxiii. 53.]
def.4 استأنسهُ: see 4.
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