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ثِنَآءٌ

Root: ثنى

Full Definition

ثِنَآءٌ The cord, or rope, with which a camel's fore shank and his arm are bound together; and the like; consisting of a folded, or doubled, cord, or rope: each of the folds, or duplicatures, thereof would be thus termed if the word were used in the sing. form: Ibn-EsSeed [in the CK, erroneously, Ibn-Es-Seedeh] allows it; and therefore it is given as on his authority in the K: and Lth allows it; but in this instance he allows what the Arabs do not allow: you say, عَقَلْتُ البَعِيرَ بِثِنَايَيْنِ, meaning I bound together the fore shanks and the arms of the camel with a rope, or with two ropes, or with the two ends of a rope; without ء because the word has no sing.: Lth allows one's saying بِثِنَآءَيْنِ also; but the Basrees and Koofees [in general] agree that it is without ء: IB says that it has no sing. because it is a single rope, with one end of which one fore leg is bound, and with the other end the other leg; and IAth says the like: this rope is also called ثِنَايَةٌ ; but a single rope for binding one fore shank and arm is not thus called. See also ثِنَايَةٌ.
2 And see ثَانٍ.

def.2 The فِنَآء [or court, or open or wide space, in front, or extending from the sides,] of a house: [in the CK, الغِناءُ is erroneously put for الفِناءُ:] accord. to IJ, from ثَنَى, Present.T يَثْنِى, because there one is turned back, by its limits, from expatiating; but A'Obeyd holds the ث to be a substitute for ف.


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