Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَنَّنْتُ

Root: عن

Form: 2

Full Definition

عَنَّنْتُII : see 4.
2 عَنَّنْت الفَرَسَ: see 1, last quarter.
3 [Hence, perhaps,] عُنِّنَ عَنِ ٱمْرَأَتِهِ, Verbal.Noun تَعْنِينٌ, which see also voce عُنَّةٌ, former half, in two places, He was pronounced by the judge to be incapacitated from going in to his wife, or to have no desire for his wife: or to be withheld from her by enchantment, or fascination: and signifies the same; as also , and ; and . (TA. [Thus in the supplement to this art. in the TA; but it seems that the last of these verbs may be a mistranscription for أُعِنَّ, as this verb is there omitted, though the other verbs are mentioned, and followed by the part. ns. مَعْنُونٌ and مُعَنٌّ and مُعَنَّنٌ, but not مُعْتَنٌّ.])
4 التَّعْنيِنُ also signifies The confining in a deep مَطْبَق [or subterranean prison].
5 And عَنَّنَتْ شَعَرَهَا, said of a woman, means شَكَلَتْ بَعْضَهُ بِبَعْضٍ [i. e. She plaited together two locks of her hair, of the fore part of her head, on the right and left, and then bound them with her other pendent locks or plaits].

def.2 See also Q. Q. 1.


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