مَثْنَاةٌ
Root: ثنى
Full Definition
مَثْنَاةٌ
; pl. مَثَانٍ: see ثِنْىٌ: and ثِنَايَةٌ: and مَثْنًى; the last in two places.
2 It is said in a trad. that one of the signs of the resurrection will be the public reading, or reciting, of the مَثْنَاة, which means That which has been desired to be transcribed from a source other than the Book of God: or a certain book, [the Mishna,] which the learned men, and the recluses, of the Children of Israel, after Moses, composed after their own desire, from a source other than the Book of God, as A'Obeyd says on the authority of a man learned in the books of the earlier times, containing the histories of the Children of Israel after Moses, in which they allowed and disallowed what they pleased: or what is sung: or what is called in Persian دُو بَيْتِى, which means two verses, each composed of a pair of hemistichs; i. e. what is sung; but A'Obeyd explains it otherwise than thus: it is what is known among the 'Ajam by the term مَثْنَوِىٌّ , as though this were a rel. n. from مَثْنَاةٌ: the vulgar say [erroneously] ذُو بَيْت, with the pointed ذ.
2 It is said in a trad. that one of the signs of the resurrection will be the public reading, or reciting, of the مَثْنَاة, which means That which has been desired to be transcribed from a source other than the Book of God: or a certain book, [the Mishna,] which the learned men, and the recluses, of the Children of Israel, after Moses, composed after their own desire, from a source other than the Book of God, as A'Obeyd says on the authority of a man learned in the books of the earlier times, containing the histories of the Children of Israel after Moses, in which they allowed and disallowed what they pleased: or what is sung: or what is called in Persian دُو بَيْتِى, which means two verses, each composed of a pair of hemistichs; i. e. what is sung; but A'Obeyd explains it otherwise than thus: it is what is known among the 'Ajam by the term مَثْنَوِىٌّ , as though this were a rel. n. from مَثْنَاةٌ: the vulgar say [erroneously] ذُو بَيْت, with the pointed ذ.
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