نَاشِئٌ
Root: نشأ
Full Definition
نَاشِئٌ
A young person past the age of puberty: or a boy or girl past the age of childhood: or a comely young man: or a youth who has attained the stature of a man: a girl, as well as a boy, is called thus; and they also say, جَارِيَةٌ نَاشِئَةٌ. Pl. نَشْءٌ and نَشَأٌ and نَاشِئُونَ and نَواشِئُ: or the last is a pl. of ناشئ as applied to a girl. Lth says that
نَشْءٌ signifies Young people; or youths; and is used in the sing. also: ex. هُوَ نَشْءُ سَوْءٍ
He is a bad youth: and he says that he had never heard ناشئ used as an epithet for a girl. Fr says that the ء of the pl. نَشْءٌ is sometimes suppressed, and they say, in the nom. نَشُو صدْقٍ [Excellent youths]; acc., نَشَا صدق; gen. نَشِى
صدق.
2 نَاشِئٌ Clouds not completely collected together. Hence, it is said, is derived the expression نَشَأَ الصَّبِىُّ; which is therefore tropical.
3 نَاشِئٌ Whatever happens in the night: pl. نَاشِئَةٌ; a strange form of pl. of a word of the measure قَاعِلٌ: or نَاشِئَةٌ [see Kur, lxxiii. 6,] is an Verbal.Noun in the sense of قِيَامٌ: AM says, that ناشئةُ اللَّيْلِ signifies قيام الليل the rising in the night: or ناشئة signifies the first part of the night, and of the day: or the first of the hours of the night: or a pious act of the night; i. e., performed in the night: or every hour of the night in which one rises: or every hour of the night: or a rising after a sleeping, in the first part of the night; as also نَشِيْئَةٌ .
2 نَاشِئٌ Clouds not completely collected together. Hence, it is said, is derived the expression نَشَأَ الصَّبِىُّ; which is therefore tropical.
3 نَاشِئٌ Whatever happens in the night: pl. نَاشِئَةٌ; a strange form of pl. of a word of the measure قَاعِلٌ: or نَاشِئَةٌ [see Kur, lxxiii. 6,] is an Verbal.Noun in the sense of قِيَامٌ: AM says, that ناشئةُ اللَّيْلِ signifies قيام الليل the rising in the night: or ناشئة signifies the first part of the night, and of the day: or the first of the hours of the night: or a pious act of the night; i. e., performed in the night: or every hour of the night in which one rises: or every hour of the night: or a rising after a sleeping, in the first part of the night; as also نَشِيْئَةٌ .
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