نَحَتَ
Root: نحت
Form: 1
Full Definition
نَحَتَI
, Present.T
ـِ contr. to analogy, and
ـَ which is the form preferred by IJ, because of the guttural letter, but this is disputed by MF, and
ـُ which is the form of weakest authority, Verbal.Noun نَحْتٌ, He cut, or hewed; formed, or fashioned, by cutting; cut out, hewed out, or shaped out; chipped: syn. بَرَى: he worked wood and the like as a carpenter; syn. نَجَرَ: he pared, peeled, barked, or deprived of its outer covering by paring, abrasure, or wearing away the exterior: he sawed. [See also لَحَتَ.] Accord. to some, the operation termed نحت is only performed upon something hard and strong, as stone and wood and the like. [
seems to signify He cut, &c., for himself:] you say, اِنْتَحِتْ مِنَ الخَشَبِ مَا يَكْفِيكَ لِلْوَقُودِ [Cut, or hew, for thyself, of the wood, what will suffice thee for fuel]:
2 نَحَتَ بَيْتًا فِى الجَبَلِ, Present.T ـِ and ـَ Verbal.Noun نَحْتٌ, He cut out, or hewed out, a house in the mountain. In the Kur, xv. 82, El-Hasan [El-Basree] reads يَنْحَتُونَ. [Accord. to the K, his reading is يَنْحَاتُونَ, (in the CK, تَنْحَاتُونَ,) but this I find nowhere else, and I believe it to be a mistake.]
3 نُحِتَ عَلَى الكَرَمِ
4 نَحَتَ Inivit puellam: as also لَحَتَ; but the latter is the better known.
5 نَحَتَ, Verbal.Noun نَحْتٌ,
6 نَحَتَ He threw him down prostrate.
7 نَحَتَ بِلِسَانِهِ
8 نَحَتَ
9 نَحَتَ, [Present.T ـِ and ـَ?] Verbal.Noun نَحِيتٌ and نَحِيتَةٌ, He sighed aloud: the inf. ns. syn. with نَئِيتٌ and زَحِيرٌ.
2 نَحَتَ بَيْتًا فِى الجَبَلِ, Present.T ـِ and ـَ Verbal.Noun نَحْتٌ, He cut out, or hewed out, a house in the mountain. In the Kur, xv. 82, El-Hasan [El-Basree] reads يَنْحَتُونَ. [Accord. to the K, his reading is يَنْحَاتُونَ, (in the CK, تَنْحَاتُونَ,) but this I find nowhere else, and I believe it to be a mistake.]
3 نُحِتَ عَلَى الكَرَمِ
4 نَحَتَ Inivit puellam: as also لَحَتَ; but the latter is the better known.
5 نَحَتَ, Verbal.Noun نَحْتٌ,
6 نَحَتَ He threw him down prostrate.
7 نَحَتَ بِلِسَانِهِ
8 نَحَتَ
9 نَحَتَ, [Present.T ـِ and ـَ?] Verbal.Noun نَحِيتٌ and نَحِيتَةٌ, He sighed aloud: the inf. ns. syn. with نَئِيتٌ and زَحِيرٌ.
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