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نَشَأَ

Root: نشأ

Form: 1

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نَشَأَI , Present.T ـَ; and نَشُؤَ, Present.T ـُ; Verbal.Noun نَشْءٌ and نُشُوْءٌ and نَشَآءٌ and نَشْأَةٌ and نَشَآءَةٌ; He lived; and he rose, or became elevated, or high.
2 [It rose.]
3 النَّشْأَةُ الأُخْرَى, or النَّشَآءَةُ, [Kur, liii. 48,] The resurrection: [lit., the other life].
4 النَّشْأَةُ الآخِرَةُ, or النَّشَآءَةُ, [Kur, xxix. 19, the same: lit., the latter life]. [See also نَشْأَةٌ below.]
5 نَشَأَ, Verbal.Noun نَشْءٌ and نَشَآءٌ and نُشُوْءٌ; He grew up, and became a youth, or young man. [See نَاشِئٌ.]
6 نَشَأْتُ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ, and مَنْشَئِى فى بنى فلان, I grew up, and became a young man, among the sons of such a one.
7 نَشَأَ, Verbal.Noun نَشْءٌ and نُشُوْءٌ, It rose, and appeared: said of its first begin- ning.
8 نَشَأَ He arose.
9 [It became produced; it originated; عَنْ from another thing. See 4.]
10 It happened, occurred, or came to pass.
11 نَشَأَ لَهُ رَأْىٌ [An opinion occurred to him, or arose in his mind]. (S, K, art. بدو.)
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