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نَعَشَهُ

Root: نعش

Form: 1

Full Definition

نَعَشَهُI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَعْشٌ, He raised him; lifted him up; as also ; which is disallowed by ISk, who says that it is a vulgar word, and by J after him, but is correct; and نعّشهُ , Verbal.Noun تَنْعِيشٌ: or He set him up, or upright; as also : [see an ex. in a verse cited voce شَمْلٌ:] or be [app. a man] raised him, or lifted him up, after a stumble, or trip. You say also, نَعَشْتُ الشَّجَرَةَ I set the tree upright, when it was leaning. And نَعَشَ طَرُفهُ He raised his eye, or eyes.
2 [Hence,] Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He recovered him from his embarrassment, or difficulty: he restored him from a state of poverty to wealth, or competence, or sufficiency: as also : and he recovered him from a state of perdition or destruction. And نَعَشَكَ ٱللّٰهُ May God restore thee from poverty to wealth, or competence, or sufficiency: or make thee to continue in life; preserve thee alive. And He set him up, and strengthened his heart. And الرَّبِيعُ يُنْعشُ النَّاسَ [The spring, or spring-herbage, or the season, or rain, called الربيع,] makes men to live and enjoy plenty of herbage or the like.
3 [Hence also,] نَعَشَ المَيِّتَ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun He eulogized, or praised, the dead man, and exalted his praise, or fame, or honour.
4 نَعَشُوا المَيِّتَ also signifies They carried the dead man upon the نَعْش, q. v. in the TA.])
5 نُعِشَ عَلَى جِنَارَتِهَا A نَعْش [q. v.] was made for her bier.
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