نَاشَهُ
Root: نوش
Form: 1
Full Definition
And she reaches and takes of the drinking-trough, from above it, a copious draught by means of which she traverses [the middles of the] waterless deserts without needing other water. You say also, نُشْتُ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ شَيْئًا I obtained somewhat of the food. And الوَصِيَّةُ نَوْشٌ مِنَ المَعْرُوفِ [The testament is a means of an attaining of benefit]: i. e., the testator gives [for يَتَنَاوَلُ in my original I read يُنَاوِلُ] to the legatee without diminishing his property [during his own life]. And it is said in the Kur, [xxxiv. 51,] وَأَنَّى لَهُمُ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ meaning, [But how shall] the attaining of belief [be possible to them from a distant place, i. e.,] in the world to come, when they have disbelieved in him [namely Mohammad] in the present world? in which passage some read [التَّنَاؤُشُ,] with ء. [See art. نأش.] Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, in this instance, signifies Returning. And 'Áïsheh said of her father, الدِّينَ بِنَعْشِهِ إِيَّاهُ And he restored the religion, and laid hold upon it and took it from the abyss into which it had fallen; [by his exalting it;] in which instance, also, the verb is sometimes pronounced with ء.فَهْىَ تَنُوشُ الحَوْضَ نَوْشًا مِنْ عَلَا نَوْشًا بِهِ تَقْطَعُ أَجْوَازَ الْفَلَا
2 نَاشَ بِهِ, Present.T as above, He clung, or clave, to him, or it.
def.2 نُشْتُهُ خَيْرًا, Verbal.Noun نَوْشٌ, I made him to attain good; and شَرًّا evil.
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