نَوْطٌ
Root: نوط
Full Definition
نَوْطٌ
A thing, whatever it be, that is suspended, or hung, from another thing; an Verbal.Noun used as a subst.: and particularly a thing that is put, or hung, upon a camel, (عِلَاوَةٌ,) between two halves of a load,
بين عِدْلَيْنِ, or, as A 'Obeyd says, بَيْنَ العُودَيْنِ [which, if not a mistranscription, app. means between the two staves of the saddle]; the علاوة being thus called because it is suspended (تُنَاطُ) to the load: and a small [receptacle of palm-leaves, of the kind called] جُلَّة, containing dates and the like, which is suspended from a camel, being hung, by its handles, from the saddle of the camel of burden: such, says Az, I have heard thus called by the people of El-Bahreyn: pl. [of pauc.] أَنْوَاطٌ and [of mult.] نِيَاطٌ the former is pl. of نَوْطٌ in the general sense first mentioned above: and also signifies what is suspended (نُوِّطَ, as in two copies of the S, or نُوطَ, as in the TA) upon the camel when he is loaded: and i. q.
مَعَالِيقُ [things suspended to a beast of burden; such as the
قُمْقُمَة
and the
قِرْبَة
and the
مِطْهَرَة]. It is said in a proverb عَاطٍ بَغَيْرِ أَنْوَاطٍ
Taking [or reaching to take] without there being there anything suspended; which is like the saying “ Driving by singing without having a camel ” (S, L, See also art عطو.]) And in another proverb. إِنْ أَعْيَا
البَعِيرُ فَزِدْهُ نَوْطًا [If the camel be fatigued, add thou to him an appendage to his full load] meaning, if he be slow and inobsequious in his pace, do not thou lighten his burden: accord. to As, إِنْ أَعْيَا فَزِدْهُ نَوْطًا is a proverb relating to the pressing a niggardly man.
2 ذَاتُ أَنْوَاطٍ the name of A particular tree, of great size, which was worshipped in the time of ignorance, said by IAth to be the name of a particular gum-acacia-free (سَمُرَة) to which the believers in a plurality of gods used to suspend their weapons, and around which they used to circuit.
3 النَّوْطُ المُذَبْذِبُ occurs in a trad. as meaning The leg of a rider, from fatigue or some other cause, ever dangling, or moving to and fro.
2 ذَاتُ أَنْوَاطٍ the name of A particular tree, of great size, which was worshipped in the time of ignorance, said by IAth to be the name of a particular gum-acacia-free (سَمُرَة) to which the believers in a plurality of gods used to suspend their weapons, and around which they used to circuit.
3 النَّوْطُ المُذَبْذِبُ occurs in a trad. as meaning The leg of a rider, from fatigue or some other cause, ever dangling, or moving to and fro.
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