Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

هَنِىْءٌ

Root: هنأ

Full Definition

هَنِىْءٌ What comes or happens to one without inconvenience, or trouble: [what is pleasant, or productive of enjoyment; an unalloyed gratification, i. e., a thing that gives unalloyed enjoyment; see what follows:] as also مَهْنَأٌ , a subst., sometimes written and pronounced مَهْنَا; pl. مَهَانِئُ, sometimes written and pronounced مَهَانٍ. [See مهنأ also below.]
2 Pleasant, or productive of enjoyment, to the eater: or easy to swallow; not attended by trouble: or not succeeded by harm, even after its digestion. (Z, cited voce مَرُؤَ.)
3 هَنِيْئًا مَرِيْئًا [May it be, or Eat it, or Drink it, with enjoyment, and with wholesome result: or with ease in the swallowing, and with quickness in digesting: &c.: see مَرُؤَ].
4 هَنِيْئًا لَهُ ذٰلِكَ [May that be productive of enjoyment to him!].
5 هَنِيْئًا and مَرِيْئًا are of the number of epithets which are employed after the manner of inf. ns. significant of a prayer or good wish, governed in the acc. case by a verb understood.


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