بَنَاهُ
Root: بنى
Form: 1
Full Definition
بَنَاهُI
, Present.T
ـِ and
ـُ but the former is the more common, [or rather the only form commonly known,] Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ and بِنًا and بَنْىٌ and بُنْيَانٌ and بِنْيَةٌ and بنَايَةٌ, He built it; framed it; constructed it; contr. of
هَدَمَهُ; namely, a house, or tent, &c.; as also
, and
; or the last has teshdeed given to it to denote muchness, or frequency, or repetition, of the action, or its application to many objects; and hence you say, بنّى قُصُورًا [He built palaces, or pavilions: or he raised them high: see the pass. part. n. below]. AHn speaks of a kind of plank as being used فِى بِنَآءِ السُّفُنِ [in the construction of ships]: but بِنَآءٌ is originally used only in relation to that which does not grow; as stone, and clay, and the like. You say also, بَنَى أَرْضًا, for بَنَى فِى أَرْضٍ [He built in, or upon, land].
2 [Hence,] بَنَى عَلَى أَهْلِهِ, or عَلَى ٱمْرَأَتِهِ, and بَنَى بِهَا also, accord. to IDrd and IJ, and occurring in traditions and elsewhere, though said in the S to be vulgar, and said to be so by ISk, and by some said to be not allowable, but the former is the more chaste, Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ; as also ابتنى , i. e. ابتنى عليها, or ابتنى بِهَا, He had his wife conducted to him on the occasion of the marriage: or he went in to his wife [for the first time]: originating from the fact that the bridegroom used, on that occasion, to pitch a tent for her, a new tent, and furnish it with what was requisite, or a new tent was set up for him, in honour of him. [See also بَيْتٌ.]
3 بِنَايَةٌ is sometimes used in relation to nobility: and the verb thus used is بَنَى, as above, having [also] بِنًى for its Verbal.Noun, and بِنَآءٌ; held by many to be tropical, but by some to be proper. Lebeed says,
4 بَنَى بَدَنَهُ It fattened his body, and made it large: and بَنَى لَحْمَهُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ, or بَنْىٌ, It made his flesh to grow, and to become large.
5 بَنَى الرَّجُلَ He reared, brought up, or educated, the man; as also .
6 [بَنَى كَلِمَةً, Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ, He formed a word.
7 And He made a word indeclinable, so as to end invariably with a quiescent letter or with a particular vowel.] بِنَآءُ كَلِمَةٍ [when the former word is considered as the Verbal.Noun of the pass. form بُنِىَ, generally] signifies A word's keeping always the same mode of termination, ending with a quiescent letter or with a particular vowel, not by reason of any governing word: as though the word resembled a fixed, immoveable building. [You say, بُنِيَتْ عَلَى السُّكُونِ It was made indeclinable, with a quiescent letter for its termination; and عَلَى الفَتْحِ with fet-h for its termination; &c.
8 And in like manner you say, بَنَى القَصِيدَةَ عَلَى البَآءِ, &c., He made the قصيدة to have ب, &c., for its rhyme-letter, or its chief rhyme-letter.]
def.2 بَنَتِ القَوْسُ عَلَى وَتَرِهَا The bow clave to its string so that it almost broke. [See the part. n. below.]
2 [Hence,] بَنَى عَلَى أَهْلِهِ, or عَلَى ٱمْرَأَتِهِ, and بَنَى بِهَا also, accord. to IDrd and IJ, and occurring in traditions and elsewhere, though said in the S to be vulgar, and said to be so by ISk, and by some said to be not allowable, but the former is the more chaste, Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ; as also ابتنى , i. e. ابتنى عليها, or ابتنى بِهَا, He had his wife conducted to him on the occasion of the marriage: or he went in to his wife [for the first time]: originating from the fact that the bridegroom used, on that occasion, to pitch a tent for her, a new tent, and furnish it with what was requisite, or a new tent was set up for him, in honour of him. [See also بَيْتٌ.]
3 بِنَايَةٌ is sometimes used in relation to nobility: and the verb thus used is بَنَى, as above, having [also] بِنًى for its Verbal.Noun, and بِنَآءٌ; held by many to be tropical, but by some to be proper. Lebeed says,
And He hath built for us a house of nobility of lofty pitch, and its middle-aged and its youth have risen to it: i. e., all of them have attained to high degrees.فَسَمَا إِلَيْهِ كَهْلُهَا وَ غُلَامُهَا فَبَنَى لَنَا رَفِيعًا سَمْكُهُ
4 بَنَى بَدَنَهُ It fattened his body, and made it large: and بَنَى لَحْمَهُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ, or بَنْىٌ, It made his flesh to grow, and to become large.
5 بَنَى الرَّجُلَ He reared, brought up, or educated, the man; as also .
6 [بَنَى كَلِمَةً, Verbal.Noun بِنَآءٌ, He formed a word.
7 And He made a word indeclinable, so as to end invariably with a quiescent letter or with a particular vowel.] بِنَآءُ كَلِمَةٍ [when the former word is considered as the Verbal.Noun of the pass. form بُنِىَ, generally] signifies A word's keeping always the same mode of termination, ending with a quiescent letter or with a particular vowel, not by reason of any governing word: as though the word resembled a fixed, immoveable building. [You say, بُنِيَتْ عَلَى السُّكُونِ It was made indeclinable, with a quiescent letter for its termination; and عَلَى الفَتْحِ with fet-h for its termination; &c.
8 And in like manner you say, بَنَى القَصِيدَةَ عَلَى البَآءِ, &c., He made the قصيدة to have ب, &c., for its rhyme-letter, or its chief rhyme-letter.]
def.2 بَنَتِ القَوْسُ عَلَى وَتَرِهَا The bow clave to its string so that it almost broke. [See the part. n. below.]
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