ابناهُ
Root: بنى
Form: 4
Full Definition
ابناهُIV
He made him to build, frame, or construct, a house, or tent: or he gave him a building: or he gave him that wherewith to build a house: and ابناهُ بَيْتًا
he gave him a house, or tent, to build or frame or construct. It is said in a prov., المِعْزَي تُبْهِى وَلَا تُبْنِى [Goats rend, or make holes, and render vacant, and do not afford materials for fabricating tents]; i. e., they do not yield hair of which a tent is fabricated; for the tents of the Arabs [of the desert] are of the kind called طِرَاف, made of skin, and أَخْبِيَة, made of wool or of camels' fur, and not of شَعَر [by which is especially meant goats' hair], or, as is found in the handwriting of Aboo-Sahl, of wool or of skin: or the meaning is, goats rend tents, or pierce them with holes, by their leaping upon them, (T and S in art. بهو,) so that they cannot be inhabited, and do not aid in the fabrication of tents; for the goats of the Arabs of the desert
2 [Hence,] He introduced him to his wife [on the occasion of his marriage]: whence the saying of 'Alee, مَتَى تُبْنيِنِى, accord. to IAth properly meaning مَتَى تَجْعَلُنِى أَبْنِى بِزَوْجَتِى [When wilt thou make me to have my wife conducted to me? or, to go in to my wife?].
2 [Hence,] He introduced him to his wife [on the occasion of his marriage]: whence the saying of 'Alee, مَتَى تُبْنيِنِى, accord. to IAth properly meaning مَتَى تَجْعَلُنِى أَبْنِى بِزَوْجَتِى [When wilt thou make me to have my wife conducted to me? or, to go in to my wife?].
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