أُنْثَي

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أُنْثَي Female; feminine; of the female, or feminine, sex, or gender; contr. of ذَكَرٌ: an epithet applied to anything of that sex or gender: IAar asserts, that a woman is termed انثي from the phrase بَلَدٌ أَنِيثٌ, q. v, because of her softness; she being more soft than a man: [but see the observation at the end of the first paragraph of this art.:] the pl. is إِنَاثٌ; and sometimes one says أُنُثٌ, as though it were pl. of إِنَاثٌ; or it is [truly] pl. of إِنَاثٌ, like as نُمُرٌ is of نِمَارٌ; and أَنَاثَى, which last occurs in poetry. You say, هٰذَا طَائِرٌ وَ أُنْثَاهُ [This is a bird and his female]: not أُنْثَاتُهُ. In the Kur iv. 117, I'Ab reads أُثُنًا [in the place of أُنُثًا or إِنَاثًا]; and Fr says that it is pl. of وَثَنٌ, the و in وُثُنٌ being changed into أ as in أُقِّتَتٌ [for وُقِّتَتٌ].
2 اِمْرَأَةٌ أَنْثَى [A feminine woman,] means a perfect woman; a woman being thus termed in praise; like as a man is termed رَجُلٌ ذَكَرٌ.
3 [The pl.]

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