أَنِيسٌ

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أَنِيسٌ i. q. مُؤَانِسٌ [generally used as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, meaning, A sociable, companionable, conversable, friendly, or familiar, person; a cheerful companion]: one with whom one is sociable, companionable, conversable, friendly, familiar, or cheerful: a person, or anything, by whose company, or converse, or presence, one is cheered, gladdened, solaced, or consoled. You say, مَا بِالدَّارِ أنِيسْ (or, as in some copies of the K, مِنْ أَنِيسٍ,) There is not in the house any one by whose company, or converse, or presence, one is cheered, gladdened, solaced, or consoled: or there is not in the house any one. [See also آنِسَةٌ.]
2 الأَنِيسُ The domestic cock; also called الشُّقَرُ.
3 الأَنِيسَةُ The fire; as also , [imperfectly decl., being a proper name and of the fem. gender,] and , of which [says ISd] I know no verb: because, when a man sees it in the night, he becomes cheerful and tranquil thereat, even if it be in a desert land. You say, بَاتَتِ الأَنِيسَةُ أَنِيسَتَهُ [The fire was during night his cheerful companion, or his cheerer by its presence].

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