أَنِقَ
Root: انق
Form: 1
Full Definition
أَنِقَI
, Present.T
ـَ Verbal.Noun أَنَقٌ, It excited admiration and approval by its beauty or goodliness; it pleased, or rejoiced.
2 Also, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He rejoiced; was joyful, happy, or pleased. You say, أَنِقْتُ بِهِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, I was pleased with it, or by it; or was rejoiced by it. (Lth, JK, Msb, K. [In the CK اَعْجَبَ is erroneously put for أُعْجِبَ] It is said in a trad., مَا مِنْ عَاشِيَةٍ أَشَدُّ أَنَقًا وَلَا أَبْعَدُ شِبَعًا مِنْ طَالِبِ عِلْمٍ There is not any eater by night [i. e. any man] who hath more pleasure and approval and desire and love [in his pursuit, nor any who is further from satiation therein, than the student, or pursuer, of science]; meaning that the man of learning is excessively greedy and insatiable, persevering in vehement desire.
3 And أَنَقَ الشَّىْءَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He loved the thing.
2 Also, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He rejoiced; was joyful, happy, or pleased. You say, أَنِقْتُ بِهِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, I was pleased with it, or by it; or was rejoiced by it. (Lth, JK, Msb, K. [In the CK اَعْجَبَ is erroneously put for أُعْجِبَ] It is said in a trad., مَا مِنْ عَاشِيَةٍ أَشَدُّ أَنَقًا وَلَا أَبْعَدُ شِبَعًا مِنْ طَالِبِ عِلْمٍ There is not any eater by night [i. e. any man] who hath more pleasure and approval and desire and love [in his pursuit, nor any who is further from satiation therein, than the student, or pursuer, of science]; meaning that the man of learning is excessively greedy and insatiable, persevering in vehement desire.
3 And أَنَقَ الشَّىْءَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He loved the thing.
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