Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and al-Mufradat — All in One Search

آنِسَةٌ

Root: انس

Full Definition

آنِسَةٌ A girl of cheerful mind, whose nearness, and conversation, or discourse, thou lovest, or whose conversation, or discourse, and nearness, are loved: or a girl of pleasant conversation or discourse; as also أَنُوسٌ : and آنِسَةُ الحَدِيثِ who becomes sociable, companionable, conversable, friendly, familiar, or cheerful, by means of thy conversation or discourse: it does not mean who cheers thee [by conversation or discourse]: pl. أَوَانِسُ and آنِسَاتٌ: and the pl. of أَنُوسٌ is أُنُسٌ. [See also أَنِيسٌ.]
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mufradat

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more