Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

آنى

Root: انى

Form: 4

Full Definition

آنىIV and signify the same. You say, آنَاهُ, with medd, Present.T يُؤْنِيهِ, Verbal.Noun إِينَآءٌ, [in the CK, اَنَيْتُهُ اِنْيًا is erroneously put for آنَيْتُهُ إِينَآءٌ,] He postponed it, put it off, deferred it, delayed it, retarded it; retrained it, withheld it, impeded it; whatever the thing be. And الطَّعَامَ فِى النَّارِ I kept the food long upon the fire. And لَا تُؤْنِ فُرْصَتَكَ Postpone not thou, or defer not, thine opportunity, or the time when thou art able to do a thing. And it is said in a trad., respecting the prayer of Friday, رَأَيْتُكَ آنَيْتَ وَآذَيْتَ I see thee to have delayed coming, and to have done what is annoying to others by stepping over the necks [of those already in their places in the mosque]: a saying of 'Omar.

def.2 آنَاهُ also signifies He made him, or it, to be distant, remote, or far off; removed far away, alienated, or estranged, him, or it; like أَنْآهُ [from which it is formed by transposition]. [Hence,] يُؤْنِيكَ occurs in a verse of Es-Sulameeyeh; meaning يُنْئِيكَ; the ء being put before the ن


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