Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تناشدوا

Root: نشد

Form: 6

Full Definition

تناشدواVI They recited [poetry] one to another.
2 El-Aashà, in the following verse, رَبِّى كَرِيمٌ لَا يُكَدِّرُ نِعْمَةً وَإِذَا تُنُوشِدَ فِى المَهَارِقِ أَنْشَدَا [My lord is generous; he does not sully a favour: and when he is asked, or begged, or besought, in papers, he gives], means, accord. to AO, that En-Noamán Ibn-El-Mundhir, when asked, or begged, or besought, to write grants to poets (جَوَائِز), gave: تنوشد is here for نُشِدَ, meaning سُئِلَ.


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