دِنْىٍ
and دِنْيًا and دِنْيَا and
دُنْيَا mean [He is a son of a paternal uncle] closely related; syn. لَحًّا [q. v.]: when you pronounce the د with damm, you do not make the word perfectly decl.: when you pronounce it with kesr, you make it either perfectly or imperfectly decl.: but when you prefix عَمّ to a determinate noun, دِنْى may not be in the gen. case: for instance, you say, هُوَ ٱبْنُ عَمِّهِ دِنْيًا, i. e. [He is the son of his paternal uncle] closely related; as also
دِنْيَةٌ; because دِنْى, being indeterminate, cannot be an epithet applied to that which is determinate: and [in like manner] you say, هُوَ ٱبْنُ عَمِّى, or ابن خَالِى, or ابن عَمَّتِى, or ابن خَالَتِى, or ابن أَخِى, or ابن أُخْتِى, all mentioned by Lh, the last two as on the authority of Aboo- Safwán, but all except the first and second as unknown to Ks and to As, followed by
دِنْيَةٌ and دِنْيًا and دِنْيَا and
دُنْيَا, the last two without tenween, (TA; [and so written in the M; but in the CK and my MS. copy of the K, in the place of these two is put دُنْيًا, which is disallowed by J;]) meaning [He is the son of my paternal uncle, and the son of my maternal uncle, &c.,] closely related: and
هُوَ عَمُّهُ and
and دِنْيًا and دِنْيَا [He is his paternal uncle closely related]: Lh says that the و is changed into ى in
and دِنٌيًا because of the nearness of the kesreh and the weakness of the intervening letter, as is the case in فِتْيَةٌ and عِلْيَةٌ: but it seems that these words are originally
دُنْيَا, i. e., by a relationship, or uterine relationship, nearer to me than others; and that the change of the letter is made only to show that the ى is that of the fem. of أَدْنَى. You say also, هُمْ رَهْطُهُ They are his people, and his tribe, closely related. (S and TA in art. رهط.)
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