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مَنَاطٌ

Root: نوط

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مَنَاطٌ A place of suspension, or hanging.
2 [Hence the saying,] فُلَانٌ مِنِّى مَنَاطَ الثُّرَيَّا [Such a one is with respect to me as though he were in the place of suspension of the Pleiades]; i. e., in distance: (Sb, S, K * [in the K, هذا is put for فُلَانٌ; and in the CK, مَناطُ is erroneously put for مناطَ]:) or the meaning is, in such a station: the prep. being understood, as in ذَهَبْتُ الشَأْمَ and دَخَلْتُ البَيْتَ: Z says, هُمْ مِنِّى مَنَاطَ الثُّرَيَّا [they are &c.] by reason of their elevated state.
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