نَاحِيَةٌ
Root: نحو
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نَاحِيَةٌ
i. q.
جَانِبٌ q. v., A side; a lateral, or an outward, or adjacent, part or portion.
2 An apartment of a house. (Mgh, voce حَيِّزٌ.) And the pl., نَوَاحٍ, The outer parts or regions of an animal. The sing. may often be rendered A part, or portion, of a place.
3 نَاحِيَةٌ is of the measure فَاعِلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ, [meaning مَنْحُوَّةٌ, a part, or the like, or a point, towards which one goes, or directs himself; a point of direction;] because one goes, or directs himself, towards it: best rendered as above; adding, or part, region, district, quarter, or tract, considered with respect to its collocation or juxtaposition or direction, or considered as belonging to a whole: a vicinage, or neighbourhood: and a part of a country, a region, district, quarter, or tract, absolutely; a district; a province: often best rendered a side; or a region, district, quarter, or tract: or a part of a place, an apartment: see حَيِّزٌ, in art. حوز.
4 Also A limit, bound, or boundary: see two tropical exs. of its pl. (نَوَاحٍ) voce حِنْوٌ, and another in a verse voce رَسُولٌ: or a remote side; syn. جَانِبٌ مُتَنَحٍّ: a tract of land. See أُفُقٌ and جَانِبٌ.
5 عَلَى نَاحِيَةٍ Beside, aside, or apart; like على جَانِبٍ and عَلى طَرَفٍ; and so نَاحِيَةً and فِى نَاحِيَةٍ, &c.: you say جَلَسَ فِى نَاحِيَةٍ مِنْهُمْ He sat aside, or apart, from them: and أَنَا فِى نَوَاحٍ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ, expl. voce شَفَقٌ. And فِى نَاحِيَةِ كَذَا In the direction of such a thing: see أَشْرَى.
6 هُوَ عَلَى نَاحِيَتِهِ He is keeping to his own side, following his own course: see جَدِيَّةٌ.
2 An apartment of a house. (Mgh, voce حَيِّزٌ.) And the pl., نَوَاحٍ, The outer parts or regions of an animal. The sing. may often be rendered A part, or portion, of a place.
3 نَاحِيَةٌ is of the measure فَاعِلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ, [meaning مَنْحُوَّةٌ, a part, or the like, or a point, towards which one goes, or directs himself; a point of direction;] because one goes, or directs himself, towards it: best rendered as above; adding, or part, region, district, quarter, or tract, considered with respect to its collocation or juxtaposition or direction, or considered as belonging to a whole: a vicinage, or neighbourhood: and a part of a country, a region, district, quarter, or tract, absolutely; a district; a province: often best rendered a side; or a region, district, quarter, or tract: or a part of a place, an apartment: see حَيِّزٌ, in art. حوز.
4 Also A limit, bound, or boundary: see two tropical exs. of its pl. (نَوَاحٍ) voce حِنْوٌ, and another in a verse voce رَسُولٌ: or a remote side; syn. جَانِبٌ مُتَنَحٍّ: a tract of land. See أُفُقٌ and جَانِبٌ.
5 عَلَى نَاحِيَةٍ Beside, aside, or apart; like على جَانِبٍ and عَلى طَرَفٍ; and so نَاحِيَةً and فِى نَاحِيَةٍ, &c.: you say جَلَسَ فِى نَاحِيَةٍ مِنْهُمْ He sat aside, or apart, from them: and أَنَا فِى نَوَاحٍ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ, expl. voce شَفَقٌ. And فِى نَاحِيَةِ كَذَا In the direction of such a thing: see أَشْرَى.
6 هُوَ عَلَى نَاحِيَتِهِ He is keeping to his own side, following his own course: see جَدِيَّةٌ.
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