نَآءَ
Root: نوأ
Form: 1
Full Definition
نَآءَI
, Present.T يَنُوْءُ, Verbal.Noun نَوْءٌ and تَنْوَآءٌ, He rose, or arose, with effort and difficulty.
2 نَآءَ بِحِمْلِهِ He rose with his burden with effort and difficulty. he rose with his burden oppressed by its weight.
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4 نَآءَ بِصَدْرِهِ He arose. [App. said originally, if not only, of a camel.]
5 نَاءَ بِهِ and , It oppressed him by its weight, and bent him, or weighed him down.
6 تَنُوْءُ بِهَا عَجِيزَتُهَا Her buttocks oppress her by their weight: said of a woman.
7 نَآءَ He was oppressed by weight, and fell down: thus the verb bears two [partially] opposite significations.
8 نَآءَ بِجَانِبِهِ
9 نَآءَ النَّجْمُ, Present.T يَنُوْءُ, Verbal.Noun نَوْءٌ; and and إِسْتَنْأَى The star, or asterism, [generally said of one of those composing the Mansions of the Moon,] set , or rose , aurorally, i. e. at dawn of morning. See نَوْءٌ. [It seems that ناء is used in both these senses because the star or asterism appears as though it were nearly overcome by the glimmer of the dawn.]
def.2 نَآءَ, formed by transposition from نَأَى, or a dial. form of this latter, He, or it, was, or became, distant; removed to a distance; went far away.
2 ناء بِهِ [It rendered him distant, or removed him to a distance].
def.3 مَا سَآءَكَ وَنَآءَكَ [see explained in art. سوأ]: ناءك is here used for أَنَآءَكَ, in order to assimilate it to ساءك; like as they say هَنَأَنِى وَمَرَأَنِى, for أمْرَأَنِى.
2 نَآءَ بِحِمْلِهِ He rose with his burden with effort and difficulty. he rose with his burden oppressed by its weight.
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4 نَآءَ بِصَدْرِهِ He arose. [App. said originally, if not only, of a camel.]
5 نَاءَ بِهِ and , It oppressed him by its weight, and bent him, or weighed him down.
6 تَنُوْءُ بِهَا عَجِيزَتُهَا Her buttocks oppress her by their weight: said of a woman.
7 نَآءَ He was oppressed by weight, and fell down: thus the verb bears two [partially] opposite significations.
8 نَآءَ بِجَانِبِهِ
9 نَآءَ النَّجْمُ, Present.T يَنُوْءُ, Verbal.Noun نَوْءٌ; and and إِسْتَنْأَى The star, or asterism, [generally said of one of those composing the Mansions of the Moon,] set , or rose , aurorally, i. e. at dawn of morning. See نَوْءٌ. [It seems that ناء is used in both these senses because the star or asterism appears as though it were nearly overcome by the glimmer of the dawn.]
def.2 نَآءَ, formed by transposition from نَأَى, or a dial. form of this latter, He, or it, was, or became, distant; removed to a distance; went far away.
2 ناء بِهِ [It rendered him distant, or removed him to a distance].
def.3 مَا سَآءَكَ وَنَآءَكَ [see explained in art. سوأ]: ناءك is here used for أَنَآءَكَ, in order to assimilate it to ساءك; like as they say هَنَأَنِى وَمَرَأَنِى, for أمْرَأَنِى.
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