نِيَاطٌ

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نِيَاطٌ The loop-shaped handle (عُرْوَة) of a قِرْبَة [or water-skin]: the [appendage called] مُعَلَّق [q. v.] of a bow; by which it is suspended: (K, voce خَطَمَ:) and of a قِرْبَة: [by which it is suspended; and of anything.
2 See also شِيَاقٌ.
3 Also النِّيَاطُ [i. e. نِيَاطُ القَلْبِ The suspensory of the heart;] a vein, or a thick vein, [app. the ascending aorta,] by which the heart is suspended from, (مِنْ, S, Msb [or possibly this may mean forming a part of,]) or to, (إِلَى, K,) the وَتِين, [which seems here to signify the descending aorta, or, accord. to the second rendering of من, suggested above, the aorta altogether,] the cutting, or severing, of which causes death; as also : pl. [of pauc.] أَنْوِطَةٌ and [of mult.] نُوطٌ, with damm, because the ى in نِيَاطٌ is originally و: the latter is allowable when the number is not meant [to be limited to a few]: or, accord. to some, there are two things thus called: the upper being that of the heart: and the lower, the فَرْج. [Hence,] المُقَطَّعَةُ النِّيَاطِ is applied to The أَرْنَب [or female hare], like مُقَطَّعَةُ الأَسْحَارِ, as an appellation of good omen, i. e. as meaning that her نياط will be severed: or, as some say, المُقَطِّعَةُ النِّيَاطِ, as meaning that, by reason of her swiftness, her نياط, or [as in the A,] the نياط of [every one of] the dogs [that pursue her], will be severed. Hence also the saying, رَمَاهُ ٱللّٰهُ , meaning [God smote him, or may God smite him,] with death. [See also art. نيط.] [Hence likewise,] النِّيَاطُ is applied to Two stars [app. s and t of Scorpio] between which is قَلْبُ العَقْرَبِ [which is the star and of that constellation].
4 Also, i. q. الفُؤَادُ [which generally means The heart; but is probably here used in one of its other senses, namely, the appendages of the œsophagus, consisting of the liver and lungs and heart].
5 Also, A certain vein lying within the صُلْب [i. e. backbone, or back], beneath the [portion of flesh and sinew called the] مَتْن; and so : or the latter is a vein extending in, or along, the صُلْب, [in some copies of the K, قَلْب, which, as is said in the TA, is a mistake,] by the cutting of which the مَصْفُور [or person in whose belly is yellow water, as explained in the TA,] is treated for the purpose of cure.
6 نِيَاطُ المَفَازَةِ The far extent of the desert: or of the way thereof; as though it were connected with another desert, hardly coming to an end. [Thus,] البَعِيدُ نِيَاطُهُ, applied to the Hijáz, means البَعِيدُ مُعَلَّقُهُ [i. e. Whereof every connected part, or appendant tract, is far-extending]. . The Rájiz, El-'Ajjáj, says, وَبَلْدَةٍ بَعِيدَةِ النِّيَاطِ مَجْهُولَةٍ تَغْتَالُ خَطْوَ الخَاطِى [Many a region far extending, unknown, rendering unapparent the trace of the stepping of the stepper]. (S and O in the present art. and in art. غول.)

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