هَنُؤَ
Root: هنأ
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 هَنُؤَ الطَّعَامُ Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun هَنَآءَةٌ and هَنَأَةٌ and هَنْءٌ, or هِنْءٌ ; epithet هَنِىْءٌ; and هَنِئَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun هَنْءٌ; and هَنَأَ, Present.T ـِ The food was, or became, pleasant, or productive of enjoyment, to the eater: or easy to swallow; not attended by trouble: [agreeable:] or not succeeded by harm, even after digestion. (Z, cited voce مَرُؤَ.)
3 هَنَأَنِى الطَّعَامُ, , and هَنَأَ لِىَ, Present.T ـِ and ـَ and ـُ unexampled, says Akh, in the class termed mahmooz, [though بَرَأَ and قَرَأَ are similar with respect to their having damm to the Present.T,] Verbal.Noun هَنْءٌ and هِنْءٌ, [The food was pleasant, or productive of enjoyment, to me: or easy to swallow; &c.: see هَنُؤَ].
4 هَنَأَنِى الطّعامُ وَمَرأَنِى: see art. مرأ.
5 هَنَأَهُ ذٰلِكَ, and هنأ لَهُ ذلك That was pleasant, or productive of enjoyment, to him; &c. [See هَنُؤَ.]
6 هَنَأَنِى خَبَرُ فُلَانٍ The news of such a one was pleasant to me to hear.
7 هَنِئَ الطّعَامَ, Present.T ـَ; and تهنّأ بَالطّعامِ, and تهنّأ الطّعام, and استهنأهُ, [He enjoyed the food; found it pleasant, or productive of enjoyment; &c.: see هَنُؤَ:] he found the food to be productive of no evil result, and not attended by inconvenience.
8 هَنِئَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun هَنَأٌ and هَنْءٌ, He lighted upon a good piece of herbage, but did not satiate himself therewith.
9 أَكَلْنَا هٰذَا الطَّعَامَ حَتَّى هَنِئْنَا مِنْهُ We ate this food until we were satiated with it.
10 هَنِئَتِ الإِبِلُ The camels were satiated with herbage.
11 هَنِئَ بِهِ He rejoiced in him, or it.
12 هَنَأَنَا اللّٰهُ الطَّعَامَ [God made the food pleasant, or productive of enjoyment, to us: &c.: made us to enjoy it: see هَنُؤَ].
13 هَنَأَتْنِيهِ العَافِيَةُ [Health made it pleasant, or productive of enjoyment, to me: &c.].
14 لِيَهْنِئْكَ الفَارِسُ [May the horseman give thee joy: a form of congratulation on the exploits of a horseman; i. e., I congratulate thee on the exploits of the horseman]: also written and pronounced لِيَهْنِيكَ: ليهنك, though it occurs in a trad., pronounced لِيَهْنِكَ or لِيَهْنَكَ, is said to be a vulgarism, and not allowable.
15 هَنَأَهُ, Present.T ـَ [and app., ـِ (see هَانِئٌ)], Verbal.Noun هَنْءٌ, He fed him; or gave him to eat.
16 هَنَأَهُ, Present.T ـَ and ـِ Verbal.Noun هَنْءٌ; and ; He gave him, or bestowed upon him: gave him plentifully.
17 هَنَأَ الطَّعَامَ, Verbal.Noun هَنْءٌ and هِنْءٌ and هَنَآءَةٌ or هَنَأَةٌ or هِنَأَةٌ or هَنْأَةٌ , He made the food good; qualified it properly; seasoned it: syn. أَصْلَحَهُ.
18 هَنَأَ مَالَهُ, and ماله, He put his property in a right, or good, state.
19 هَنَأَ القَوْمَ, Present.T ـَ He nourished, or maintained, the people; satisfied their wants; bestowed upon them. Ex. هَنَأَهُمْ شَهْرَيْنِ [He maintained them two months]. Hence the proverb quoted in illustration of the word هَانِئٌ, accord. to the second reading.
20 هَنَأَهُ He aided, succoured, or defended, him.
def.2 هَنَأَ الإِبِلَ, Present.T ـَ and ـِ and ـُ , Verbal.Noun هَنَأٌ and هَنْءٌ, He smeared the camels with هِنَآء, which is tar, or liquid pitch, syn. قَطِرَان, or a kind thereof, [as a
2 لَيْسَ الهَنْءُ بِالدَّسِّ The smearing of a camel [all over] with هِنَآء is not [merely] smearing the cavities under the shoulders, and the like, which the mange, or scab, more quickly attacks. A proverb, applied to him who does not a thing thoroughly.
3 See 2.
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