Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and Al Mawrid — All in One Search

هَنَّاهُ

Root: هنأ

Form: 2

Full Definition

هَنَّاهُII He made him to think of pleasant things, or things productive of enjoyment, and of things wished for, or objects of desire, in his prayer. The former verb is pronounced thus to assimilate it to the latter.
2 هنّأهُ بِالأَمْرِ, Verbal.Noun تَهْنِئَةٌ and تَهْنِىْءٌ; and , Verbal.Noun هَنْءٌ; He congratulated him on the thing, such as the possession of a government, &c.: he said to him لِيَهْنِئْكَ [May it give thee joy].
3 [When the agent of the verb is God, the meaning necessarily is, He granted him enjoyment in the thing; made him to have enjoyment in it.]
4 هُنِّئْتَ وَلَا تُنْكَهْ: see art. نكأ.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mawrid

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Search →

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more