انس

أَنَسٌ ذ i. q. أُنْسٌ, q. v. (S, K.) -A2- Also i. q. اـِنْسٌ, q. v. (Akh, S, TA.) ― -b2- Also A numerous company of men; (K, * TA;) many men. (TA.) ― -b3- A tribe (حَىُّ) staying, residing, dwelling, or abiding: (S, K:) the people of a place of alighting or abode: (M, TA: [but in the latter, in one place, said to be اـِنْسٌ, with kesr; though a verse cited in both, as an ex., shows it to be أَنَسٌ:]) the inhabitants of a house: (AA, TA:) pl. (of the word in the first sense, of these three, TA, and in the second, M, TA) اآنَاسٌ. (M, TA.) ― -b4- One with whom a person is sociable. (Ham p. 136.) You say also, هُمْ أَنَسُ فُلَانٍ They are they with whom such a one is sociable (اَلَّذِينَ يَسْتَأْنِسُ اـِلَيْهِمْ). (Lh, M.) And هُوَ أَنَسُ فُلَانٍ He is much accustomed to the serving of him. (Har p. 472.)