نحت

1 نَحَتَ ذ , aor. نَخِتَ , (S, L, K,) contr. to analogy, (TA,) and نَخَتَ , (L, K,) which is the form preferred by IJ, because of the guttural letter, but this is disputed by MF, (TA,) and نَخُتَ , (K,) which is the form of weakest authority, (TA,) inf. n. نَحْتٌ, (S,) He cut, or hewed; formed, or fashioned, by cutting; cut out, hewed out, or shaped out; chipped: syn. بَرَى: (S, K:) he worked wood and the like as a carpenter; syn. نَجَرَ: he pared, peeled, barked, or deprived of its outer covering by paring, abrasure, or wearing away the exterior: he sawed. (L.) [See also لَحَتَ.] Accord. to some, the operation termed نحت is only performed upon something hard and strong, as stone and wood and the like. (MF.) [↓ انتحت seems to signify He cut, &c., for himself: ] you say, اِنْتَحِتْ مِنَ الخَشَبِ مَا يَكْفِيكَ لِلْوَقُودِ [ Cut, or hew, for thyself, of the wood, what will suffice thee for fuel ]: (A.) ― -b2- نَحَتَ بَيْتًا فِى الجَبَلِ, aor. نَخِتَ and نَخَتَ , inf. n. نَحْتٌ, He cut out, or hewed out, a house in the mountain. In the Kur, xv. 82, El-Hasan [El-Basree] reads يَنْحَتُونَ. (Msb.) [Accord. to the K, his reading is يَنْحَاتُونَ, (in the CK, تَنْحَاتُونَ,) but this I find nowhere else, and I believe it to be a mistake.] ― -b3- نُحِتَ عَلَى الكَرَمِ (tropical:) [ He was fashioned after the model of generosity; made by nature generous ]. (A.) ― -b4- نَحَتَ Inivit puellam: (K:) as also لَحَتَ; but the latter is the better known. (TA.) ― -b5- نَحَتَ, inf. n. نَحْتٌ, (tropical:) He beat, struck, or smote, him with a staff, or stick: (TA:) [as also لَحَتَ]. ― -b6- نَحَتَ He threw him down prostrate. (K.) ― -b7- نَحَتَ بِلِسَانِهِ (tropical:) He blamed; reprehended; reviled a man. (L.) [See also لَحَتَ.] ― -b8- نَحَتَ (tropical:) It (a journey, or travel,) emaciated a camel: (K:) it made a man less; made him thin, or slender. (TA.) ― -b9- نَحَتَ, (TA,) [aor. نَخِتَ and نَخَتَ ?] inf. n. نَحِيتٌ and نَحِيتَةٌ, He sighed aloud: the inf. ns. syn. with نَئِيتٌ and زَحِيرٌ. (K.)