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نوط

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

تَنْوُاطٌ ذ What is hung (S, K) from, (S,) or upon, (K,) the [ kind of vehicle called ] هَوْدَجٌ, for ornament: (S, K:) or the implements, or apparatus, &c., that are hung upon a horse. (Ham, p. 165 ) ― -b2- And hence, (tropical:) Adventives; or persons who introduce themselves among a people, and live among them, not being of their race; and persons whose fathers are free men, or Arabs, and whose mothers are slaves, and who have become conjoined with the genuine and pure Arabs, not being of them: for ذُو التَّنْوَاطِ; [or ذَوُو التَّنْوَاطِ;] the latter of these two words being originally an inf. n.: or it may be an inf. n. used as an epithet. (Ham, ibid.) [See also مَنُوطٌ.]

Derived headwords

تَنْوُاطٌ
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ذُو التَّنْوَاطِ
ذَوُو التَّنْوَاطِ