Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

نَيِّحَةُ رِيحٍ أُخْرَى ذ A counterwind, or wind which is the opposite, of another wind. (S, A. L.) One that blows transversely with respect to another is called the نَسِيجَة of the latter. (S, L.)

نَوَّاحَةٌ ذ : see نائِحَةٌ.

النَّوَاحِى ذ : see نَائِحَةٌ.

نَائِحَةٌ ذ [ A wailing woman ]: (Msb:) pl. نَوَائِحُ and نَائِحَاتٌ: and you also say ↓ نِسَاآءٌ نَوْحٌ, and أَنْوَاحٌ, and ↓ نُوَّحٌ: (S, K:) نَوَائِحُ is an epithet applied to women who assemble in a مَنَاحَة: and ↓ مَنَاحَةٌ (also) and ↓ نَوْحٌ signify women who assemble together for the purpose of mourning. (L.) نَوَائِحُ are so called from التَّنَاوُح, signifying “ the being opposite, one to another: ” (S:) [if so, it is app. a tropical term: but accord. to the A, التناوح, as above explained, is tropical]. Also ↓ نَوَّاحَةٌ [ A woman who wails much, or frequently; who is in the habit of wailing: a professional wailing woman ]. Ex. هِىَ نَوَّاحَةُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ [ She is the professional wailing woman of the sons of such a one ]. (A.) ― -b2- حَمَامَةٌ نَائِحَةٌ. and ↓ نَوَّاحَةٌ, A pigeon that cooes in a plaintive or wailing manner. (L.) ― -b3- نَوَائِحُ also signifies Standards, or ensigns, opposite one to another, in battle. (L.) ― -b4- Also, Swords. In this sense, it occurs written ↓ النَّوَاحِى, by transposition. (Ks, L.)

مَنَاحَةٌ ذ A place of نَوْح [or wailing for a dead person ]: (Msb:) pl. مَنَاحَاتٌ and مَنَاوِحُ. (A, L.) Ex. كُنَّا فِى مَنَاحَةِ فُلَانٍ [ We were in the place of wailing of, or for, such a one ]. (S, K.) ― -b2- See نَائِحَةٌ.

الرِّيَاحُ المُتَنَاوِحَةُ ذ The winds called النُّكْبُ: [see نَكْبَاآءُ:] so called because they are opposite, one to another: they blow in times of drought, when rains are scanty, and when the air is dry, and the cold severe. (L.)

1 ناخَ ذ : see 10.

2 نَوَّخَ ا@للّٰهُ الأَرْضَ طَرُوقَةً لِلْمَاآءِ ذ (assumed tropical:) God made, or may God make, the land capable of receiving the water [of the rain so as to be impregnated, or fertilized, or soaked, thereby ]: expl. by جَعَلَهَا مِمَّا تُطِيقُهُ. (S.) ― -b2- See 4.

4 اناخ ذ (S, L, Msb) and ↓ نوّخ (L, Msb) He (a man) made a camel to lie down upon his breast [ with his legs folded, as is done on the occasions of mounting and dismounting, &c.] (S, L, Msb.) Also, ↓ تنوّخ (S, L, K) and اناخ (K) and ↓ استناخ (L) He (a stallion-camel) made a she-camel to do so in order that he might cover her: (S, K.) or made her do so and then covered her. (L.) ― -b2- اناخ بِهِ البَلَاآءُ وَالذُّلُّ (tropical:) [ Trial, or affliction, and abasement, befell him ]. (A.)

5 تَنَوَّخَ see 4. ― -b2- and 10.

10 اـِسْتَنْوَخَ see 4. ― -b2- Also, استناخ (S, L, Msb) and ↓ تنوّخ (L, Msb) He (a camel) lay down upon his breast [ with his legs folded ]. (S, L, Msb.) Also, استناخت and ↓ تنوّخت She (a camel) did so in order to be covered by the stallion. (K.) It is said that one should not use, in the sense of the quasi-pass. of the trans. v. اناخ, the form ↓ نَاخَ, nor ↓ اناخ: (Msb:) but the authors on verbs mention اناخ in a neuter sense; and IAar says, that one says اناخ, but not ناخ: (MF:) or IAar says, البَعِيرُ ↓ تنوّخ, but not ناخ nor اناخ: (L:) [and F says, that] one should not say, in the sense of استناخت and ↓ تنوّخت as explained above, either ناخت or اناخت. (K.)

نَوْخَةٌ ذ A remaining, staying, abiding, or dwelling, in a place. (L, K.)

نَائِخَةٌ ذ A distant land: (K:) or it is [correctly] نَائِخَةٌ, with ب. (TA.)

مَنَاخٌ ذ : see مُنَاخٌ.

مُنَاخٌ ذ A place in which camels are made to lie down upon their breasts, [ with their legs folded ]; (Msb:) a place where they so lie; (K;) a nightly resting-place of camels. (Msb, voce مُرَاحٌ) to a trad. in which it occurs, accord to one relation it is ↓ مَنَاخٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, A time at which camels so lie. (MF.) ― -b3- Also, pass. part. n. of اناخ; and used as an inf. n. of that verb, like اـِنَاخَةٌ. (MF.) ― -b4- هٰذَا مُنَاخُ سَوْءٍ (tropical:) This is a disagreeable place. (A.)

المُنِيخُ ذ The lion. (K)

1 نَارَ ذ intrans., in the sense of أَنَارَ: see the latter, in two places. -A2- نَارُوا النَّارَ: see 5. -A3- نُرْتُ البَعِيرَ (tropical:) I made a mark upon the camel with a hot iron. (M, K.) See نَارٌ.

2 نوّر ذ , intrans., in the sense of أَنَارَ, from النُّورُ: see 4, in two places. ― -b2- نوّر بِالفَجْرِ, (Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. تَنْوِيرٌ, (Msb,) He performed the prayer of daybreak when the dawn had become light (Mgh, Msb:) (tropical:) or when the horizon had become bright: (TA:) تَنْوِيرُ الفَجْرِ, without بِ is an amplification. (Mgh.) تَنْوِيرٌ as a subst. from this verb, see below. -A2- نوّر, trans. in the sense of أَنَارَ, from النُّورُ: see 4. in three places. -A3- نوّر, (S, A, Msb, K.) inf. n. تَنْوِيرٌ, (S, K,) It (a tree. S, A, Msb, K, and a plant, Msb) blossomed, or flowered it put forth its نَوْر; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ أَنَارَ, (S, Msb, K,) originally أَنْوَرَ, (TA,) See also 4. ― -b2- It (seed-produce) attained to maturity: (K:) [see an ex. in a verse cited in art. سمو, conj. 3:] تَنْوِيرٌ, the inf. n. of the verb in this sense, has a pl. تَنَاوِيرُ. (TA.) -A4- نوّرهُ He smeared him or it with نُورَة. (Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- نوّر ذِرَاعَهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَنْوِيرٌ, (TA,) He pricked his fore-arm with a needle, and then sprinkled نَوُور, [q. v.] upon it. (S, K.)

4 انار ذ , (inf. n. اـِنَارَةٌ, Msb,) It (a thing) (S, Msb) gave light; or shone; or shone brightly; (S, A, * Msb, K; *) as also ↓ نوّر, (Lh, S, * A, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَنْوِيرٌ; (S, Msb;) and ↓ استنار; (S, A, Msb, K;) and ↓ نَارَ, (A, Msb, K,) aor. يَنُورُ, (Msb,) inf. n. نَوْرٌ, (K, TA,) or نُورٌ, (as in a copy of the A,) or نِيَارٌ: (Msb;) and ↓ تنوّر: (K:) نوّر (S, * Mgh, Msb, K) and انار (Mgh, Msb) and استنار, (Msb,) said of the dawn, signify as above; (Mgh, Msb;) or its light appeared. (S, * K) ― -b2- [Hence,] الفِتْنَةُ ↓ نَارَتِ, aor. تَنُورُ, Sedition, or discord, or the like, happened and spread. (Msb.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] انار and أَنْوَرَ, (K.) the latter being the original form; said of a plant; (TA;) It became beautiful: and it became apparent. (K, TA.) And أَنْوَرَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ The tree became beautiful in its verdure: or, as some say, put forth its blossoms or flowers. (TA.) See also 2. -A2- انار and ↓ نوّر He made to give light; to shine; or to shine brightly. (Msb.) ↓ التَّنْوِيرُ and الاـِنَارَةُ signify the same. (S.) You say, انار السِّرَاجَ, and ↓ نوّرهُ, (A,) and المِصْبَاحَ ↓ نوّر, (Msb,) He made the lamp to give light; or to become bright. (Msb.) ― -b2- انار المَكَانَ He illumined, or lighted, the place; (K;) i. e., put light [or a light ] in it. (TA.) ― -b3- [Hence,] انارهُ (tropical:) He elucidated it; rendered it apparent or plainly apparent, conspicuous, manifest, or evident; (TA;) as also ↓ نورّهُ. (A, TA. *) ― -b4- And hence, انار ا@للّٰهُ بُرْهَانَهُ (tropical:) God taught him, or dictated to him, his proof. (TA.) 7:17 AM 30/01/035: see 4, first signification. -A3- تنورّوا النَّارَ مِنْ بِعِيدٍ, (S, K,) and ↓ نَارُوهَا, (K,) They looked at the fire, or endeavoured to see it (تَبَصَّرُوهَا,) from afar: (S, K:) or تنوّر النَّارَ he looked at the fire, or endeavoured to see it, (تَبَصَّرَهَا) and repaired towards it: (A:) or he came to the fire: it has this signification as well as the first. (TA.) ― -b2- تنوّر الرَّجُلَ, and المَرْأَةَ, He looked at the man, and the woman, at or by a fire, from a place where the latter did not see him; he stood in the dark to see the man, and the woman, by the light of the latter's fire, without the latter's seeing him; تَنَوُّرٌ being like تَضَوُّؤٌ. (TA.) -A4- See also 8.

8 انتار ذ , (Th, T, S, M, K,) imp. اـِنْتَرْ; (T;) and اـِنْتَوَرَ, (T, K,) imp. اـِنْتَوِرْ; (T;) and ↓ تنوّر; (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) or only انتار and انتور; not تنوّر; (T;) or some say انتار; [implying that most say تنوّر;] (S;) He smeared himself with نُورَة [which is differently explained in the lexicons, so that these verbs are made to bear different meanings by different lexicons]. (Th, T, S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K.)

10 اـِسْتَنْوَرَ see 4, first signification. -A2- استنار بِهِ He sought the aid of its light: (TA:) or of its rays. (M, K.)

نَارٌ ذ a word of which the meaning is well known; (M, K;) [ Fire; not well explained as signifying] the flaming, or blazing, (لَهِيب,) that is apparent to the sense: (TA:) its ا is originally نُوَيْرَةٌ: (S, TA:) it is fem.: (S, M, Msb:) and sometimes masc.: (AHn, M, K:) and the dim. is أَنْوَارٌ, with و because it is the original medial radical, (S,) and with ة because نار is fem.: (Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْوُرٌ, (S, M, L,) in the K أَنْوَارٌ, [which is a mistake, though this is also said to be a pl. of نار,] (TA,) and [of mult.] نِيرَانٌ [which is the most common form] (S, M, K) and نُورٌ (AAF, S, M, Msb, K) and نِيَرَةٌ and نِيَارٌ, (M, K,) and أَنْيَارٌ also occurs, in the phrase نَارُ الأَنْيَارِ, in a trad. respecting the prison of hell; this phrase, if correctly related, perhaps meaning نَارُ النِّيِرَانِ, and انيار being originally أَنْوَار. (IAth.) النَّارُ is also applied to The fire of hell. (TA:) The Arabs say, in cursing their enemies, أَبْعَدَ ا@للّٰهُ دَارَهُمْ وَأَوْقَدَ نَارًا أَثَرَهُمْ [ May God make their abode distant, and kindle a fire after them! ] And it was a custom of Arab women, as related by IAar, on the authority of El-'Okeyleeyeh, when they feared evil from a man, and he removed from them, to kindle a fire behind him, with the view of causing his evil to depart with him. (T.) ― -b2- نَارُ ا@لْمُهَوِّلِ A fire which the Arabs used to kindle, in the time of ignorance, on the occasion of entering into a confederacy: they threw into it some salt, which crackled (يُفَقِّعُ) when the fire burned it: with this they frightened [ one another ] in confirmation of the swearing. (T.) ― -b3- نَارُ الحُبَاحِبِ has been explained in art. حب. ― -b4- نَارٌ also signifies simply Heat. (TA.) ― -b5- Also, (tropical:) [The fire, meaning] the evil, and excitement, or rage, or war; as also ↓ نَائِرَةٌ. (TA.) You say, أَوْقَدَ نَارَ الحَرْبِ (tropical:) [ He kindled the fire of war ]. (A.) ― -b6- Also, (tropical:) Opinion; counsel; advice. (IAar, T, K.) So in the trad., لَا تَسْتَضِيؤُوا بِنَارِ المُشْرِكِينَ, (T,) or بنار أَهْلِ الشِّرْكِ, (K,) (tropical:) [ Seek ye not to enlighten yourselves by the counsel of the polytheists; i. e.,] seek ye not counsel of the polytheists. (IAar, T, A. *) ― -b7- Also, (tropical:) Any brand, or mark, made with a hot iron, upon a camel; (As, T, S, M, A, K;) as also ↓ نُورَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ نُورٌ: (TA:) pl. as above: (M:) or the pl. is نِيَارٌ, and the pl. of the نار that burns is نِيرَانٌ. (IAar, Th, T.) The Arabs say, مَا نَارُ هٰذِهِ النَّاقَةِ (tropical:) What is the brand, or mark, of this she-camel, with which she is burned? (T, S, A. *) And they say, in a proverb, بِجَارُهَا نَارُهَا (T, S) Their origin is indicated by their mark with which they are burned. (T.) The Rájiz says, حَتَّى سَقَوْا اآبَالَهُمْ بِالنَّارِ وَالنَّارُ قَدْ تَشْفِى مِنَ الأُوَارِ [ Until, or so that, they watered their camels because of the brand that they bore: for the fire, or the brand, sometimes cures of the heat of thirst ]: (T, S: *) he means, that, when they saw their marks with which they were burned, they left the water to them. (S. For another reading of this verse, see بِ.) See also نَجْرٌ.

نَوْرٌ ذ Blossoms, or flowers, (M, Msb, K,) of a tree, and of a plant: (Msb:) or white blossoms or flowers; the yellow being called زَهْرٌ; (M, K;) for they become white, and then become yellow: (M:) and ↓ نَوْرَةٌ and ↓ نُوَّارٌ signify the same as نَوْرٌ: (M, K:) or [rather] نَوْرٌ and نُوَّارٌ signify the same; (S, Msb;) [but the former is often used as a generic n., signifying a kind of blossom or flower: though both are coll. gen. ns.;] and نَوْرَةٌ is the n. un. of نَوْرٌ, like as تَمْرَةٌ is of تَمْرٌ; (Msb;) and نُوَّارَةٌ is the n. un. of نُوَّارٌ: (S, M, L:) and the pl. of نَوْرٌ is أَنْوَارٌ. (M, Msb, K.)

نُورٌ ذ Light; syn. ضِيَاآءٌ, (S,) or ضَوْءٌ; (M, A, Msb, K;) whatever it be; (M, A, K;) contr. of ظُلْمَةٌ: (Msb:) or the rays thereof: (M, A, K:) accord to Z, ضِيَاآءٌ [with which ضَوْءٌ is syn.] is more intense than نُورٌ: in the Kur, x. 5, the sun is termed ضياء, and the moon نور: and it is said that ضياء is essential, but نور is accidental [ light ]: (TA:) it is of two kinds, the light of the present world and that of the world to come; and the former is either perceived sensibly, by the eye, and this is what diffuses itself from luminous bodies, as the sun and moon and stars, and is mentioned in the Kur, x. 5, referred to above; or perceived by the eye of the intellect, and this is what diffuses itself of the divine lights, as the light of reason and the light of the Kur-án; of which divine light mention is made in the Kur, v., former part of verse 18, and xxiv., latter part of verse 35; and both of these in common are spoken of in the Kur, vi. 1 and xxxix. 69: that of the world to come is mentioned in the Kur in lvii. 12 [and lxvi. 8]: (B:) the pl. is أَنْوَارٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and نِيرَانٌ; (M, K;) the latter mentioned by Th: (M:) and ↓ نَوْرَانيَّةٌ signifies the same as نُورٌ. (TA.) As نور is a convenience of the pious in the present world and the world to come, it is said in the Kur, [lvii. 13,] اُنْظُرُونَا نَقْتَبِسْ مِنْ نُورِكُمْ [ Wait ye for us that we may take of your light ]. (B.) [See also ظُلَمْةٌ.] ― -b2- It is also applied to Mohammad: (T, M, K:) it is said by Aboo-Is-hak to be so applied in the Kur, v. 18. (T.) ― -b3- And That which manifests things, (K, TA,) and shows to the eyes their true or real state: and therefore النُّور is applied in the Kur, vii. 156, to (tropical:) that [ revelation ] which the Prophet brought. (TA.) ― -b4- النُّورُ is also one of the names of God; meaning, accord. to IAth, He by whose light the obscure in perception sees, and by whose guidance the erring is directed aright: or the Manifest, by whom is every manifestation. And أَللّٰهُ نُورُ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَا@لْأَرْضِ [in the Kur, xxiv. 35,] means God is the enlightener of the heavens and of the earth: like as فُلَانٌ غِيَاثُنَا means مُغِيثُنَا: (TA:) or, as some say, the right director of the inhabitants of the heavens and of the inhabitants of the earth. (T.) ― -b5- See also نَارٌ, last signification.

نَوْرَةٌ ذ : see نَوْرٌ.

نُورَةٌ ذ : see نَارٌ, last signification. -A2- I. q. هِنَاآءٌ [a word well known to mean Tar, or liquid pitch, or a kind thereof; but I do not know this signification as applying to نُورَةٌ, nor, app., did SM, for he has made it to be the same with that which here next follows, from the T]. (M, K:) or a kind of stone burned and made into كِلْس [or quick-lime ] and used as a depilatory for the pubes: (T:) or lime-stone; syn. حَجَرُ الكِلْسِ: and by a secondary and predominant application, a mixture of quick lime (كلس) with arsenic, or orpiment, (زِرْنِيخ,) and other things, used for removing hair: (Msb:) [ a depilatory composed of quick lime with a small proportion ( about an eighth part ) of orpiment: it is made into a paste with water, before application; and loosens the hair in about two minutes; after which it is immediately washed off: thus made in the present day:] some say that it is an Arabic word; and others, that it is arabicized. (Msb) See 8.

نَوْرَانِيَّةٌ ذ : see نُورٌ.

نَيِّرٌ ذ Giving light, shining, bright, or shining brightly; (A, Msb;) as also ↓ مُنِيرٌ and ↓ مُسْتَنِيرٌ (A) [and ↓ نَائِرٌ.] ― -b2- Beautiful in colour, and bright; as also ↓ مُنِيرٌ and ↓ أَنْوَرُ: (TA:) or the last signifies [simply] beautiful; (K;) or conspicuous and beautiful. (TA.) It is said of Mohammad. المُتَجَرَّدِ ↓ كَانَ أَنْوَرَ: He was beautiful and bright in the colour [ of what was unclad ] of his body. (TA.)

نَوُورٌ ذ , (S, Msb, and so in some copies of the K,) or نَؤُورٌ, (T, M, and so in some copies of the K,) or both, the former being the original form, (S, TA,) i. q. نِيلَجٌ [i. e. Indigo-pigment ]; (S, K;) or نِيلَنْجٌ; [which appears from what follows to be the right reading, though both نيلج and نيلنج are used in the present day for the purpose described in explanations of نوور, to give a greenish colour to the marks made in tatooing;] (Msb;) i. e., (so accord. to the S and Msb; but in the K, and) the smoke [meaning the smokeblack ] of fat, (IAar, T, S, M, Msb, K,) that adheres to the طَسْت, (IAar, T,) with which the punctures made in tatooing are dressed, (S, Msb,) or filled in, (M,) that they may become green; (S, Msb;) or with which the women of the Arabs of the time of ignorance tattooed themselves: (T:) i. q. غُنْجٌ [q v.]; (IAar, T:) or, accord. to to Lth, the smoke [or smoke-black ] of the wick, used as a collyrium or for tatooing; but, [says Az,] I have not heard that the women of the Arabs used this as a collyrium in the time of ignorance nor in the time of El-Islám; their using it for tatooing, however, is mentioned in their poems: (T:) or lamp-black; the black pigment (نِقْس) prepared from the smoke of the lamp; used for tattooing. (Comm. on the Mo'allakát, printed at Calcutta, p. 143.) ― -b2- Also, A kind of small stone, resembling اـِثْمِد, which is bruised, or brayed, and then taken up, like as medicine is by the lip. (M.) [The same is found in the K, excepting that, in this latter lexicon, the explanation is less full, and اللِّثَةُ is substituted for الشَّفَةُ, the reading in the M.

نُوَّارٌ ذ and نُوَّارَةٌ: see نَوْرٌ.

نَائِرٌ ذ : see نَيِّرٌ. ― -b2- (tropical:) Apparent or plainly apparent. conspicuous, manifest, or evident; as also ↓ مُنِيرٌ. (Thus the pl. fem. of each of these is explained in the TA.) ― -b3- فِتْنَةٌ نَائِرَةٌ Sedition, or discord, or the like, happening and spreading. (Msb.) ― -b4- And نَائِرَةٌ alone, Sedition, or discord, or the like: (Msb:) or sedition, or discord, or the like, happening: (TA:) and rancour, malevolence, or spite. (T:) enmity, or hostility, (T, S, A, Msb,) and violent hatred. (S, A, Msb.) See also نَارٌ. You say, سَعَيْتُ فِى اـِطْفَاآءِ النَّائِرَةِ I laboured in stilling the sedition, or discord, or the like. (Msb.) And بَيْنَهُمْ نَائِرَةٌ Between them is enmity, or hatred, and violent hatred. (A, Msb.) -A2- One who occasions evils among men. (T.)

انْوَرُ ذ : see نَيِّرٌ, in two places. ― -b2- ذَا أَنْورُ مِنْ ذَاكَ [ This is lighter, or brighter, than that ], (TA.)

تَنْوِيرٌ ذ The time when the dawn shines, or becomes light. (T, Mgh.) You say, صَلَّى الفَجْرَ فِى التَّنْوِيرِ He performed the prayer of daybreak when the dawn shone, or became light. (Mgh.) See also 2.

مَنَارٌ ذ [originally مَنْوَرٌ] A place of light; as also ↓ مَنَارَةٌ. (M. K.) ― -b2- A sign, or mark, set up to show the way: (As, T, S, M, K:) and a thing that is put as a limit or boundary between two things; (M, K;) or between two lands, (As, T,) made of mud or clay or of earth: (As, TA:) pl. مَنَاثِرُ [respecting which see مَنَارَةٌ]. (A.) It is [also used as a coll. gen. n.; as, for instance, where it is] said, in a trad., لَعَنَ ا@للّٰهُ مَنْ غَيَّرَ مَنَارَ الأَرْضِ May God curse him who alters the marks of the limit between two lands: (T, TA:) or it may mean مَنَارَ الحَرَمِ the boundary-marks of the Haram [or sacred territory of Mekkeh], which [it is said] were set up by Abraham. (T, TA. *) And it is said in another trad, اـِنَّ لِلْاـِسْلَامِ صُوًى وَمَنَارًا (tropical:) Verily there are to El-Islám signs and ordinances whereby it is known. (TA.) ― -b3- See also صَوْمَعَةٌ. ― -b4- The middle, or main part and middle, or part along which one travels, (مَحَجَّة,) of a road. (M, K.)

مُنِيرٌ ذ : see نَيِّرٌ, in two places. ― -b2- See also نَائِرٌ.

مَنَارَةٌ ذ , originally مَنْوَرَةٌ; (A, K;) see مَنَارٌ. ― -b2- A stand for a lamp; a thing upon which a lamp is put: (T, S, M, A, K;) of the measure مَفْعَلَةٌ. with fet-h (S, Msb) to the م; (S:) but by rule it should be with kesr, because it is an instrument (Msb.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses it, for the sake of metre, in the place of مِصْبَاح, in likening a bright spear-head, without rust, to a lamp. (M.) ― -b3- Also, A candle having a سِرَاج [or lighted wick ]. (T.) ― -b4- [ A pharos, or lighthouse. ] ― -b5- The mená reh [or turret of a mosque, whence the English term “ minaret, ” so written in imitation of the Turkish pronunciation,] upon which the time of prayer is proclaimed; (S, Msb:) syn. مِئْذَنَةٌ, (K, TA,) vulgarly مَأَذَنَةٌ [which is the form given in the CK]. (TA.) ― -b6- [ Any pillar-like structure. (See زُرْنُوقٌ.) ― -b7- The perch of a hawk, or falcon. (See مَرْبَأٌ.)] ― -b8- The pl. is مَنَاوِرُ and مَنَائِرُ: he who uses the latter likens the radical letter to the augmentative; (S, Msb, K;) like as they say مَصَائِبُ, which is originally مَصَاوِبُ (S, Msb.)

مُسْتَنِيرٌ ذ : see نَيِّرٌ.

1 نَاسَ ذ , aor. يَنُوسُ, (S, M, A, Msb,) inf. n. نَوْسٌ (S, M, A, K) and نَوَسَانٌ, (M, A, K,) It (a thing, S, M, as a look of hair, and an carring, A) moved to and fro; (S, A, K;) it was in a state of commotion, and moved to and fro, (M, TA,) hanging down; (TA;) it dangled, or hung down and was in a state of commotion or agitation. (M, Msb [but in the M, the verb in this last sense has only the former of the two inf. ns. assigned to it, though the other equally helongs to it.]) You say also, نَاسَ لُعَابُهُ His slaver flowed and was in a state of commotion. (M.) [See also 5]

4 اناسهُ ذ He made it to move to and fro; (S, A;) he made it to be in a state of commotion. (M, K, TA,) and to move to and fro, (M,) and to hang down; (TA;) he made it to dangle, or to hang down and be in a state of commotion or agitation. (M.) It is said in a trad. (S, M. TA.) of Umm-Zara, (S, TA,) أَنَاسَ مِنْ حُلِىٍّ أُذُنَىَّ [ He made my two ears to move to and fro, &c., with ornaments ]; (S, M, TA;) meaning, that he ornamented her two ears with [ear-rings of the kinds called] قِرَطَة and شُنُوف, which moved to and fro, &c., in them. (TA.)

5 تنوّس ذ It, (a branch of a tree,) being blown by the wind, became shaken thereby, so that it moved much to and fro; as also تنوّع (TA.) [See also 1.]

نَاسٌ ذ is applied to Men, and to jinn, or genii; (S, Msb, K;) but its predominant application is to the former: (Msb:) it is said by some to be applied to both in the former of the last two verses of the Kur, ا@لَّذِى يُوَسْوِسُ فِى صُدُورِ النَّاسِ مِنَ الجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ [ who suggesteth what is vain in the breasts of people of the jinn and mankind ]; unless by it be meant النَّاسِى [the forgetting]; or من الجنّة والناس is added in explanation of a preceding word, الوَسْوَاس, or of الذى, or it is in dependence upon يوسوس; (Bd;) [but what corroborates the first explanation is the fact that] men and jinn are both termed رِجَال in the Kur, lxxii. 6; and the Arabs used to say, رَأَيْتُ نَاسًا مِنَ الجِنِّ [ I saw people of the jinn ]: (Msb:) it is a pl. of اـِنْسٌ, (K,) originally أُنَاسٌ, (S, K,) a pl. which is rare [as to form]; (K;) or أُنَاسٌ is pl. of اـِنْسَانٌ; (M, art. أنس;) and ناس has the article ال prefixed to it, (S, M,) but not as a substitute for the suppressed ء, because, were it so, it would not be found prefixed to the original, أُنَاسٌ, whereas it is found prefixed to this latter: (S:) this derivation, however, from أُنَاسٌ, contradicts its belonging to art. نوس: (MF;) [but some hold that it does belong to this art.; and the form of its dim., to be mentioned below, favours their opinion: Fei says,] it is a noun applied to denote a pl., like قَوْمٌ and رَهْطٌ; and its sing. is اـِنْسَانٌ, from a different root: it is derived from نَاسَ, aor. يَنُوسُ, signifying “ it hung down and was in a state of commotion: ” and [agreeably with this derivation it is said that] its dim. is نُوَيْسٌ: (Msb:) some, again, said that النَّاسُ is originally النَّاسِى. (L, TA, voce اـِنْسٌ.) See also اـِنْسٌ, throughout. -A2- See also نُوَاسٌ.

[ نَاسُوتٌ ذ Human nature; humanity; as also اـِنْسَِانيَّةٌ: probably post-classical: opposed to لَاهُوتٌ, q. v., in art. ليه.]

نَوَسَاتٌ ذ : see نُوَاسٌ.

نُوَاسٌ ذ A [ lock of hair such as is called ] ذُؤَابَة, that moves to and fro: (K, in explanation of ذُو نُوَاسٍ the name of a king of El-Yemen:) or ↓ نُوَاسَةٌ has this signification: (A:) [the former, therefore, is a coll. gen. n., and this is indicated in the S; and the latter is its n. un.:] and ↓ نَوَسَاتٌ signifies i. q. ذَوَائِبُ, [pl. of ذُؤَابَةٌ,] because they move about much. (TA.) ― -b2- What hangs to the roof, (M, A, &c. [a signification assigned in the K to نَاسٌ, probably through the careless omission of the word النُّوَاسُ by an early transcriber,] consisting of smoke, (A, TA,) [or soot, ] &c. (TA,) The word in the T and O, as well as in the A [and M], is نُوَاسٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- The web of a spider: because of its fluttering. (M.)

نُوَاسَةٌ ذ : see نُوَاسٌ.

نَوَّاسٌ ذ , applied to man, (S,) Quivering (مُضْطَرِبٌ), and flaccid, or flabby. (S, K.)

نَائِسٌ ذ act. part. n. of 1. Ex. خُيُوطٌ نَائِسَةٌ Threads dangling or hanging down and moving about. (TA.)

نَاوُوسٌ ذ , (M, Msb,) or نَاؤُوسٌ, (Mgh,) Burialplaces of Christians: (M:) or a burial-place of Christians: (Mgh, Msb:) [De Sacy observes, that En-Nuweyree and El-Makreezee constantly use this word in speaking of the burial-places of the ancient kings of Egypt, and that it is from the Greek ναος : (“ Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-allatif; ” p. 508:) Freytag, on the authority of Meyd., explains it as signifying a coffin in which a corpse is enclosed: and 'Abd-el-Lateef applies the (expression نَاوُوسٌ مِنْ حَجَرٍ to the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid: (see “ Abdollatiphi Hist. Æg. Comp.; ” p. 96:)] if Arabic, (M,) of the measure فَاعُولٌ: (M, Mgh, Msb:) pl. نَوَاوِيسُ. (Mgh, TA.)

1 نَاشَهُ ذ , aor. يَنُوشُ, (S, A, Msb,) inf. n. نَوْشٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) He took it, or reached it, absolutely, or with the hand, or with the extended hand; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تناوشهُ, (A, TA,) inf. n. تَنَاوُشٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and ↓ انتاشهُ, (A, TA,) inf. n. اـِنْتِيَاشٌ: (S, K:) it is also written with ء; (A, K, TA, in art. نأش;) and so is تَنَاوُشٌ. (Msb, and K in art. نأش.) And He took him, or reached him, to seize his beard, or his head. (ISk, S.) You say, نَاشَهُ نَوْشَةً خَفِيفَةً [ He reached him with a feeble, or slight reach, with his spear or the like]. (A.) And الرِّمَاحُ تَنُوشُهُ The spears reach him: occurring in a poem of Dureyd Ibn-Es-Simmeh. (TA.) And الظِّبَاآءُ تَنُوشُ الأَرَاكَ [ The antelopes reach and take with their mouths of the trees called اراك]; as also ↓ تَنْتَاشُهُ. (A.) And النَّاقَةُ تَنُوشُ بِفِيَها الحَوْضَ [ The she-camel reaches and takes with her mouth of the water of the drinking-trough ]. (TA.) A poet says, (ISk, S,) namely, Gheylán Ibn- Horeyth Er-Raba'ee, (TA,) فَهْىَ تَنُوشُ الحَوْضَ نَوْشًا مِنْ عَلَا نَوْشًا بِهِ تَقْطَعُ أَجْوَازَ الْفَلَا And she reaches and takes of the drinking-trough, from above it, a copious draught by means of which she traverses [ the middles of the ] waterless deserts without needing other water. (S.) You say also, نُشْتُ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ شَيْئًا I obtained somewhat of the food. (TA.) And الوَصِيَّةُ نَوْشٌ مِنَ المَعْرُوفِ [ The testament is a means of an attaining of benefit ]: i. e., the testator gives [for يَتَنَاوَلُ in my original I read يُنَاوِلُ] to the legatee without diminishing his property [during his own life]. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xxxiv. 51,] مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ ↓ وَأَنَّى لَهُمُ ا@لتَّنَاوُشُ meaning, [ But how shall ] the attaining of belief [ be possible to them from a distant place, i. e.,] in the world to come, when they have disbelieved in him [namely Mohammad] in the present world? in which passage some read [التَّنَاؤُشُ,] with ء. (S.) [See art. نأش.] Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, in this instance, ↓ التناوش signifies Returning. (K, * TA.) And 'Áïsheh said of her father, الدِّينَ بِنَعْشِهِ اـِيَّاهُ ↓ فَا@نْتَاشَ And he restored the religion, and laid hold upon it and took it from the abyss into which it had fallen; [ by his exalting it; ] in which instance, also, the verb is sometimes pronounced with ء. (TA.) ― -b2- نَاشَ بِهِ, aor. as above, He clung, or clave, to him, or it. (TA.) -A2- نُشْتُهُ خَيْرًا, (Lth, S,) inf. n. نَوْشٌ, (Lth,) I made him to attain good; (Lth, S;) and شَرًّا evil. (Lth.)

3 نَاوَشُوهُمْ بِالرِّمَاحِ ذ , [inf. n. مُنَاوَشَةٌ, They reached, or thrust, them with the spears, in near, but not close, conflict, being in like manner reached, or thrust, by them, ] (A, Mgh,) is from تَنَاوُشٌ in the first of the senses assigned to it above: (Mgh:) مُنَاوَشَةٌ, in conflict, is the reaching one another [with spears or other weapons] (ISk, S, K) when the two parties are near [ but not close ]: (ISk, S, TA) and is like مُهَاوَشَةٌ, i. e., conflicting. (TA.) See also 6. ― -b2- ناوش الشَّىْءَ He mixed with [or engaged in ] the thing. (IAar.)