نحت

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of carving, cutting, or shaping materials like wood or stone. It extends to concepts of reducing, diminishing, or stripping away, and metaphorically to character, nature, and even verbal abuse or sexual intercourse.

Derived headwords

نَحَتَverb

1.
to carve, sculptboth
To shape something by cutting away material, especially wood or stone.
2.
to cut intoboth
To make an incision or hollow into something.
3.
to diminish, reduceboth
To lessen or decrease something, applied to a camel or a person, making them thin or weary.
4.
to criticize, blameclassical
To speak ill of someone, to reproach or scold them.
5.
to have intercourseclassical
To engage in sexual intercourse with a woman.

نَحْتnoun

1.
carving, sculptingboth
The act or process of carving or sculpting.
2.
cuttingboth
The act of cutting or shaping.
3.
diminishingclassical
The act of reducing or diminishing.

انْتَحَتَverb

1.
to be carvedboth
To be shaped or carved, used passively for wood or stone.
2.
to be diminishedclassical
To be reduced or weakened, as a camel or person.

نَحَّاتَةnoun

1.
carvings, shavingsboth
The material that is carved away from wood or stone.
2.
sharpenerboth
A tool used for sharpening or carving.

نَحَّاتnoun

1.
carver, sculptorboth
A person who carves or sculpts, especially wood.

نَحَائتnoun

1.
wellsclassical
A type of well, likely named because they were dug or carved out.

نَحِيتadjective

1.
diminished, wearyclassical
Reduced in strength or substance, weary, applied to a camel or person.
2.
outsider, strangerclassical
Someone who is an outsider or a stranger within a group of people.
3.
worn awayclassical
Describing something whose features have been worn away, like letters.
4.
bad, inferiorclassical
Of poor quality or inferior kind.

نَحِيتَةnoun

1.
tree stumpclassical
The base of a tree that remains after it has been cut down, often hollowed out.
2.
nature, dispositionboth
The inherent nature, disposition, or character of a person, or the origin from which something is derived.

مَنْحَتnoun

1.
carving toolboth
The instrument or tool used for carving or shaping.

نَحْتverb

1.
to carveboth
To shape by cutting, as a carpenter shapes wood.

نَحْتnoun

1.
stripping, peelingclassical
The act of stripping or peeling away layers.

نَحَتَverb

1.
to cutboth
To cut into a mountain.

نَحِيتnoun

1.
tree stumpclassical
A tree stump that is hollowed out, resembling a hive for bees.

نَحَتَverb

1.
to strikeclassical
To strike someone with a stick.

نَحَتَverb

1.
to strainclassical
To make a straining sound, like during defecation.

Parallel reading

النشر والقشر.

Stripping and peeling.

نحت النجار الخشب.

The carpenter carved the wood.

نحت الخشبة ونحوها ينحتها وينحتها نحتا، فانتحتت.

He carved the wood and the like, carving it with a carving, and it became carved.

والنحاتة: ما نحت من الخشب.

And the shavings: what is carved from the wood.

ونحت الجبل ينحته: قطعه، وهو من ذلك.

And he carved the mountain, he carved it: he cut it, and it is from that.

وتنحتون من الجبال بيوتا فارهين [آمنين].

And you carve out houses from the mountains, being skillful [secure].

والنحائت: آبار معروفة، صفة غالبة لأنها نحتت أي قطعت؛

And the Naḥā'it: known wells, a dominant description because they were carved, meaning cut;

ونحت السفر البعير والإنسان: نقصه، وأرقه على التشبيه.

And the hardship of travel diminished the camel and the person: it reduced them, and made them weary by analogy.

وجمل نحيت: انتحتت مناسمه؛

And a weary camel: its humps have become diminished;

والنحيتة: جذم شجرة ينحت، فيجوف كهيئة الحب للنحل، والجمع نحت.

And the Naḥītah: a tree stump that is carved, and hollowed out like a hive for bees, and the plural is Naḥt.

نحته ينحته، بالكسر، نحتا أي براه.

He carved it, he carved it, with a kasra, a carving, meaning he shaped it.

والمنحت: ما ينحت به.

And the Minḥat: what is carved with.

والنحيت: الدخيل في القوم؛

And the Naḥīt: the outsider among the people;

والحافر النحيت: الذي ذهبت حروفه.

And the worn-away hoof: that whose markings have disappeared.

والنحيتة: الطبيعة التي نحت عليها الإنسان أي قطع، وقال اللحياني: هي الطبيعة والأصل.

And the Naḥītah: the nature upon which a person is formed, meaning cut, and Al-Laythiyānī said: it is the nature and the origin.

وإنك لكريم الطبيعة والنحيتة والغريزة، بمعنى واحد.

And indeed you are noble in nature, disposition, and instinct, meaning one thing.

ونحته بلسانه ينحته وينحته نحتا: لامه وشتمه.

And he reproached him with his tongue, he reproached him and reproached him with reproach: he blamed him and cursed him.

والنحيت: الرديء من كل شيء.

And the Naḥīt: the bad of everything.

ونحته بالعصا، ينحته نحتا: ضربه بها،

And he struck him with the stick, he struck him with a strike: he hit him with it,

ونحت ينحت نحيتا: زحر.

And he strained, he strained with a straining: he grunted.

ونحت المرأة ينحتها: نكحها، والأعرف لحتها.

And he had intercourse with the woman, he had intercourse with her: he had intercourse with her, and more commonly 'laḥathahā'.