نوط

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

The root نوط (n-w-ṭ) primarily relates to the concept of hanging, suspending, or attaching something. This extends to objects that are hung, such as ornaments or straps, and also to abstract notions like distance or connection. It can also refer to specific anatomical parts or geographical features.

Derived headwords

نَاطَverb

1.
to hang, suspendboth
To cause something to hang or be suspended from a higher point.

ناط الشيء ينوطه نوطا: علقه — He hung the thing, hanging it a hanging.

نَوْطnoun

1.
hanging, suspensionboth
The act or state of being hung or suspended, used as a verbal noun.
2.
what is hungboth
An object that is hung or suspended, named after the action.
3.
area between rump and backclassical
The region of a camel or other animal located between its hindquarters and its back.
4.
small date clusterboth
A small cluster of dates or similar fruit.

والنوط: ما بين العجز والمتن — And the nawt: what is between the rump and the back.

والأنواط: المعاليق — And the anwat: the hangings.

والنوط: ما علق، سمي بالمصدر — And the nawt: what is hung, named after the verbal noun.

مَنَاطnoun

1.
place of suspensionboth
The point or place from which something is hung or suspended.
2.
reason, basisboth
The ground, basis, or reason for something; the point of attachment or connection.
3.
distanceclassical
A great distance, as in the phrase 'in the distance of the Pleiades'.

وهو مني مناط الثريا أي في البعد — And it is from me the manat of the Pleiades, meaning in distance.

انْتَاطَverb

1.
to cling to, attach oneself toboth
To attach oneself to something or someone, to cling.
2.
to become distantclassical
To become distant or far away.

وانتاط به تعلق — And intaat bihi: he clung to it.

إذا انتاطت المغازي أي إذا بعدت — When the campaigns became distant, meaning when they became far.

أَنْوَاطnoun

1.
hangings, ornamentsboth
Plural of نوط (nawt), referring to things that are hung, such as ornaments or decorations.
2.
high places, heightsclassical
The high places or lofty positions.
3.
loads hung on a camelclassical
Things hung upon a camel when it is loaded.

والأنواط: المعاليق — And the anwat: the hangings.

والأنواط: ما نيط على البعير إذا أوقر — And the anwat: what is hung on the camel when it is loaded.

تِنْوَاطnoun

1.
ornament for a howdahclassical
What is hung from a howdah (a seat on a camel's back) for decoration.

نِيطَverb

1.
was hung, was suspendedboth
Passive form of ناط (naṭa), meaning something was hung or suspended.
2.
was connected, was joinedboth
Was connected or joined to something else.

نيط عليه الشيء علق عليه — The thing was hung upon him, it was hung upon him.

أري الليلة رجل صالح أن أبا بكر نيط برسول الله — A righteous man saw in a dream tonight that Abu Bakr was attached to the Messenger of God.

مَنُوطadjective

1.
hung, suspendedboth
Something that is hung or suspended.
2.
connected, attachedboth
Connected or attached to something.
3.
wavering, uncertainclassical
Someone who is wavering or uncertain, like a spurious descendant.

والمتعلق بها كالنوط المذبذب — And the one attached to it is like the wavering nawt.

ورجل منوط بالقوم: ليس من مصاصهم — And a man attached to the people: not from their elite.

نِيَاطnoun

1.
hanging strap, cordboth
A strap or cord used for hanging something, like a bow or a waterskin.
2.
heartclassical
The heart.
3.
major arteryclassical
A major artery connected to the heart, the severing of which causes death.
4.
great distanceclassical
A great distance, especially of a desert or plain.
5.
plural of نوط (date cluster)both
Plural of نوط (nawt), referring to date clusters.

ونياط كل شيء: معلقه كنياط القوس والقربة — And the niyat of everything: its hanging part, like the niyat of a bow and a waterskin.

والنياط: الفؤاد — And the niyat: the heart.

ونياط المفازة: بعد طريقها — And the niyat of the desert: its long distance.

نَائِطnoun

1.
artery in the spineclassical
An artery located within the spine, beneath the back.

نائط المصفور — The na'it of the one with yellow fluid in his stomach.

نَوْطَةnoun

1.
crop (bird's)classical
The crop of a bird, like a dove.
2.
swellingclassical
A swelling, particularly in the chest or neck of a camel.
3.
grudge, maliceclassical
Grudge or malice.
4.
patch of treesboth
A patch of trees, especially acacias, or a place with specific shrubs.
5.
elevated placeboth
An elevated place, not a large valley or hill.

للماء في النحر منها نوطة عجب — For water in its throat, there is a wondrous notah.

ولا علم لي ما نوطة مستكنة — And I have no knowledge of what a hidden notah is.

تَنَوُّطnoun

1.
type of birdclassical
A type of bird, similar to a qariyah, that builds its nest precariously on branches.

وتقطع أعناق التنوط بالضحى — And the necks of the tanawut are cut in the morning.

ذَات أَنْوَاطname

1.
a specific treeclassical
A specific tree, a type of acacia, that was worshipped by pagans who hung their weapons on it.

اجعل لنا ذات أنواط — Make for us a Dhat Anwat.

نَاطَهُverb

1.
to connect it to himboth
To connect or attach something to someone.

نَاطَتْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ بِهِ أَنُوطُهُ — I connected this matter to him, I connect it.

مُنَاطadjective

1.
connected, attachedboth
Connected or attached to something.

نِيَاطَةnoun

1.
swellingclassical
A swelling, particularly in the throat or chest of a camel.

وبعير منوط وقد نيط له — And a camel is attached, and a swelling has occurred for it.

نِيَاطَةnoun

1.
elevated placeboth
An elevated place, not a large valley or hill.

نِيَاطnoun

1.
a type of wellclassical
A well from which water flows from the side and seeps into the bottom, rather than being drawn from the bottom.

بئر نيط إذا حفرت فأتى الماء من جانب منها فسال إلى قعرها — A well is niyt if it is dug and water comes from one side of it and flows to its bottom.

تَنَوُّطverb

1.
to hang, suspendboth
To hang or suspend something.

انْتَاطَverb

1.
to originate, to be derivedclassical
To originate from or be derived from a source.

ولكن ألفا قد تجهز غاديا، ... بحوران، منتاط المحل غريب — But a thousand have prepared to go forth tomorrow, in Ḥawrān, a stranger from a place of origin.

نِيَطnoun

1.
a swellingclassical
A swelling, particularly a gland that affects a camel and can kill it.

فهو منوط إذا أصابه النوط، وهي غدة تصيبه في بطنه فتقتله — So it is manūt if it is afflicted by the nawt, which is a gland that affects it in its belly and kills it.

Parallel reading

ناط الشيء ينوطه نوطا: علقه.

He hung the thing, hanging it a hanging.

والنوط: ما علق، سمي بالمصدر.

And the nawt: what is hung, named after the verbal noun.

وقالوا: هو مني مناط الثريا أي في البعد.

And they said: it is from me the manat of the Pleiades, meaning in distance.

وانتاط به تعلق.

And he clung to it, he attached himself to it.

والأنواط: المعاليق.

And the anwat: the hangings.

وفي المثل «2»: عاط بغير أنواط أي يتناول وليس هناك شيء معلق.

And in the proverb: he gave without anwat, meaning he took without anything being hung.

والأنواط: ما نيط على البعير إذا أوقر.

And the anwat: what is hung on the camel when it is loaded.

والتنواط: ما يعلق من الهودج يزين به.

And the tinwat: what is hung from the howdah to adorn it.

بلاد بها نيطت علي تمائمي، ... وأول أرض مس جلدي ترابها

Lands where my amulets were hung upon me, ... And the first land whose dust touched my skin.

والله ما أخذناه إلا عفوا بلا سوط ولا نوط أي بلا ضرب ولا تعليق.

By God, we did not take it except by forgiveness, without a whip and without a nawt, meaning without beating and without hanging.

المتعلق بها كالنوط المذبذب ؛ أراد ما يناط برحل الراكب من قعب أو غيره فهو أبدا يتحرك.

The one attached to it is like the wavering nawt; he meant what is hung on the rider's saddle from a pail or other thing, it is always moving.

أري الليلة رجل صالح أن أبا بكر نيط برسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم ، أي علق.

A righteous man saw in a dream tonight that Abu Bakr was attached to the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, meaning hung.

قال لحفار البئر: أخسفت أم أوشلت؟ فقال: لا واحد منهما ولكن نيطا بين الأمرين أي وسطا بين القليل والكثير، كأنه معلق بينهما.

He said to the well digger: Did you dig deep or find little water? He said: Neither, but it was niṭa between the two matters, meaning in the middle between little and much, as if it were suspended between them.

ونياط كل شيء: معلقه كنياط القوس والقربة.

And the niyat of everything: its hanging part, like the niyat of a bow and a waterskin.

ونياط القوس: معلقها.

And the niyat of the bow: its hanging part.

والنياط: الفؤاد.

And the niyat: the heart.

والنياط: عرق علق به القلب من الوتين، فإذا قطع مات صاحبه، وهو النيط أيضا؛ ومنه قولهم: رماه الله بالنيط أي بالموت.

And the niyat: an artery to which the heart is attached from the aorta, so if it is cut, its owner dies, and it is also the niyat; and from this is their saying: May God strike him with the niyat, meaning death.

ونياط القلب: عرق غليظ نيط به القلب إلى الوتين، والجمع أنوطة ونوط.

And the niyat of the heart: a thick artery to which the heart is attached to the aorta, and the plural is anwat and nawt.

والنياط والنائط: عرق مستبطن الصلب تحت المتن، وقيل: عرق في الصلب ممتد يعالج المصفور بقطعه.

And the niyat and the na'it: an artery within the spine beneath the back, and it is said: an artery extending in the spine that is treated by cutting it for the one with yellow fluid.

وبلده بعيدة النياط، ... مجهولة تغتال خطو الخاطي

And a land far in its niyat, ... unknown, that deceives the steps of the sinner.

إذا انتاطت المغازي أي إذا بعدت وهو من نياط المفازة وهو بعدها.

When the campaigns became distant, meaning when they became far, and it is from the niyat of the desert, which is its distance.

وانتاطت الدار بعدت.

And the dwelling became distant.

عليك بصاحبك الأقدم فإنك تجده على مودة واحدة وإن قدم العهد وانتاطت الدار.

Stick to your old companion, for you will find him with one affection, even if the time is long and the dwelling has become distant.

ولكن ألفا قد تجهز غاديا، ... بحوران، منتاط المحل غريب

But a thousand have prepared to go forth tomorrow, in Ḥawrān, a stranger from a place of origin.

والنيط من الآبار: التي يجري ماؤها معلقا ينحدر من أجوالها إلى مجمها.

And the nayṭ from the wells: those whose water flows suspended, descending from their upper parts to their collection point.

بئر نيط إذا حفرت فأتى الماء من جانب منها فسال إلى قعرها ولم تعن من قعرها بشيء.

A well is niyt if it is dug and water comes from one side of it and flows to its bottom, and it is not drawn from its bottom.

لا تستقي دلاؤها من نيط، ... ولا بعيد قعرها مخروط

Its buckets do not draw from a nayṭ, ... nor is its bottom far and conical.

وانتاط الشيء: اقتضبه برأيه من غير مشورة.

And he originated the matter: he devised it with his opinion without consultation.

والنوط: الجلة الصغيرة فيها التمر ونحوه، والجمع أنواط ونياط.

And the nawt: the small cluster containing dates and the like, and the plural is anwat and niyat.

فأهدوا له نوطا من تعضوض هجر أي أهدوا له جلة صغيرة من تمر التعضوض.

So they gifted him a nawt of Ta'ḍūḍ of Hajar, meaning they gifted him a small cluster of Ta'ḍūḍ dates.

أطعمنا من بقية القوس الذي في نوطك.

Feed us from the remainder of the bow that is in your nawt.

إن ضج فزده وقرا، وإن أعيا فزده نوطا، وإن جرجر فزده ثقلا.

If he complains, add a burden to him; if he is exhausted, add a nawt to him; if he groans, add weight to him.

ويقال للدعي ينتمي إلى قوم: منوط مذبذب؛ سمي مذبذبا لأنه لا يدري إلى من ينتمي فالريح تذبذبه يمينا وشمالا.

And a spurious claimant to a people is called manūt, wavering; he is called wavering because he does not know to whom he belongs, so the wind wavers him right and left.

ورجل منوط بالقوم: ليس من مصاصهم.

And a man attached to the people: not from their elite.

وأنت دعي نيط في آل هاشم، ... كما نيط خلف الراكب القدح الفرد

And you are a spurious claimant attached to the family of Hashim, ... like the single cup attached behind the rider.

للماء في النحر منها نوطة عجب

For water in its throat, there is a wondrous notah.

ولا علم لي ما نوطة مستكنة، ... ولا أي من فارقت أسقي سقائيا

And I have no knowledge of what a hidden notah is, ... nor which of those I left behind I would water with my waterskin.

ويقال للبعير إذا ورم نحره وأرفاغه: نيطت له نوطة، وبعير منوط وقد نيط له وبه نوطة إذا كان في حلقه ورم.

And it is said of a camel when its neck and flanks swell: a notah has occurred for it, and a camel is manūt and has had a notah occur for it, and has a notah if there is a swelling in its throat.

وفي الحديث : بعير له قد نيط.

And in the hadith: a camel of his has been afflicted with nawt.

يقال: نيط الجمل، فهو منوط إذا أصابه النوط، وهي غدة تصيبه في بطنه فتقتله.

It is said: the camel is niṭ, and it is manūt if it is afflicted with nawt, which is a gland that affects it in its belly and kills it.

والنوطة: ما ينصب من الرحاب من البلد الظاهر الذي به الغضا.

And the notah: what is erected from the open lands of the apparent country where there is ghada.

والنوطة: الأرض يكثر بها الطلح، وليست بواحدة، وربما كانت فيه نياط تجتمع جماعات منه ينقطع أعلاها وأسفلها.

And the notah: land where acacia is abundant, and it is not singular, and perhaps in it are niyat where groups gather from it, their tops and bottoms cut off.

والنوطة ليست بواد ضخم ولا بتلعة هي بينهما.

And the notah is not a large valley nor a stream, it is between them.

والنوطة: المكان في وسطه شجر، وقيل: مكان فيه طرفاء خاصة.

And the notah: the place with trees in its middle, and it is said: a place with specific tamarisks.

والنوطة: الموضع المرتفع عن الماء؛ عن ابن الأعرابي.

And the notah: the place elevated from the water; according to Ibn al-A'rabi.

وإنا لبنوطة فجاء بجار الضبع أي بسيل يجر الضبع من كثرته.

And we were in a nutah, and a stream came carrying the hyena, meaning a flood that dragged the hyena due to its abundance.

والتنوط والتنوط: طائر نحو القارية سوادا تركب عشها بين عودين أو على عود واحد فتطيل عشها فلا يصل الرجل إلى بيضها حتى يدخل يده إلى المنكب.

And the tanawwut and the tanawwut: a bird like the qariyah, black, that builds its nest between two branches or on one branch and lengthens its nest so that a man cannot reach its eggs until he puts his hand up to his shoulder.

تقطع أعناق التنوط بالضحى، ... وتفرس في الظلماء أفعى الأجارع

The necks of the tanawut are cut in the morning, ... and the vipers of the plains are hunted in the darkness.

إنما سمي تنوطا لأنه يدلي خيوطا من شجرة ثم يفرخ فيها.

It is only called tanawut because it dangles threads from a tree and then nests in them.

ذات أنواط: شجرة كانت تعبد في الجاهلية، وفي الحديث : اجعل لنا ذات أنواط ، قال ابن الأثير: هي اسم سمرة بعينها كانت للمشركين ينوطون بها سلاحهم أي يعلقونه بها ويعكفون حولها، فسألوه أن يجعل لهم مثلها فنهاهم عن ذلك.

Dhat Anwat: a tree that was worshipped in the Jahiliyyah, and in the hadith: Make for us a Dhat Anwat. Ibn al-Athir said: It is the name of a specific samrah tree that the polytheists used to hang their weapons on, meaning they would hang them on it and circumambulate around it, so they asked him to make one for them like it, and he forbade them from that.

وفي الحديث: أنه أبصر في بعض أسفاره شجرة دفواء تسمى ذات أنواط.

And in the hadith: he saw on one of his journeys a sprawling tree called Dhat Anwat.

ويقال: نوطة من طلح كما يقال عيص من سدر وأيكة من أثل وفرش من عرفط ووهط من عشر وغال من سلم وسليل من سمر وقصيمة من غضا ومن رمث وصريمة من غضا ومن سلم وحرجة من شجر.

And it is said: a notah of acacia, just as it is said: a thicket of lote, and a grove of tamarisk, and a patch of 'urfut, and a low-lying area of 'ashar, and a valley of salm, and a ravine of samr, and a small clump of ghada and ramth, and a small patch of ghada and salm, and a dense area of trees.

والمدات الثلاث منوطات بالهمز، ولذلك قال بعض العرب في الوقوف: افعلئ افعلأ افعلؤ، فهمزوا الألف والياء والواو حين وقفوا.

And the three lengthened vowels are manutat with hamza, and therefore some Arabs said when stopping: if'alaa, if'alaa, if'aluu, so they hamzated the alif, ya, and waw when they stopped.