المهنة

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns skill, proficiency, and competence in service and work. It extends to meanings of servitude, effort, and even specific actions like milking or sexual intercourse. Derivatives also encompass notions of being lowly, weak, or insignificant.

Derived headwords

المِهْنَةnoun

1.
Skill, proficiencyboth
Skillfulness and expertise in service and work.
2.
Profession, tradeboth
A skilled occupation or trade, often involving service.

مَهَنَهُverb

1.
To serveboth
To serve someone, implying a professional or subservient role.
2.
To work hardboth
To exert effort and labor in a task.
3.
To strikeclassical
To hit or strike someone.
4.
To milkclassical
To milk camels or livestock, specifically when milking at the udder.
5.
To pullclassical
To pull or tug at a garment.
6.
To have intercourseclassical
To have sexual intercourse with a woman.

مَهَنًاnoun

1.
Service, workboth
The act or state of serving or working; labor.

مِهْنَةًnoun

1.
Service, workboth
The act or state of serving or working; labor.

امْتَهَنَهُverb

1.
To employ in serviceboth
To employ someone for a specific task or profession.
2.
To be employedboth
To be used or employed for a task or profession (passive/intransitive).

امْتَهَنَverb

1.
To be employedboth
To be used or employed for a task or profession (intransitive).

المَهِينadjective

1.
Contemptible, lowlyboth
Despicable, base, or held in low regard.
2.
Weak, feebleboth
Lacking strength or vigor.
3.
Scanty, littleboth
Small in quantity or amount.
4.
Sour milkclassical
Milk that has become stale or sour in taste.
5.
Lacking judgmentclassical
Possessing little opinion or discernment.
6.
Barren male animalclassical
A stud animal that does not impregnate.

مَهَنَadjective

1.
Lowly, weakclassical
Possessing qualities of being lowly, weak, or insignificant.

مِهَنَاءnoun

1.
Lowliness, weaknessclassical
A state of being lowly, weak, or insignificant.

المَاهِنnoun

1.
Slave, servantboth
A person who is a slave or a servant.

مَيْهَنَةname

1.
Mihna (place name)classical
A place name, specifically a town in Khurasan.

Parallel reading

الحذق بالخدمة والعمل

Skillfulness in service and work.

مهنه، كمنعه ونصره، مهنا ومهنة، ويكسر: خدمه

He served him, like 'he prevented him' and 'he helped him', with 'mahan' and 'mihnah', and with a kasra: 'he served him'.

وضربه

And he struck him.

وجهده

And he exerted effort for him.

والإبل: حلبها عند الصدر

And the camels: he milked them at the udder.

والثوب: جذبه

And the garment: he pulled it.

والمرأة: جامعها

And the woman: he had intercourse with her.

وامتهنه: استعمله للمهنة

And he employed him for the profession: he used him for the task.

فامتهن هو، لازم متعد

And he became employed, intransitive and transitive.

والمهين: الحقير

And the contemptible: the base.

والضعيف

And the weak.

والقليل

And the little.

واللبن الآجن طعمه

And the milk that is sour in taste.

والقليل الرأي والتمييز

And one with little opinion and discernment.

وفحل لا يلقح من مائه

And a stud animal that does not impregnate from its semen.

ومهن، ككرم فيهن ج: مهناء

And 'mahan', like 'karuma' (to be generous), in them are plural 'mahnaa'.

والماهن: العبد، والخادم

And the servant: the slave, and the servant.

وميهنة، بكسر الميم: ة بخابران

And Mihnah, with a kasra on the mim: a town in Khurasan.