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Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of spreading or disseminating information, particularly news. It also encompasses the concepts of backbiting and expressing disdain or aversion towards something.

Derived headwords

نَثَاverb
  1. 1.
    to spread newsboth

    To disseminate or spread information, especially news or rumors.

نَثْوverb
  1. 1.
    to spread newsclassical

    To spread or disseminate news; this is a variant form of the verb 'natha'.

أَنْثَىverb
  1. 1.
    to backbiteclassical

    To speak ill of someone in their absence; to engage in slander or gossip.

  2. 2.
    to disdainclassical

    To feel aversion or disdain towards something; to be repulsed by it.

Parallel reading

نَثِيتَ الخبرَ: نَثَوْتُهُ.
You spread the news: I spread it.
أنثى: اغتاب
Antha: to backbite
أنف من الشيء
He disdained the thing.