ن وط

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

The root ن وط (n-w-ṭ) primarily relates to the concept of hanging, suspending, or attaching something. This extends to meanings of being attached, dependent, or even distant. It also encompasses related physical objects like straps, cords, and specific anatomical parts, as well as abstract concepts like distance and determination.

Derived headwords

نَاطَهُverb

1.
to hang itboth
To suspend or attach something to another object.

نَوْطnoun

1.
hanging, suspensionboth
The act or state of being hung or suspended.
2.
strap, cordclassical
A strap or cord used for hanging something.
3.
small bag of datesclassical
A small bag containing dates or similar items, hung from a camel.

انْتَاطَverb

1.
to be attached toboth
To be attached or clung to something.
2.
to be distantclassical
To be far away or remote.
3.
to decide independentlyclassical
To decide or act based on one's own opinion, without consultation.

انْتَاطَتِ الدَّارُverb

1.
the house became distantclassical
Figuratively, the house became remote or far away.

انْتَاطَتِ الْمَغَازِيverb

1.
the expeditions became distantclassical
Figuratively, the military expeditions became remote or far off.

أَنْوَاطnoun

1.
hangings, ornamentsclassical
Plural of نوط, referring to things that are hung or suspended, often for decoration.

نِيَاطnoun

1.
heartclassical
The heart, considered as a vital organ.
2.
constellationsclassical
Two stars located between the heart of Scorpio.
3.
strap, hanging partclassical
The hanging part of a bow or waterskin.
4.
thick veinclassical
A thick vein to which the heart is attached, connected to the aorta.
5.
distance of a desertclassical
The remoteness or distance of a desert path.

نَاطَ القِرْبَةُverb

1.
the waterskin was hungboth
The waterskin was hung by its strap.

نَائِطnoun

1.
vein in the heartclassical
A vein extending within the heart or along the spine.

نِيَاطُ الْمَصْفُورِnoun

1.
the vein of the afflictedclassical
Refers to a vein in a person suffering from dropsy, which is cut for treatment.

نِيَاطُ الْكِلَابِnoun

1.
the dogs' veinsclassical
Figuratively refers to the speed of a rabbit, implying it runs so fast it could sever the veins of pursuing dogs.

نَيْطnoun

1.
well with hanging waterclassical
A well whose water flows down its sides to the bottom.

نَوْطَةnoun

1.
gizzard, cropclassical
The gizzard or crop of a bird.
2.
swelling on a camelclassical
A swelling or tumor on the chest or flanks of a camel.
3.
elevated landclassical
An elevated area of land, often with sparse vegetation.
4.
hatred, grudgeclassical
A feeling of hatred or resentment.

تَنْوَاطnoun

1.
ornaments for a litterclassical
Decorative items hung from a camel litter (howdah).
2.
a type of birdclassical
A bird known for building a long nest suspended from branches.

مَنَاطnoun

1.
place of hangingboth
The place where something is hung or suspended.
2.
distant pointclassical
Figuratively, a distant point or level, like the Pleiades.

مَنُوطadjective

1.
attached, dependentboth
Something that is hung, attached, or dependent on something else.
2.
adopted, spuriousclassical
Figuratively, someone who is an adopted or spurious member of a family or group.

اسْتَنَاطَverb

1.
to send a camel for loadingclassical
To send one's camel with traders to be loaded with goods.

تَنَوَّطَverb

1.
to make heavyclassical
To make a waterskin heavy by filling it with liquid for easier handling.

ذَاتُ أَنْوَاطname

1.
Dhat Anwatclassical
A specific tree worshipped by pagans in the pre-Islamic era, to which they would hang their weapons.

نَائِطَةnoun

1.
gizzard, cropclassical
The gizzard or crop of a bird.

نِيَاطَةnoun

1.
middle groundclassical
The middle point or state between two things, like a moderate amount of water.

Parallel reading

ناطه ينوطه نوطا: علقه.

He hung it, he hangs it, a hanging: he suspended it.

والنوط: التعليق.

And al-nawṭ: the suspension.

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

We did not take it except as booty, without a whip or a hanging, meaning without beating or suspension.

وانتاط به الشيء: تعلق.

And the thing became attached to him: it clung.

انتاطت الدار، أي بعدت، عن ابن الأعرابي.

The house became distant, meaning it became remote, according to Ibn al-A'rabi.

وإن قدم العهد، وانتاطت الدار، واياك وكل مستحدث، فإنه يأكل مع كل قوم، ويجري مع كل ريح

And if the time is long, and the house becomes distant, beware of everything new, for it eats with every people and runs with every wind.

إذا انتاطت المغازي أي بعدت وهو من نياط المفازة هو بعدها

When the expeditions became distant, meaning they became remote, and it is from the distance of the desert, which is its remoteness.

والأنواط: المعاليق، نقله الجوهري، قال: ومنه المثل: عاط بغير أنواط أي يتناول وليس هناك شيء معلق

And al-anwāṭ: the hangings, as transmitted by Al-Jauhari. He said: And from it is the proverb: He reached without hangings, meaning he reaches for something when there is nothing hanging.

والنياط: الفؤاد.

And al-niyāṭ: the heart.

والنياط: كوكبان بينهما قلب العقرب، نقله الصاغاني، وهو مجاز.

And al-niyāṭ: two stars between them is the heart of the Scorpion, as transmitted by Al-Saghani, and it is a metaphor.

ومن المجاز: النياط من المفازة: بعد طريقها كأنها نيطت بمفازة أخرى لا تكاد تنقطع.

And from metaphor: Al-niyāṭ from the desert: the remoteness of its path as if it were hung to another desert that can hardly be cut off.

وبلدة بعيدة النياط مجهولة تغتال خطو الخاطي

And a land whose distance is remote, unknown, that deceives the steps of the sinner.

والنياط من القوس والقربة: معلقهما.

And al-niyāṭ from the bow and the waterskin: their hanging straps.

نطت القربة بنياطها نوطا.

The waterskin was hung by its strap, a hanging.

أو النياط: عرق غليظ نيط به القلب، أي علق إلى الوتين، فإذا قطع مات صاحبه.

Or al-niyāṭ: a thick vein to which the heart is attached, meaning it is hung to the aorta, so if it is cut, its owner dies.

ج: أنوطة. وإذا لم ترد العدد جاز أن يقال للجمع: نوط، بالضم، لأن الياء التي في النياط واو في الأصل، وقيل: هما نياطان، فالأعلى: نياط الفؤاد والأسفل: الفرج.

Plural: anūṭah. And if the number is not intended, it is permissible to say for the plural: nawṭ, with damma, because the ya' in niyāṭ was originally waw, and it was said: they are two niyāṭs, the upper one: the niyāṭ of the heart, and the lower one: the vulva.

والنائط: عرق ممتد في القلب، كذا في النسخ، وصوابه في الصلب، كما في الصحاح.

And al-nā'iṭ: a vein extending in the heart, as in the manuscripts, and its correction is in the spine, as in Al-Ṣiḥāḥ.

فبج كل عاند نعور قضب الطبيب نائط المصفور

So every stubborn, rebellious one was broken; the doctor cut the vein of the afflicted one.

ومن المجاز: يقال للأرنب: المقطعة النياط كما قالوا: مقطعة الأسحار تفاؤلا، أي نياطها يقطع، هذا على قول من رواه بفتح الطاء.

And from metaphor: The rabbit is called: the severer of veins, as they said: the severer of dawns, as an omen, meaning its veins are severed, this is according to those who narrated it with a fatḥa on the ṭā'.

والنيط كسيد: بئر يجري ماؤها معلقا ينحدر من جوانبها إلى مجمها.

And al-nayṭ, like sayyid: a well whose water flows suspended, descending from its sides to its bottom.

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

A nayṭ well: if it is dug and water comes from one side of it and flows to its bottom without being drawn from its bottom with anything.

لا تستقي دلاؤها من نيط ولا بعيد قعرها مخروط

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

والنوط: العلاوة بين عدلين، وهو قول أبي عبيدة، نصه: العلاوة بين الفردين، وقال الزمخشري: سميت العلاوة نوطا لأنها تناط بالوقر.

And al-nawṭ: the yoke between two panniers, and this is the saying of Abu Ubaidah, his text: the yoke between the two individuals, and Al-Zamakhshari said: the yoke is called nawṭ because it is hung to the load.

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

And the one attached to it is like a wavering nawṭ, meaning what is hung to the rider's saddle from a pail or other, it is always moving.

والنوط: الجلة الصغيرة فيها التمر ونحوه تعلق من البعير، نقله الجوهري

And al-nawṭ: the small bag containing dates and the like, hung from a camel, as transmitted by Al-Jauhari.

للماء في النحر منها نوطة عجب

For water in its chest, there is a wondrous nawṭah.

وأن تسمع البحرانيين يسمون الجلال الصغار التي تعلق بعراها من أقتاب الحمولة: نياطا، واحدها نوط.

And to hear the Bahrainis call the small packs that are hung by their straps from the loads of the حملة: niyāṭan, singular nawṭ.

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

So they presented him with a nawṭ of Ta'ḍūḍ Hajar, meaning they presented him with a small bag of Ta'ḍūḍ dates.

إن أعيا البعير فزده نوطا.

If the camel tires, add a nawṭ to it.

والنوطة، بهاء: الحوصلة.

And al-nawṭah, with ḥa': the gizzard.

نيط البعير، إذا أصابه ذلك، كما في الصحاح.

The camel was afflicted, if that befell it, as in Al-Ṣiḥāḥ.

وأناط البعير: أصابه ذلك.

And the camel was afflicted: that befell it.

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

And al-nawṭah: land where the talḥ tree is abundant and not singular, and perhaps in it are niyāṭ (clusters) of it, groups gathering, their tops and bottoms cut off.

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

And we were in a nawṭah, so a torrent came carrying the hyena, meaning a flood that dragged the hyena due to its abundance.

والنوطة: ما بين العجز والمتن، وهو النوط، كما في الصحاح.

And al-nawṭah: what is between the rump and the back, and it is al-nawṭ, as in Al-Ṣiḥāḥ.

والتنواط بالفتح: ما يعلق من الهودج يزين به.

And al-tanwāṭ with fatḥa: what is hung from the howdah for decoration.

هذا مني مناط الثريا، أي في البعد، قال سيبويه وهو مجاز.

This is from me the place of hanging of the Pleiades, meaning in distance, said Sibawayh, and it is a metaphor.

بنو فلان مناط الثريا لشرفهم وعلوهم.

The sons of so-and-so are the place of hanging of the Pleiades due to their honor and high status.

وهذا رجل منوط بالقوم: دخيل فيهم وليس من مصاصهم، أو دعي

And this is a man attached to the people: an intruder among them and not from their core, or an adopted one.

وأنت دعي نيط في آل هاشم كما ييط خلف الراكب القدح الفرد

And you are an adopted one, hung among the family of Hashim, as the single cup is hung behind the rider.

منوط مذبذب سمي مذبذبا لأنه لا يدري إلى من ينتمي، فالريح تذبذبه يمينا وشمالا.

A wavering manūṭ, called wavering because he does not know to whom he belongs, so the wind wavers him right and left.

والنيطة، ككيسة: البعير ترسله مع الممتارين ليحمل لك عليه

And al-nayṭah, like kaysah: a camel you send with traders to carry for you.

وقد استناط فلان بعيره فلانا، فانتاط هو له، قاله أبو عمر و.

And so-and-so sent his camel with so-and-so, and it became attached for him, said Abu Amr.

والتنوط، كالتكرم، كذا ضبط في نسخة الصحاح. ويقال أيضا التنوط بضم التاء وفتح النون وكسر الواو، نقله الجوهري أيضا: 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 al-tanawwuṭ, like takarrum, as it is noted in the manuscript of Al-Ṣiḥāḥ. And it is also said al-tanawwuṭ with damma on the ṭā', fatḥa on the nūn, and kasra on the waw, as transmitted by Al-Jauhari: a bird, black like the qāriyah, builds its nest between two sticks or on one stick, 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

They sever the necks of the tanawwuṭ at noon and hunt snakes in the dark of the pastures.

ونوط القربة تنويطا: أثقلها ليدهنا، عن ابن عباد.

And the nawṭ of the waterskin, tanwīṭan: to make it heavy for easier handling, from Ibn Abbad.

والأنواط: ما نيط على البعير إذا أوقر.

And al-anwāṭ: what is hung on a camel when it is loaded.

نيط عليه الشيء، أي علق عليه.

Something was hung on him, meaning it was attached to him.

بلاد بها نيطت علي تمائمي وأول أرض مس جلدي ترابها

Lands where my amulets were hung on me, and the first earth whose dust touched my skin.

ونيط به الشيء: وصل به.

And something was connected to him: it reached him.

والنيط كسيد: الوسط بين الأمرين.

And al-nayṭ, like sayyid: the middle between the two matters.

لا واحد منهما ولكن نيطا بين الماءين، أي وسطا بين الغزير والقليل كأنه معلق بينهما.

Neither one nor the other, but rather nayṭan between the two waters, meaning a middle ground between abundant and scarce, as if it were suspended between them.

وانتطت المفازة: بعدت، وهو على القلب من انتاطت

And the desert became distant: it became remote, and it is an inversion from intāṭat.

وبلدة نياطها - نطي أراد نيط فقلب، كما قالوا في جمع قوس: قسي.

And a land whose distance is niyāṭ - nayṭ, meaning niyṭ and it was inverted, as they said for the plural of qaws: qisiyy.

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

And al-nawṭah: what is erected from the open lands where the ghada' shrub is.

وذات أنواط: شجرة كانت تعبد في الجاهلية. نقله الجوهري.

And Dhāt Anwāṭ: a tree that was worshipped in the pre-Islamic era. Transmitted by Al-Jauhari.

هي اسم سمرة بعينها كانت للمشركين ينوطون بها سلاحهم أي يعلقون ويعكفون حولها.

It is the name of a specific samrah tree that the polytheists used to hang their weapons on, meaning they would hang them and circumambulate around it.

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 غضى، ومن رمث، وصريمة من غضى، ومن سلم، وحرجة من شجر، انتهى.

And it is said: a nawṭah of talḥ, as it is said: an 'ayṣ of sidr, an āyikah of athl, a farsh of 'urfūṭ, a wahṭ of 'ishr, a ghāl of sallam, a salīl of samr, a qaṣīmah of ghaḍā, and of ramth, a ṣarīmah of ghaḍā, and of sallam, and a ḥarajah of trees, ended.

ويقال: عرق مناط عذاره.

And it is said: a vein from which its bridle is hung.

وأبطأ حتى نوط الروح، وهذا مجاز.

And he was delayed until the soul was hung, and this is a metaphor.

غاية منتاطة، أي بعيدة.

A distant goal, meaning far away.

والنائطة: الحوصلة، نقله الصاغاني.

And al-nā'iṭah: the gizzard, transmitted by Al-Saghani.

كل شاة برجلها ستناط أي كل جان يؤخذ بجنايته.

Every sheep will be hung by its leg, meaning every wrongdoer will be taken for his offense.