ذهن

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concepts of intellect, understanding, comprehension, and mental capacity. It extends to encompass mental acuity, intelligence, and the ability to retain information. Additionally, it touches upon the idea of being distracted or made to forget, and metaphorically, it can refer to strength or vitality.

Derived headwords

الذِّهْنnoun

1.
understanding, intellectboth
Comprehension and the faculty of reasoning; the mind.
2.
mental retentionclassical
The ability of the heart to retain or hold onto something; used when directing one's focus.
3.
acuity, perceptivenessboth
Sharpness of mind and the ability to perceive things quickly.
4.
capacity, powerboth
The inherent strength or capability of something, particularly the mind or body.
5.
fat, richnessclassical
Substance and richness, particularly referring to the fat of a camel that sustains it.

اجعل ذهنك إلى كذا وكذا — Direct your mind/attention to such and such.

ما برجلي ذهن: أي قوة على المشي — My leg has no strength: meaning, no power to walk.

أذهانnoun

1.
intellects, mindsboth
The plural of 'dhihn', referring to multiple intellects or minds.
2.
mental strengthclassical
The collective strength and grasp of the intellect.

هو من أهل الذهن والأذهان — He is among the people of intellect and mental grasp.

ذهننيverb

1.
made me forgetclassical
To cause someone to forget or to distract them from remembering.

ذهنني عنه وأذهنني واستذهنني — He made me forget it and distracted me from it and caused me to forget it.

أذهننيverb

1.
made me forgetclassical
To cause someone to forget or to distract them from remembering.

ذهنني عنه وأذهنني واستذهنني — He made me forget it and distracted me from it and caused me to forget it.

استذهننيverb

1.
made me forgetclassical
To cause someone to forget or to distract them from remembering.
2.
took my mindclassical
To occupy someone's thoughts or attention to the exclusion of other things.

ذهنني عنه وأذهنني واستذهنني — He made me forget it and distracted me from it and caused me to forget it.

استذهنك حب الدنيا: ذهب بذهنك — The love of this world preoccupied you: it took your mind.

استذهنت السنة القصب: ذهبت بذهنها وهو نقيها — The year depleted the reeds: it took away their substance, their pure core.

ذاهننيverb

1.
outwitted me in intellectclassical
To engage in a contest of wits or intellect, where one party proves superior in mental acuity.

ذاهنني فذهنته — He competed with me in intellect, and I surpassed him in intellect.

مذهونadjective

1.
surpassed in intellectclassical
One who has been outwitted or surpassed in a contest of intellect.

ذاهنني فذهنته؛ وهو مذهون — He competed with me in intellect, and I surpassed him; he is the one surpassed.

دهن بن كعبname

1.
a clan nameclassical
A specific lineage or branch within the tribe of Madhhij.

ذهن بن كعب، بالضم: بطن من مذحج — Dahn bin Ka'b, with damma: a clan of Madhhij.

رجل ذهنadjective

1.
intelligent, sharpboth
A man possessing keen intellect and sharp understanding.

رجل ذهن، ككتف، وذهن، بالكسر: أي ذكي فطن — A man 'dhihn', like 'kitf', and 'dhihn', with kasra: meaning intelligent and perceptive.

ذهنadjective

1.
intelligent, sharpboth
Possessing keen intellect and sharp understanding.

رجل ذهن، ككتف، وذهن، بالكسر: أي ذكي فطن — A man 'dhihn', like 'kitf', and 'dhihn', with kasra: meaning intelligent and perceptive.

قد ذُهِنَverb

1.
became intelligentclassical
To acquire or demonstrate intelligence or understanding.

وكأن ذهنا مغير عن ذهن وقد ذهن — And it is as if 'dhihn' is derived from 'dhihn', and he has become intelligent.

اذهنverb

1.
understand, perceiveboth
To grasp or comprehend something; to pay attention to.

واذهن إلى ما أقول افطن — And pay attention to what I say, understand it.

لا يذهنverb

1.
does not comprehendboth
To lack understanding or the ability to comprehend.

وهو لا يذهن شيئا: لا يعقل — And he comprehends nothing: he does not understand.

ذهنتverb

1.
understoodclassical
To have comprehended or understood something.
2.
understood fromclassical
To have grasped the meaning or implication of something.

ذهنت كذا وكذا: فهمته — I understood such and such: I comprehended it.

ذهنت عن كذا: فهمت عنه — I understood from such and such: I comprehended it.

Parallel reading

الذهن، بالكسر: الفهم والعقل.

The dhihn, with kasra: understanding and intellect.

وأيضا: حفظ القلب.

And also: retention of the heart.

يقال: اجعل ذهنك إلى كذا وكذا.

It is said: Direct your mind/attention to such and such.

وأيضا: الفطنة ؛ كما في الصحاح.

And also: perceptiveness; as in Al-Sihah.

وقيل: هو قوة في النفس معدة لاكتساب العلوم تشمل الحواس الظاهرة والباطنة وشدتها هي الذكاء وجودتها لتصور ما يرد عليها هي الفطنة؛

And it was said: It is a power in the soul prepared for acquiring knowledge, encompassing the external and internal senses, and its intensity is intelligence, and its quality for conceptualizing what comes to it is perceptiveness;

والذهن: القوة.

And the dhihn: strength.

ويقال: ما برجلي ذهن: أي قوة على المشي ؛

And it is said: My leg has no dhihn: meaning, no strength to walk;

وأنشد الجوهري لأوس بن حجر: أنوء برجل بها ذهنهاوأعيت بها أختها الغابرة

And Al-Jawhari cited for Aws bin Hajar: I am burdened by a leg that has its strength, and its lingering sister has exhausted it.

والذهن: الشحم.

And the dhihn: fat.

يقال: ما رأينا بإبلك ذهنا يقيمها السنة أي طرقا وشحما يقويها ؛

It is said: We have not seen in your camel any fat to sustain it for the year, meaning sustenance and fat that strengthens it;

يقال: هو من أهل الذهن والأذهان: وهو القوة في العقل والمسكة؛ وهو مجاز.

It is said: He is among the people of intellect and mental grasp: meaning strength in the mind and retention; and this is metaphorical.

ويقال: ذهنني عنه وأذهنني واستذهنني: أي أنساني وألهاني عن الذكر.

And it is said: He made me forget it, and distracted me, and caused me to forget: meaning he made me forget and distracted me from remembrance.

وذاهنني فذهنته: أي فاطنني فكنت أجود منه ذهنا ؛ وهو مذهون.

And he competed with me in intellect, and I surpassed him in intellect; he is the one surpassed.

قال الحافظ: والذي في أنساب ابن السمعاني: الدهن، بفتح الدال المهملة وكسر الهاء، هو ابن كعب بن ربيعة بن كعب بن الحارث بن كعب بن عمرو بن علة بن جلد بن مالك بن أدد؛

Al-Hafiz said: And what is in the genealogies of Ibn Al-Sam'ani: Al-Dahn, with fat-hah on the dal and kasra on the ha, is Ibn Ka'b bin Rabi'ah bin Ka'b bin Al-Harith bin Ka'b bin 'Amr bin 'Illah bin Jald bin Malik bin Adad;

منهم: شريك بن الأعور، واسم الأعور الحارث بن عبد يغوث بن خلف بن سلمة بن دهن المذحجي، كان في شيعة علي، رضي الله تعالى عنه، مات بالكوفة في أيام زياد.

Among them: Sharik bin Al-A'war, and Al-A'war's name is Al-Harith bin 'Abd Yaghuth bin Khalaf bin Salamah bin Dahn Al-Madhhiji, he was among the followers of Ali, may God have mercy on him, he died in Kufa during the days of Ziyad.

رجل ذهن، ككتف، وذهن، بالكسر: أي ذكي فطن، كلاهما على النسب، وكأن ذهنا مغير عن ذهن وقد ذهن، كعلم.

A man 'dhihn', like 'kitf', and 'dhihn', with kasra: meaning intelligent and perceptive, both are by attribution, and it is as if 'dhihn' is derived from 'dhihn', and he has become intelligent, like 'alim.

واذهن إلى ما أقول افطن.

And pay attention to what I say, understand it.

وهو لا يذهن شيئا: لا يعقل.

And he comprehends nothing: he does not understand.

واستذهنك حب الدنيا: ذهب بذهنك.

And the love of this world preoccupied you: it took your mind.

واستذهنت السنة القصب: ذهبت بذهنها وهو نقيها.

And the year depleted the reeds: it took away their substance, their pure core.

ذهنت كذا وكذا: فهمته.

I understood such and such: I comprehended it.

ذهنت عن كذا: فهمت عنه.

I understood from such and such: I comprehended it.