Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَنَى He affixed a كِنَايَة, meaning, with the Koofees, a pronoun, to a verb [&c.]: (TA in art. ريب:) but accord. to the usage of the verb in two instances in the M and Ḳ, voce رَابَ in art. ريب, it clearly means he spoke allusively.

كَنَىَ بِهِ عَنْ كَدَم, He used it metonymically for such a word or phrase; he alluded thereby to such a thing.

كُنْيَةٌ A surname of relationship.

كِنَايَةٌ A metonymy: see تَعْرِيضٌ; where the difference between these two words is explained.

Also, An allusion. (TA.)

Also, andمُكَنًّى↓, accord. to De Sacy, in his Ar. Gr. i. 455, orمُكَنٍّ↓, for I find its plural written in a copy of the Ṣ مُكَنِّيَات, A pronoun; see كَنَى.

مُكَنٍّ and مُكَنَّى:see كِنَايَةٌ.