Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَحَتَ, aor. ـِ {يَنْحِتُ}, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ,) contr. to analogy, (TA,) and ـَ, (L, Ḳ,) which is the form preferred by IJ, because of the guttural letter, but this is disputed by MF, (TA,) and ـُ, (Ḳ,) which is the form of weakest authority, (TA,) inf. n. نَحْتٌ, (Ṣ,) He cut, or hewed; formed, or fashioned, by cutting; cut out, hewed out, or shaped out; chipped: syn. بَرَى: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) he worked wood and the like as a carpenter; syn. نَجَرَ: he pared, peeled, barked, or deprived of its outer covering by paring, abrasure, or wearing away the exterior: he sawed. (L.) [See also لَحَتَ.] Accord. to some, the operation termed نحت is only performed upon something hard and strong, as stone and wood and the like. (MF.) [انتحت↓ seems to signify He cut,, &c., for himself:] you say, اِنْتَحِتْ مِنَ الخَشَبِ مَا يَكْفِيكَ لِلْوَقُودِ [Cut, or hew, for thyself, of the wood, what will suffice thee for fuel]: (A.)

نَحَتَ بَيْتًا فِى الجَبَلِ, aor. ـِ {يَنْحِتُ} and ـَ {يَنْحَتُ}, inf. n. نَحْتٌ, He cut out, or hewed out, a house in the mountain. In the Ḳur, xv. 82, El-Ḥasan [El-Basree] reads يَنْحَتُونَ. (Mṣb.) [Accord. to the Ḳ, his reading is يَنْحَاتُونَ, (in the CK, تَنْحَاتُونَ,) but this I find nowhere else, and I believe it to be a mistake.]

نُحِتَ عَلَى الكَرَمِ ‡ [He was fashioned after the model of generosity; made by nature generous]. (A.)

نَحَتَ Inivit puellam: (Ḳ:) as also لَحَتَ; but the latter is the better known. (TA.)

نَحَتَ, inf. n. نَحْتٌ, ‡ He beat, struck, or smote, him with a staff, or stick: (TA:) [as also لَحَتَ].

نَحَتَ He threw him down prostrate. (Ḳ.)

نَحَتَ بِلِسَانِهِ ‡ He blamed; reprehended; reviled a man. (L.) [See also لَحَتَ.]

نَحَتَ ‡ It (a journey, or travel,) emaciated a camel: (Ḳ:) it made a man less; made him thin, or slender. (TA.)

نَحَتَ, (TA,) [aor. ـِ {يَنْحِتُ} and ـَ {يَنْحَتُ}?] inf. n. نَحِيتٌ and نَحِيتَةٌ, He sighed aloud: the inf. ns. syn. with نَئِيتٌ and زَحِيرٌ. (Ḳ.)

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انتحت It (wood or the like) was [cut, or hewn; formed, or fashioned, by cutting; cut out, hewed out, or shaped out; chipped;] worked by a carpenter: [pared, peeled, barked, or deprived of its outer covering: sawn]. (L.)

انتحت مَنَاسِمُهُ ‡ His (a camel's) مناسم [i. e. toes or feet] were worn, abraded, wasted, lessened, or attenuated. (L.)

نَحْتٌ andنَحَاتٌ↓ (Ḳ) andنَحِيتَةٌ↓ (Ṣ, Ḳ) ‡ Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or other property; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) a particular cast, or fashion, of constitution, after which a man is [as it were] cut out [by the Creator]: (TA:) and the first, the source, or origin, from which one is [as it were] cut out: [see alsoمَنْحَتٌ↓]. (Lḥ.)

الكَرَمُ مِنْ نَحْتِهِ Generosity is [a part] of his nature; or, [derived] from his source. or origin. (Lḥ.)

هَوُ عَجِيبُ النَّحْتِ He is of a wonderful nature. (TA.)

هَوُ كَرِيمُ النَّحِيتَةِ↓ He is generous in nature, or disposition. (AZ.)

بَرْدٌ نَحْتٌ Unmixed [i. e. sever] cold: (Ḳ:) but this is said to be a corruption of بَحْتٌ. (TA.) [See also لَحْتٌ.]

نَحِيتٌ A comb: syn. مُشْطٌ or مَشْطٌ. (So in different copies of the Ḳ.)

حَافِرٌ نَحِيتٌ A hoof of which the edges have gone [or become abraded, been worn away]; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) [and soحافر مَنْحَوتٌ↓, occurring in the Ḳ in art. حك, where, in its place in the Ṣ, we find حافر نَحِيتٌ.]

نَحِيتٌ ‡ An emaciated camel: (Ḳ:) a camel whose feet are worn, abraded, or wasted. (L.)

نَحِيتَةٌ↓ A [portion of the] trunk of a tree, which is hewn out, and hollowed, in the form of a jar such as is called حُبّ, for bees: pl. نُحُتٌ. (L.)

نَحِيتٌ Anything bad; what is bad of anything. (L.)

نَحِيتٌ One who introduces himself among a people, and lives with them, not being of their race. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

نُحَاتَةٌ Cuttings, chips, parings, and the like, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) of wood [&c.]. (TA.)

مَنْحَتٌ ‡ The source, or origin, of a man, [from which he is, as it were, cut out]: pl. مَنَاحِتُ. (TA.) See also نَحْتٌ.

هُوَ مِنْ مَنْحَتِ صِدْقٍ He is of an excellent source, or origin. (A.)

هُمْ كِرَامُ المَنَاحِتِ They are of generous sources, or origins. (A.)

مِنْحَتٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) andمِنْحَاتٌ↓ (Mṣb, TA) An implement with which one performs the operation of cutting, hewing, and the like; (Ṣ, Ḳ, L;) an adz, or addice. (Mṣb.)

فَرَسٌ مُنَحَّتُ الحَوَافِرِ [A horse having the hoofs much worn.] (IDrd, Ḳ, art. حك.)

مَنْحُوتٌ: see نَحِيتٌ.

A word compounded of two [or more] words; such as بَسْمَلَ, حَمْدَلَ, حَوْقَلَ, حَسْبَلَ, &c. (Mṣb, TA, art. بسمل.)