Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَصَتَ, aor. ـِ {يَنْصِتُ}, (L, Ḳ,) inf. n. نَصْتٌ; (L;) andانصت↓, inf. n. إِنْصَاتٌ, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ) which latter is the more approved; (L;) andانتصت↓; (L, Ḳ;) He was silent: (L, Ḳ:) or he was silent and listened: (Ṣ:) or he was silent to listen: (L:) or he was silent as one listening: (Er-Rághib:) or he listened: (Mṣb:) or انتصب signifies he stood, or paused, listening. (Mṣb.)

أَنْصَتَهُ↓, and انصت لَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and إِلَيْهِ, (Z,) and نَصَتَ لَهُ, (L,) He was silent, and listened to his speech. (Ṣ, Ḳ, &c.)

انصتهُ He made him silent; silenced him. (Sh, Ḳ.)

انصتهُ عَنِّى He made him to be silent, [and to abstain] from [speaking of, or to,] me. (Aṣ.)

See 1.

انصت لِلَّهْوِ He inclined to play, or sport. (IAạr, Ḳ.)

استنصتهُ He asked him, or desired him, to be silent: (Ḳ:) or, to be silent and to listen to him. (TA.)

نُصْتَةٌ Silence: [or silence and listening, &c.] (Ḳ.)