Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

واكأ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ He leaned upon his hands, or arms. Moḥammad was seen to do so when he raised and extended his hands in supplication to God. (IAth.)

أَوْكَأَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. إِيكَاءٌ, (Ṣ,) He set up for him a thing upon which to recline (مُتَّكَأٌ.) (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

أَتْكَأَهُ, (in which ت is substituted for و,) inf. n. إِتْكَاهُ, He propped him up by a cushion or other thing whereon to recline; made him recline upon a cushion, &c. (AZ, TA.)

ضَرَبَهُ فَأَتْكَأَهُ, (A,) or طَعَنَهُ حَتَّى أَتْكَأَهُ, originally أَوْكَأَهُ, (Ṣ,) ‡ He smote him, (A,) or pierced him, (Ṣ,) so that he made him fall in a reclining posture: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:*) or, so that he threw him down upon his left side. (Ḳ.)

See 3.

اِتَّكَأَ He sat in a firm, or settled, manner: and he sat leaning upon one of his sides: (Mṣb, in art. تكأ:) the vulgar know it only in the latter sense: but it signifies he leaned, rested, or stayed, his back, or his side, against, or upon, a thing: and he leaned, rested, or stayed, himself in any manner, upon a thing. (IAth, in Mṣb, art. وكأ.)

اِتَّكَأَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ, (Ṣ,) andتوكّأ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) andاوكأ↓; (Ḳ;) andتَكِئَ↓, [in which ت is substituted for و,] aor. يَتْكَأُ, inf. n. تَكْءٌ; (Lth;) andوَكَأَ↓; (CK;) He leaned, or reclined, upon a thing; supported, propped, or stayed, himself upon it. (Ḳ.)

اِتَّكَأَ He reclined upon a cushion, &c. (TA.)

اِتَّكَأَ He made for him [i. e., app., for himself,] a thing upon which to lean, or recline: (CK, and a MṢ. copy of the Ḳ:) or he made him to be a thing upon which to lean, or recline. (TA.) [The latter seems to be wrong, unless the verb be read أَتْكَأَ.]

اِتَّكَأْنَا عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ ‡ We ate a repast with, or at the abode of, such a one. (TA.)

اِتَّكَأَتْ (MF) andتَوَكَّأَتْ↓ (Ḳ) She (a camel) was taken with the pains of labour, and cried out. (Ḳ.) Accord. to Lth, تَوَكُّؤُ النَّاقَةِ signifies تصلّفها عند مخاضها: (TA:) [but it is evident that the right reading is تصلّقها; and the sense agreeable with the above explanation].

تُكَأَةٌ (in which ت is substituted for و, TA) A staff, or stick, (Ḳ,) upon which one leans in walking; a walking-stick: (TA:) that upon which one leans or reclines. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

One who reclines much. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

‡ A heavy person [app., in disposition]. (TA.)

مُتَّكِئٌ act. part. n. of 8.

لَا آكُلُ مُتَّكِئًا I (said Moḥammad) eat not sitting in a firm, or settled, posture, cross-legged, or in such other similar manner as is adapted for much eating: for he used to eat sitting upon his hams, with his shanks erect, so as to be ready to rise. The meaning is not [only] “inclining on one side,” as the vulgar among students imagine. (Ḳ.)

مُتَّكَأ A place in which one reclines: (Ṣ:) a chamber, or sitting-room. (Akh, Ṣ.)

That upon which one leans, or reclines, in eating, drinking, or talking. (Zj.)

‡ Food, or a repast: so called because people used to recline when they sat to eat: but the Muslims are forbidden to do so. [See مُتَّكِئٌ.] It is said to have this last meaning in the Ḳur. xii. 31. (TA.)