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Arabic
Root
ك ن ي • (k-n-y)
- related to giving epithets
Derived terms
- Form I: كَنَى (kanā, “indicate something metaphorically, allude, refer to something in a veiled way; to call someone by a nickname, to give them a nickname; (in the passive) to bear a nickname”)
- Form II: كَنَّى (kannā, “to give someone a nickname or epithet”)
- Form IV: أَكْنَى (ʔaknā, “to give someone a nickname or epithet”)
- Form VIII: اِكْتَنَى (iktanā, “to be nicknamed”)
- كَانٍ (kānin, “one who uses a metaphor, who alludes to something or someone using a word other than the proper name”); pl. كُنَاة (kunāh) كَانُون (kānūn)
- كُنْيَة (kunya, “nickname; metaphor”), also كِنْيَة (kinya), كِنْوَة (kinwa), كُنْوَة (kunwa); pl. كُنًى (kunan)
- كَنِى (“someone who bears the same nickname as another”)
- كِنَايَة (kināya, “nickname”)
References
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ن ي”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 938