ن و ء
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Arabic
Etymology
Variant ending to ن و ي (n-w-y), like the opposite ن و ل (n-w-l), and ص د ء (ṣ-d-ʔ) against ص د و (ṣ-d-w). Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou dubiously claims the noun borrowed from Egyptian
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(nw, “time, season”), but such a meaning development from very abstract to very concrete sky movement is left without data.
Root
ن و ء • (n-w-ʔ)
- related to rising against something
Derived terms
- Form I: نَاءَ (nāʔa, “to rise with difficulty against, to press heavily with, to struggle to bear, to maintain expensively, to grind through”)
- Form III: نَاوَأَ (nāwaʔa, “to counter, to vie with”)
- Verbal noun: مُنَاوَأَة (munāwaʔa)
- Active participle: مُنَاوِئ (munāwiʔ)
- Passive participle: مُنَاوَأ (munāwaʔ)
- Form IV: أَنَاءَ (ʔanāʔa, “to press upon”)
- Form X: اِسْتَنَاءَ (istanāʔa, “to ask for a present”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِنَاءَة (istināʔa)
- Active participle: مُسْتَنِيء (mustanīʔ)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَنَاء (mustanāʔ)
- نَوْء (nawʔ, “gift, present; star setting in the west while another called رَقِيب (raqīb) is rising in the east, which forebodes rain and storm; hence tempest, storm; heaps of clouds; storm petrel”)
References
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1295
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن و ء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 348
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن و ء”, 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 1373
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن و ء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1153