استهان

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Arabic

Root
ه و ن (h w n)
18 terms

Alternative forms

Verb

اِسْتَهَانَ (istahāna) X (non-past يَسْتَهِينُ (yastahīnu), verbal noun اِسْتِهَانَة (istihāna))

  1. to underestimate, to underrate, to undervalue
  2. to consider easy, to make light of
  3. to treat with disregard, to neglect
  4. to look down on, to have a low opinion of, to disdain, to scorn

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “استهان”, 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 419
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “استهان”, 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 1460
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “استهان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1363
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “استهان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 977