ء ن ي

ء ن ي

Arabic

Root

ء ن ي • (ʾ-n-y)

1. related to drawing near over time

Derived terms

• Form I: أَنَى‎ (ʾanā, “to come, to draw near”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنًى‎ (ʾinan)
  • Active participle: آنٍ‎ (ʾānin)
• Form I: أَنِيَ‎ (ʾaniya, “to tarry, to be tardy”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنًى‎ (ʾinan)
  • Active participle: آنٍ‎ (ʾānin)
• Form I: آنَ‎ (ʾāna, “to come, to draw near”)
  • Verbal noun: أَيْن‎ (ʾayn)
  • Active participle: آئِن‎ (ʾāʾin)
• Form II: أَنَّى‎ (ʾannā, “to tarry, to fall short, to flag, to be remiss in respect of the thing”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْنِيَة‎ (taʾniya)
  • Active participle: مُؤَنٍّ‎ (muʾannin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَنًّى‎ (muʾannan)
• Form IV: آنَى‎ (ʾānā, “to defer, to delay, to postpone, to retard”)
  • Verbal noun: أَنَاء‎ (ʾanāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْنٍ‎ (muʾnin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْنًى‎ (muʾnan)
• Form V: تَأَنَّى‎ (taʾannā, “to act leisurely, to act without haste, to be meticulous”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَنٍّ‎ (taʾannin)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَنٍّ‎ (mutaʾannin)
• Form X: اِسْتَأْنَى‎ (istaʾnā, “to be patient, to wait for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْنَاء‎ (istiʾnāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَأْنٍ‎ (mustaʾnin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَأْنًى‎ (mustaʾnan)

• آن‎ (ʾān, “time”)
• أَنَاة‎ (ʾanāh, “patience, serenity, equanimity, meticulousness”)
• أَنِيّ‎ (ʾaniyy, “a thing of which the time has come, a thing which has attained maturity”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ء ن ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 42
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ء ن ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 66–67
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ء 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 64
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ء ن ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 118–119
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ء ن ي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 89
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ء ن ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50