م ح ن
See also: محن
Arabic
Root
م ح ن • (m-ḥ-n)
- related to experience, to try, to put to the test, to afflict
Derived terms
- Form I: مَحَنَ (maḥana, “to hit so as to try, to cure or to make supple”)
- Verbal noun: مَحْن (maḥn)
- Active participle: مَاحِن (māḥin)
- Passive participle: مَمْحُون (mamḥūn)
- Form II: مَحَّنَ (maḥḥana, “to hit supple”)
- Verbal noun: تَمْحِين (tamḥīn)
- Active participle: مُمَحِّن (mumaḥḥin)
- Passive participle: مُمَحَّن (mumaḥḥan)
- Form VIII: اِمْتَحَنَ (imtaḥana, “to afflict, to try”)
- Verbal noun: اِمْتِحَان (imtiḥān)
- Active participle: مُمْتَحِن (mumtaḥin)
- Passive participle: مُمْتَحَن (mumtaḥan)
- مَحْن (maḥn, “supple”)
- مِحْنَة (miḥna, “affliction, distress”)
- مُحُونَة (muḥūna, “state of distress”)
References
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1182
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “م ح ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 571
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “م ح ن”, 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 156
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “م ح ن”, 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, pages 1070–1071
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “م ح ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1051