ن ك ه
Arabic
Root
ن ك ه • (n-k-h)
- related to breath at the nostrils
Derived terms
- Form I: نَكَهَ (nakaha, “to blow into the nostrils of, to exhale one’s spirit towards”)
- Verbal noun: نَكْه (nakh)
- Active participle: نَاكِه (nākih)
- Passive participle: مَنْكُوه (mankūh)
- Form II: نَكَّهَ (nakkaha, “to flavour, to add aroma to”)
- Verbal noun: تَنْكِيه (tankīh)
- Active participle: مُنَكِّه (munakkih)
- Passive participle: مُنَكَّه (munakkah)
- Form X: اِسْتَنْكَهَ (istankaha, “to try to perceive the breath of”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْكَاه (istinkāh)
- Active participle: مُسْتَنْكِه (mustankih)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَنْكَه (mustankah)
- نَكْهَة (nakha, “exhaled smell, aroma, scent, flavour”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ن ك ه”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 724a
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “ن ك ه”, 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 336b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ن ك ه”, 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 4, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1345b
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ن ك ه”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1147
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “ن ك ه”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1172a