Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Persian ʾnʾhyt' (anāhīd, Anahita, Venus, a goddess of fertility in the Iranian pantheon). نَاهِد (nāhid, buxom, full, swelling (said of a female breast)) is the original within this root formula.

Noun edit

نَهْد (nahdm (dual نَهْدَانِ (nahdāni), plural نُهُود (nuhūd))

  1. breast
    Synonym: ثَدْي (ṯady)
Declension edit

Verb edit

نَهَدَ (nahada) I, non-past يَنْهَدُ or يَنْهُدُ‎ (yanhadu or yanhudu)

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Conjugation edit

Verb edit

نَهَدَ (nahada) I, non-past يَنْهَدُ or يَنْهُدُ‎ (yanhadu or yanhudu)

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Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

نَهُدْ (nahud) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of هَادَ (hāda)

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

نَهْدِ (nahdi) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of هَدَى (hadā)

Verb edit

نُهْدَ (nuhda) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of هَدَى (hadā)

References edit

  • Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009) “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 169