ن ي ء
Arabic
editEtymology
editCompare Ge'ez ነ የ እ (n-y-ʾ, “related to being raw”).
Root
editن ي ء • (n-y-ʔ)
- related to being raw
Derived terms
edit- Form I: نَاءَ (nāʔa, “to be raw, to be uncooked”)
- Form II: نَيَّأَ (nayyaʔa, “to cook not through, to treat incompletely”)
- Form IV: أَنَاءَ (ʔanāʔa, “to cook not through, to leave half-cooked”)
References
edit- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ي ء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 357
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ي ء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1333