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ن و ي

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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root نوى. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

نَوَاهُ and ↓ اِنْتَوَاهُ He intended it, purposed it, designed it, aimed at it, proposed it to himself as the object of his aim.

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اِنْتَوَى القَوْمُ مَنْزِلًا بِمَوْضِعِ كَذَا (S, Msb) The people, or party, repaired, or betook themselves, to, or towards, a place of alighting or abode, in such a place. (Msb.) See 1. ― -b2- اِنْتَوَى It (a people, or company of men,) removed from country to country, or town to town. (TA.)

نَوًى Date-stones: they are often used as food for camels; (see اـِبِلٌ نَوَوِيَّةٌ ;) and for this purpose are bruised, and sometimes mixed with barley, and then moistened: see بَسِيسَةٌ . ― -b2- نَوَاةٌ What is cut off in the circumcision of a girl. (Lh, in TA, voce عُذْرَةٌ .) The name shows that this is the prepuce of the clitoris, the end of which resembles the end of a date-stone. But see بَظْرٌ . ― -b3- النَّوَى What remains of the place of circumcision of a girl after that operation; i. e. the بَظْر : (M:) or the place of circumcision of a girl, which is what remains of her بَظْر when the مُتْك has been cut off. (T.) ― -b4- نَوًى Pieces of gold, each of the weight of five dirhems. (TA in art. جب .) ― -b5- نَوًى The tract, or region towards which one goes (S) in journeying, whether near or distant; (S;) the place that is the object of a journey: (El-Kálee, TA:) [a traveller's destination:] the course, or direction, that one pursues (K, TA) in journeying and in acting or conduct: (TA:) see an ex. voce صَرْفٌ (third sentence), and عَقَرَ . It is of the fem. gender. (S.) See an ex. in some verses cited voce بَيْنٌ .

نِىٌّ and نَىٌّ : see art. نيأ .

نِيَّةٌ An intention, an intent, a purpose, a design, an aim; a determination of the mind, or heart: (Msb, TA:) this is the general meaning: (Msb:) the direction that one takes (S, Msb, K) in a journey, (S, K,) near or distant, (S,) and in an action: (K:) the thing that one intends, or purposes, or aims at: an affair: (Msb:) the place to which one purposes journeying: (S in art. زل :) see an ex. from a rájiz in art. زل , first paragraph: the thing, or place, that one proposes to himself as the object of his aim, in an action, or a journey: or the thing, or place, that is the object of an action or journey: see طِيَّةٌ and شُلَّةٌ . ― -b2- نِيَّةٌ نَقَحٌ i. q. طَرَحٌ and ضرحٌ , &c. (O, art. ضرح .) ― -b3- نِيَّةٌ بَعِيدَةٌ : see بَعيدٌ , where the ة of the latter word has been accidentally omitted. It also often (or generally) means A distant, or remote, thing, or place, that is the object of an action or journey: &c.

أَنَامُنْتَوٍ عَنْ هَذَا الأَمْرِ I. q. مَتَرَيِّعٌ , q. v. (TA in art. ريع .)

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