ء ن ي

ء ن ي • (ʔ-n-y)

1. related to drawing near over time

• Form I: أَنَى (ʔanā, “to come, to draw near”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنًى (ʔinan)
  • Active participle: آنٍ (ʔānin)
• Form I: أَنِيَ (ʔaniya, “to tarry, to be tardy”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنًى (ʔinan)
  • Active participle: آنٍ (ʔānin)
• Form I: آنَ (ʔāna, “to come, to draw near”)
  • Verbal noun: أَيْن (ʔayn)
  • Active participle: آئِن (ʔāʔin)
• Form II: أَنَّى (ʔannā, “to tarry, to fall short, to flag, to be remiss in respect of the thing”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْنِيَة (taʔniya)
  • Active participle: مُؤَنٍّ (muʔannin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَنًّى (muʔannan)
• Form IV: آنَى (ʔānā, “to defer, to delay, to postpone, to retard”)
  • Verbal noun: أَنَاء (ʔanāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْنٍ (muʔnin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْنًى (muʔnan)
• Form V: تَأَنَّى (taʔannā, “to act leisurely, to act without haste, to be meticulous”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَنٍّ (taʔannin)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَنٍّ (mutaʔannin)
• Form X: اِسْتَأْنَى (istaʔnā, “to be patient, to wait for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْنَاء (istiʔnāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَأْنٍ (mustaʔnin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَأْنًى (mustaʔnan)

• آن (ʔān, “time”)
• أَنَاة (ʔanāh, “patience, serenity, equanimity, meticulousness”)
• أَنِيّ (ʔaniyy, “a thing of which the time has come, a thing which has attained maturity”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ء ن ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 42
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ن ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 66–67
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء ن ي”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 64
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء ن ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 118–119
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ء ن ي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 89
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ء ن ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50