نهش

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • نَهَسَ (nahasa)

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin. Compare لَسَعَ (lasaʕa, to bite, to sting), لَحِسَ (laḥisa, to lick, to lap), many such terms referring to particular behaviours of animals. The etymology given by Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou—prefix {+n} to ه و ش (h-w-š) or ه ي ش (h-y-š)—is schematic and unfathomable.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.ha.ʃa/

Verb

نَهَشَ • (nahaša) I, non-past يَنْهِشُ‎ (yanhišu)

  1. to bite, to sting, to snap, to grab, to tear
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 51:
      لاحظتُ العيون تركّز نظراتها عليّ وتكاد تنهشني حيّاً.
      I became aware of eyes concentrating upon me and almost snapping me alive.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • تَنَاهَشَ (tanāhaša, to bite each other)
  • نَهَّاش (nahhāš, biting)
  • اِنْتَهَشَ (intahaša, to be stinged)

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1293
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نهش”, 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 344
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نهش”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1356
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “نهش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 946
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