حنن

حَنَّ

To yearn, long for, or desire; to be emotionally moved with grief or joy.

Used of a person, the heart, an animal, or other subject. A camel or pigeon may yearn toward its young or home, often with a cry; the heart may yearn without producing a sound.

• Lane · entry 15797

حَنَّ

To emit a plaintive, resonant, creaking, or ringing sound.

A transferred use applied to a lute, reed, bow, basin, mast, wind, or similar object; the sound may be associated with grief, liveliness, or yearning.

• Lane · entry 15797

حَنَّ

To show mercy, compassion, pity, or affectionate inclination toward someone or something.

The construction حَنَّ عَلَيْهِ takes the object with عَلَى; it is also used of an animal's compassionate inclination toward its young.

• Lane · entry 15797

حَنَّ

To turn away, shun, or turn someone or something away or back.

With عَنْ, حَنَّ denotes turning away or avoiding; the transitive حَنَّهُ denotes causing someone or something to turn away or back.

• Lane · entry 15797

حُنَّ

To become possessed by a demon and hence become mad or insane.

A rare reported usage, with مَحْنُونٌ used for a person so affected.

• Lane · entry 15797

حَنَّنَ

To cause someone to become merciful, compassionate, pitiful, or favourably inclined.

The lexical explanation is reported as current usage and possibly also Classical Arabic.

• Lane · entry 15798

حَنَّنَ

To attack or charge and then retreat cowardly.

An idiomatic use describing a person who makes an assault and withdraws.

• Lane · entry 15798

حَنَّنَ

Not to turn away, leave, or relinquish; of a mark, not to disappear from the skin.

Reported in constructions such as مَا حَنَّنَ عَنِّي; the related wording and reading are presented as variant usage.

• Lane · entry 15798

حَنَّنَ

Of a tree or herb, to blossom or flower.

Used intransitively of vegetation.

• Lane · entry 15798

أَحَنَّ

To make a bow twang or give a sound by pulling and releasing its string.

The object is the bow, with the sound resulting from release of the drawn string.

• Lane · entry 15799

أَحَنَّ

To do wrong, make a mistake, or miss the object aimed at.

A separate reported Form IV usage.

• Lane · entry 15799

اِسْتَحَنَّ

To be intensely affected by longing, especially longing for one's homeland.

The construction استحنّهُ الشوقُ إلى وطنه presents longing as the force producing the emotional effect.

• Lane · entry 15802

الحِنُّ

A class or tribe of jinn.

Descriptions vary: they are identified as beings preceding Adam, the lowest or weakest kind of jinn, associated with black dogs, or creatures between jinn and humankind.

• Lane · entry 15804

حَنَّةٌ

Likeness or resemblance, especially resemblance inherited from a parent.

Preserved in proverbial expressions about a child or person resembling a parent.

• Lane · entry 15805

حَنَّةٌ

The grumbling or yearning cry of a camel.

A specialized noun for a camel's vocalization.

• Lane · entry 15805

حَنَّةٌ

A man's wife.

An independently attested nominal use.

• Lane · entry 15805

حِنَّةٌ

Demoniacal possession, madness, or insanity.

Used in the expression بِهِ حِنَّةٌ, ‘he has demoniacal possession or madness.’

• Lane · entry 15806

حَنَانٌ

Provision, blessing, or good bestowed by God.

A Classical extension distinct from the Quranic mercy sense.

• Lane · entry 15807

حَنَانٌ

A quality inspiring reverence, respect, or honour; gravity or sedateness.

Used of a person's dignified or venerable bearing.

• Lane · entry 15807

حَنَانٌ

Evil or mischief that continues for a long time.

A distinct, rarely attested nominal usage.

• Lane · entry 15807

حَنُونٌ

A wind that makes a plaintive or moaning sound like the yearning of camels.

An adjectival noun applied specifically to wind.

• Lane · entry 15808

حَنُونٌ

A woman who marries from tenderness or compassion for her young children.

The stated motive is that the husband will support the children.

• Lane · entry 15808

حَنِينٌ

Yearning, longing, or desire, especially an affectionate yearning accompanied by pity or compassion.

The word may also denote the leaning or inclination of a palm trunk; it can be used of longing toward offspring or homeland.

• Lane · entry 15809

حَنِينٌ

A cry or sound expressing yearning, grief, joy, or another lively emotion.

It may be a camel's yearning cry or a sound from the bosom during weeping; distinctions are reported between this and the nasal sound called خَنِينٌ.

• Lane · entry 15809

حَنِينٌ

A name for one of the months of Jumādā.

Reported usages identify it with Jumādā al-awwālā, Jumādā al-ākhirah, or the month named by the tribe of ʿĀd; variant plurals are also recorded.

• Lane · entry 15809

حُنَيْنٌ

The proper name of a known place, as in the Quranic expression يوم حنين, ‘the day of Hunayn.’

This proper-name use is distinct from the common noun حَنِينٌ and from its month-name usage.

• Mufradāt · row 360

حِنِّيٌّ

Belonging to the jinn called الحِنّ; especially, a dog of that group.

Attested in the phrase كَلْبٌ حِنِّيٌّ.

• Lane · entry 15811

حَنَّانٌ

One who yearns, longs for, or desires something and inclines toward it.

The form may describe a person or, figuratively, an object characterized by yearning or its sound.

• Lane · entry 15813

حَنَّانَةٌ

A woman who yearns for a former husband or for her child or children.

The descriptions include grieving tenderness for children, yearning for a former husband, or marrying after divorce while continuing to yearn for him.

• Lane · entry 15813

حَنَّانٌ

A bow that twangs or makes a sound when its string is released.

A noun or epithet motivated by the bow's characteristic sound.

• Lane · entry 15813

حَنَّانٌ

An epithet for something producing or associated with a plaintive or yearning sound.

Applied to a lute, clouds, an arrow, a strenuous journey involving yearning camels, or a conspicuous road associated with the cries of camels.

• Lane · entry 15813

حَنَّانٌ

One who shows favour or a favourable aspect to someone who turns away or shuns him.

A specialized personal description.

• Lane · entry 15813

الحَنَّانُ

Merciful or having mercy; the Merciful as a divine epithet.

A Classical epithet and reported name of God, distinct in form from the Quranic noun حَنَانٌ.

• Lane · entry 15813

حِنَّانٌ

Henna, Lawsonia inermis; a dialectal form of حِنَّاءٌ.

A dialectal or variant botanical noun.

• Lane · entry 15814

حَنُّونٌ

The flower of the henna plant, or the flower of a tree or plant generally.

A singulative botanical noun.

• Lane · entry 15815

حَانٌّ

Yearning, longing, desiring, or affected by an intense emotion of grief or joy.

The form may describe a person or an animal characterized by yearning.

• Lane · entry 15817

حَانَّةٌ

A she-camel characterized by yearning toward her young.

A specialized feminine form derived from the animal's yearning behavior.

• Lane · entry 15817

مُسْتَحَنٌّ

One affected by intense longing for his homeland.

The related form مُسْتَحِنٌّ is also reported.

• Lane · entry 15817
• Lane · entry 15819

مَحْنُونٌ

Possessed, mad, or affected by epilepsy.

Applied to a man; explanations include possession by a jinn, insanity, or an epileptic seizure followed by temporary recovery.

• Lane · entry 15818