نشط

نَشِطَ

To become brisk, lively, active, agile, prompt, or quick; also to become cheerful or willing to undertake work.

Used of a person and, by extension, of a beast of carriage; نَشِطَ إِلَيْهِ means to betake oneself to someone or something briskly.

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نَشِطَ

To become fat.

Especially said of a beast of carriage.

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نَشَطَ

To go forth from a place or pass from one country or region to another.

Used of a wild bull, a star or planet moving between signs, and camels going onward, whether in a straight direction or not.

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نَشَطَ

To lead out or branch away from a main route.

Used figuratively of griefs or disquietudes leading a person onward, and of a road branching from a principal road.

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نَشَطَ

To pull or draw a bucket up from a well without a pulley.

The action is the model for related expressions about drawing something out or releasing it by a pull.

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نَشَطَ

To stretch the forelegs widely while moving.

A specialized description of a she-camel’s stride, understood by analogy with the motion of pulling up a bucket.

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نَشَطَ

To tie a cord, rope, or knot so as to form a slip-knot or other easily undone knot.

Also used with the knot itself and with the special knot called أُنْشُوطَة.

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نَشَّطَ

To make someone or something brisk, lively, or active.

Form II transitive usage.

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أَنْشَطَ

For a person’s beasts or family to be or become in a state of briskness and activity.

Used of a man or a company of men with respect to their beasts or household.

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أَنْشَطَ

To make a beast fat.

Said of herbage that causes an animal to become fat.

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أَنْشَطَ

To loosen, untie, or undo a cord, rope, knot, or bond.

It may mean pulling a cord until it becomes undone, undoing a camel’s binding, or releasing someone from a bond by a single pull.

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أَنْشَطَ

To bind or tie firmly, fast, or strongly.

This opposite signification is reported in the lexical record with an explicit qualification concerning the correctness of the reading.

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تَنَشَّطَ

To hasten or traverse a route swiftly and briskly.

Used of a camel hastening in its pace and of passing through a desert or crossing land with speed and activity.

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اِنْتَشَطَ

To become loosened, untied, or undone.

Used of a cord or rope becoming free of its fastening.

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اِنْتَشَطَ

To become released from a figurative restraint.

Reported of becoming free from the tie of silence and, with a stated doubt about its classical authority, from impotence.

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اِنْتَشَطَ

To pull or draw a thing.

Transitive usage.

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اِنْتَشَطَ

To seize, take hastily, or snatch something unawares.

This signification is distinguished from the usage describing animals pulling up herbage.

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اِنْتَشَطَ

For camels, sheep, or goats to pull herbage up with their teeth.

Used with herbage or pasture as the object.

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اِنْتَشَطَ

To scale a fish by pulling off its scales.

A specialized transitive usage.

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نُشُطٌ

Persons who untwist cords or ropes.

Specifically persons undoing cords so that they may be twisted or plaited again; the form is treated as a plural.

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نَشْطَةٌ

The rapid lapse or short duration of a right or legal claim.

In the expression comparing the right of pre-emption to the loosening of a binding, delay causes the right to become ineffective quickly.

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نَشُوطٌ

A well from which the bucket requires much pulling to emerge.

Said of a deep-bottomed well; it contrasts with أَنْشَاطٌ.

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نَشِيطٌ

Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, or quick; also cheerful or willing to work.

Used as an adjective for a person or a beast of carriage; it can also describe a man by the active state of his family or beasts.

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نَاشِطٌ

Yearning or desire that pulls one toward something.

A poetic use in which نَاشِطًا is explained as longing desire.

• Lane · entry 43755

نَاشِطٌ

A road or watercourse that branches from a main route.

Used of a road or a subsidiary watercourse going off to the right or left; the plural is نَوَاشِطُ.

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أَنْشَاطٌ

A shallow well from which the bucket comes up with a single pull.

The form may also occur as إِنْشَاطٌ in the lexical discussion.

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أُنْشُوطَةٌ

A bow-knot or slip-knot that comes undone when one end is pulled.

A knot or tie such as a running-band knot, designed to loosen easily.

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أُنْشُوطَةٌ

A weak or frail bond of love or affection.

Figurative usage in the expression that one’s affection is not an أُنْشُوطَةٌ.

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مَنْشَطٌ

A thing one is eager, cheerful, or willing to do.

Opposed to مَكْرَهٌ, something disliked or done unwillingly.

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مَنْشِطٌ

A place to which one goes forth.

The plural is مَنَاشِطُ.

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مِنْشَطٌ

One characterized by abundant briskness or activity.

An adjective-like nominal description of marked نَشَاط.

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نَشَطَ

To peel or strip something off.

The action is explained as bringing something out of its covering or skin.

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نَشِيطَةٌ

Property or booty selected by a leader before the general division.

A specialized use in the distribution of captured property.

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نَشِيطَةٌ

A camel found and driven along without being specially summoned or urged.

A specialized military or pastoral usage; another explanation applies the term to property taken ahead of the main division.

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نَشَطَ

For a snake to bite or sting someone.

Used in the expression نَشَطَتْهُ الحَيَّةُ.

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