Quranic root
نوأ
n · w · ʾ
The supplied lexical evidence is centered on exertion under weight: rising with difficulty, being weighed down, and burdening another. It also records distinct extensions into distance, rivalry, astronomy, and gift-related expressions.
The weight-and-strain branch includes both laborious rising and being overcome by weight, while separate derived and nominal branches develop into hostility, astronomical terminology, weather attribution, and soliciting gifts. No independent Maqāyīs or Mufradāt development is supplied.
- Lane · entry 44670
- Lane · entry 44671
- Lane · entry 44673
- Lane · entry 44674
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
نَاءَ
nāʾa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To weigh heavily on or burden someone, oppressing them by its weight.
In the attested construction, the heavy thing is the subject and the person or group burdened is introduced with بِـ.
- Lane · entry 44670
Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:76word 15
“would burden”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 28:76لَتَنُوٓأُwould burden
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 14 Classical meanings
نَاءَ
To rise or arise with effort and difficulty, especially while bearing a burden.
With بِـ, the construction may describe a person rising with a burden; it is also used of a bodily part whose weight makes its movement laborious.
- Lane · entry 44670
نَاءَ
To be overcome by weight and fall down.
This is reported as one of the verb’s opposite uses alongside rising under weight.
- Lane · entry 44670
نَاءَ
To behave proudly or arrogantly.
Figurative usage with بِـ, as in نَاءَ بِجَانِبِهِ.
- Lane · entry 44670
نَاءَ
Of a star or asterism, to rise or set aurorally at dawn.
The recorded usage allows variation between the rising and setting of the star or asterism.
- Lane · entry 44670
نَاءَ
To be or become distant, go far away; with بِـ, to render someone or something distant.
This usage is reported as a transposed or dialectal form associated with نَأَى.
- Lane · entry 44670
نَاوَأَ
To contend with someone for glory, vie with him, and act hostilely toward him.
Form III usage takes a person as its object and combines rivalry with hostile opposition.
- Lane · entry 44671
اِسْتَنَاءَ
To prognosticate rain and related weather from the auroral rising or setting of a star or asterism, or to regard it as a نَوْء.
This belongs to the traditional astronomical-weather practice associated with the anwaʾ.
- Lane · entry 44673
اِسْتَنَاءَ
To seek or ask a person for a gift or present.
The object of seeking is the person from whom the gift is requested.
- Lane · entry 44673
نَوْءٌ
A star or asterism of the lunar mansions; also the auroral rising or setting associated with it.
The term may denote the star or asterism itself, its rising, or its setting; descriptions differ over which of the two events is primary.
- Lane · entry 44674
نَوْءٌ
Rain or other weather phenomena traditionally thought to result from the rising or setting of a star or asterism.
This is an attributed or supposed influence of a نَوْء, not a claim about astronomical causation.
- Lane · entry 44674
نَوْءٌ
Herbs or herbage regarded as resulting from a نَوْء.
This is a figurative extension from vegetation associated with the rain attributed to a star or asterism.
- Lane · entry 44674
نَوْءٌ
A gift or present.
This is a separately recorded figurative nominal use and is not merely the verbal meaning of seeking a gift.
- Lane · entry 44674
أَنْوَأُ
More or most knowledgeable about the أَنْوَاء, the stars or asterisms and their associated phenomena.
A comparative or superlative adjective formed in an anomalous lexical usage.
- Lane · entry 44675
مُسْتَبَاءٌ
A person from whom a gift or present is sought.
A passive-participial description of the person whose gift is requested.
- Lane · entry 44676
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
No matched Maqāyīs or Mufradāt entry was supplied; the root idea is therefore a synthesis of the supplied Lane evidence rather than an independently sourced root principle.
The astronomical noun نَوْءٌ is reported with variation between rising and setting, while نَاءَ is also reported with the partially opposite sense of falling under weight.