ثني

ثَنَى

To make the fingers bend at the mention of a person, an idiom for counting him among the foremost or best of his class.

A conventional figurative expression rather than a general physical claim about finger movement.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَى

To bend or draw up a leg and thereby alight from a riding animal.

Used in constructions involving the hip or leg when dismounting, and of turning a leg from a position.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَى

To turn a person or thing away or back from a course, goal, need, or object of desire.

Commonly followed by عَنْ with the course, need, or desired object from which the subject is turned.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَى

To tie or bind, especially by using the two ends or two ties of a rope.

The construction may describe binding both forelegs of a camel or tying one foreleg to the arm.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَى

To make or become a second to someone or something; to add what makes a pair.

The usage includes taking half of a person's property by becoming his second and, figuratively, making eleven twelve.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَى

To turn over land a second time for sowing or cultivation.

A specialized agricultural construction concerning repeated turning of the ground.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَى

To give or do something a second time.

This rare usage is preserved as an attested poetic expression.

• Lane · entry 27584

ثَنَّى

To make something two, call it two, count two, or form a dual.

The grammatical application includes making a word dual, while the numerical application includes counting or treating something as two.

• Lane · entry 27585

ثَنَّى

To repeat or iterate something.

This is the causative/intensive repetition sense, distinct from merely counting two items.

• Lane · entry 27585

ثَنَّى

To do an action twice or remain for two nights.

The construction extends to doing a saying or action one time after another.

• Lane · entry 27585

ثَنَّى

To do one thing immediately after another thing.

Used with an action that follows another in direct succession.

• Lane · entry 27585

تَثْنِيَةٌ

In the game of maysir, a player's request that a successful arrow be returned to him for another chance at the stakes.

A specialized technical usage of the game and its distribution of shares.

• Lane · entry 27585

أَثْنَى

To bring forth a second offspring.

Used of a female animal and, in the cited lexical explanation, of a second birth.

• Lane · entry 27586

أَثْنَى

To shed the tooth called a ثَنِيَّة and thereby become an animal of the ثَنِيّ stage.

Used of camels and other animals in age terminology.

• Lane · entry 27586

أَثْنَى

To praise, commend, or speak well of someone, and in some usage to dispraise or censure.

The object may be God, a person, or a deed; praise is the more common interpretation in some authorities.

• Lane · entry 27586

تَثَنَّى

To incline or bend the body from side to side, especially with an affected, proud, or elegant gait.

The expression describes a manner of walking or bodily swaying, not a restriction to a particular gender or object class.

• Lane · entry 27587

اِنْثَنَى

To become doubled, folded, or bent.

An intransitive development of the physical folding or bending sense.

• Lane · entry 27588

اِنْثَنَى

To turn or turn back from an affair after having resolved to undertake it.

The construction describes withdrawal from a previously intended course of action.

• Lane · entry 27588

ثِنْىٌ

A duplication or doubling of a thing.

This nominal headword denotes the result or occurrence of making something twofold.

• Lane · entry 27592

ثِنْىٌ

A fold, or something folded within another thing; by extension, the interior or midst of a written matter, affair, or period.

The usage includes something enclosed in the folds of a letter and something occurring in the midst of an affair or a period of the night.

• Lane · entry 27592

ثِنْىٌ

Parts of a thing laid together as layers, strands, sides, or components of a bundle.

A plural-related material sense concerning things arranged one upon another, side by side, or like strands of a rope.

• Lane · entry 27592

ثِنْىٌ

A bend of the neck or a fold or coil of a serpent; figuratively, a turn or fold of a night.

The serpent and night applications are figurative extensions of bending and coiling.

• Lane · entry 27592

ثِنْىٌ

A bent or doubled portion of a cord, rope, scarf, or similar object, including a loop used as a tether.

The usage includes folded rope ends and loops made to place around the pasterns or necks of animals.

• Lane · entry 27592

ثِنْىٌ

A female camel that has brought forth a second offspring, and the second offspring itself; by extension, a woman who has given birth twice.

Authorities differ over whether the term can denote a first birth, but the cited lexical evidence treats the second birth as the more correct usage.

• Lane · entry 27592

ثِنًى

Repetition of a thing, or an action done twice.

The term is used for recurrence, including the statement that a levy is not taken twice in one year.

• Lane · entry 27595

ثِنْيَةٌ

The lowest, least eminent, or meanest member of a man's household.

This is a social-status usage distinct from the homonymous terms for a mountain pass, tooth, or animal age.

• Lane · entry 27598

ثُنْيَا

An exception or the thing excepted from a general statement, bargain, oath, or contract.

In legal and contractual usage, an exception may be invalid when the excepted portion is unknown or improperly specified.

• Lane · entry 27599

ثُنْيَا

A specifically excepted portion, especially the head and legs of a slaughtered camel, or a palm tree excluded from a bargain.

The term can also be applied to those excepted from a general falling or swooning in a Quranic interpretation; the cited Lane reference uses its historical citation notation and is not converted here into a modern verse location.

• Lane · entry 27599

ثُنْيَانٌ

A second chief or the person immediately below the chief in rank.

The term denotes a successor or subordinate leader rather than simply any second item.

• Lane · entry 27600

ثُنْيَانٌ

A man lacking judgment, intelligence, or understanding.

A specialized characterization of a person, distinct from the rank-related sense.

• Lane · entry 27600

ثُنْيَانٌ

Wrong, corrupt, unsound, or badly directed when applied to judgment or opinion.

This is a figurative adjectival application to judgment or an opinion.

• Lane · entry 27600

ثَنَوِيٌّ

Relating to two, or to the numeral two or twelve when used as a man's proper name.

A relational adjective formed from a numeral expression.

• Lane · entry 27601

ثَنَوِيٌّ

A Dualist, one who professes the doctrine of two opposing principles.

A technical religious designation derived from the concept of duality.

• Lane · entry 27601

ثَنَاءٌ

Praise, eulogy, or commendation; in some usage, dispraise or censure as well.

Praise is the more frequent sense, and the word may be applied to a person or to God.

• Lane · entry 27602

ثِنَاءٌ

A doubled cord or rope used to bind the fore shanks and arms of a camel.

The term refers to the rope arrangement or its doubled folds, not ordinarily to a single rope used for only one limb.

• Lane · entry 27604

ثِنَاءٌ

The forecourt or open space in front of a house.

Its derivation from ثني is explicitly disputed: one explanation derives it from turning back, while another treats the initial consonant as a substitution for ف.

• Lane · entry 27604

ثَنِيٌّ

An animal that has shed its ثَنِيَّة tooth and entered the corresponding age stage.

The age varies by animal: the cited terminology includes a camel in its sixth year, a horse in its third or fourth, and certain livestock in their second or third.

• Lane · entry 27605

ثَنِيَّةٌ

A mountain pass, a road traversing or leading to a mountain, or the mountain or mountain section crossed by such a road.

The term may refer specifically to a pass requiring ascent and descent, or more broadly to the mountain route itself.

• Lane · entry 27607

ثَنِيَّةٌ

One of the foremost incisor teeth, especially the four central incisors in humans, camels, and certain animals.

The plural ثَنَايَا is also used for these teeth; the naming is associated with their form, hardness, or paired placement.

• Lane · entry 27607

ثَنِيَّةٌ

The feminine form of ثَنِيٌّ for a female animal that has shed the specified tooth and reached that age stage.

This is the feminine animal-age term, distinct from the mountain-pass and incisor senses of the same form.

• Lane · entry 27607

ثِنَايَةٌ

A cord or rope, especially one made of goat hair, wool, or similar material; also a long rope or rope apparatus.

The cited technical usage includes a cord attached to a well-rope apparatus or saddle and a folded middle or extremity.

• Lane · entry 27608

ثُنَائِيٌّ

Of or relating to two things; consisting of two parts.

The technical grammatical example is a word composed of two letters.

• Lane · entry 27609

ثَانٍ

Second in sequence, including the horns that come after the foremost horns.

A specialized ordinal application to successive horns.

• Lane · entry 27611

ثَانِيَ عَشَرَ

Twelfth, in the masculine and feminine numeral compounds.

The compound follows the grammatical rules of the corresponding ordinal-number expressions.

• Lane · entry 27611

اِثْنَانِ

Monday, the second day of the week.

The day-name is treated in usage both as the name of a single day and, less commonly, with dual-number agreement.

• Lane · entry 27614

اِثْنَا عَشَرَ

Twelve, in the masculine and feminine compound numerals.

The compound has distinct nominative and oblique forms and agrees in gender according to numeral rules.

• Lane · entry 27614

اِثْنَوِيٌّ

A person who fasts alone on Monday.

A specialized relational adjective based on the name of the second day of the week.

• Lane · entry 27615

الاِثْنَيْنِيَّةُ

The doctrine of dualism.

A technical abstract noun for the belief in two governing principles.

• Lane · entry 27616

مَثْنَى

The repetition or renewal of a benefit, benefaction, or portion; in maysir, shares taken or given successively.

The usage can describe conferring a benefit twice or more, taking a portion repeatedly, or purchasing leftover shares for others.

• Lane · entry 27617

مَثَانٍ

The knees and elbows, or comparable bending joints, of a horse or similar beast.

A plural application derived from the idea of places of bending.

• Lane · entry 27617

مَثَانٍ

The bends of a valley.

A geographical plural referring to the turning places of a valley.

• Lane · entry 27617

مَثْنَى

A doubled or second chord of a lute, or the chords following the first.

A technical musical sense involving a chord made of two twists or occupying the second position.

• Lane · entry 27617

مَثْنَى

The noserein or doubled part at the end of a she-camel's rein.

The term can denote the folded end itself or the rein arrangement associated with it.

• Lane · entry 27617

مَثْنَاةٌ

A work or recitation repeated after another source; specifically, a book composed from a source other than God's Book, or a sung composition of paired verses.

The cited explanations include the Mishna-like book and a two-verse song form; these are classical uses distinct from the Quranic designation مَثَانِي.

• Lane · entry 27618

مُثَنًّى

Dualized or made into a dual.

A passive-participial grammatical designation for a word or expression given dual form.

• Lane · entry 27620

مُثَنًّى

Long and narrow, passing out of sight by its length.

An attributed figurative expression, mainly for something long without appreciable breadth.

• Lane · entry 27620

مَثْنِيٌّ

Doubled, folded, or turned over.

The passive participle may describe an object that has been folded or land turned over.

• Lane · entry 27621

مَثْنِيٌّ

Land turned over twice for sowing or cultivation.

A specialized agricultural adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 27621