م ح ن

See also: محن

Arabic

Root

م ح ن • (m-ḥ-n)

1. related to experience, to try, to put to the test, to afflict

Derived terms

• Form I: مَحَنَ (maḥana, “to hit so as to try, to cure or to make supple”)
  • Verbal noun: مَحْن (maḥn)
  • Active participle: مَاحِن (māḥin)
  • Passive participle: مَمْحُون (mamḥūn)
• Form II: مَحَّنَ (maḥḥana, “to hit supple”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمْحِين (tamḥīn)
  • Active participle: مُمَحِّن (mumaḥḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُمَحَّن (mumaḥḥan)
• Form VIII: اِمْتَحَنَ (imtaḥana, “to afflict, to try”)
  • Verbal noun: اِمْتِحَان (imtiḥān)
  • Active participle: مُمْتَحِن (mumtaḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُمْتَحَن (mumtaḥan)

• مَحْن (maḥn, “supple”)
• مِحْنَة (miḥna, “affliction, distress”)
• مُحُونَة (muḥūna, “state of distress”)

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 1182
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “م ح ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 571
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “م ح ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 156
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “م ح ن”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1070–1071
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “م ح ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1051