استهان

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ه و ن (h-w-n)

Verb[edit]

اِسْتَهَانَ (istahāna) X, non-past يَسْتَهِينُ‎ (yastahīnu)

  1. to underestimate, to underrate, to undervalue
  2. to consider (something) easy, to make light of
  3. to treat with disregard, to neglect
  4. to look down on, to have a low opinion of, to disdain, to scorn

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “استهان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 419
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “استهان”, 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[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1460
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “استهان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1363
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “استهان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 977