ن و ء

Arabic

Etymology

Variant ending to ن و ي (n-w-y), like the opposite ن و ل (n-w-l), and ص د ء (ṣ-d-ʔ) against ص د و (ṣ-d-w). Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou dubiously claims the noun borrowed from Egyptian

(nw, “time, season”), but such a meaning development from very abstract to very concrete sky movement is left without data.

Root

ن و ء • (n-w-ʔ)

1. related to rising against something

Derived terms

• Form I: نَاءَ (nāʔa, “to rise with difficulty against, to press heavily with, to struggle to bear, to maintain expensively, to grind through”)
  • Verbal noun: نَوْء (nawʔ)
  • Active participle: نَاءٍ (nāʔin)
  • Passive participle: مَنُوء (manūʔ)
• Form III: نَاوَأَ (nāwaʔa, “to counter, to vie with”)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاوَأَة (munāwaʔa), نِوَاء (niwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنَاوِئ (munāwiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاوَأ (munāwaʔ)
• Form IV: أَنَاءَ (ʔanāʔa, “to press upon”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنَاءَة (ʔināʔa)
  • Active participle: مُنِيء (munīʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاء (munāʔ)
• Form X: اِسْتَنَاءَ (istanāʔa, “to ask for a present”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنَاءَة (istināʔa)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنِيء (mustanīʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنَاء (mustanāʔ)

• نَوْء (nawʔ, “gift, present; star setting in the west while another called رَقِيب (raqīb) is rising in the east, which forebodes rain and storm; hence tempest, storm; heaps of clouds; storm petrel”)

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 1295
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن و ء”, 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 348
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن و ء”, 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 C^ie, page 1373
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن و ء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 1153