ه ن ء

Arabic

Root

ه ن ء • (h-n-ʔ)

1. related to things being wholesome, salutiferous

Derived terms

• Form I: هَنَأَ (hanaʔa, “to be wholesome to, to help, to sustain, to be beneficial to”)
  • Verbal noun: هَنْء (hanʔ), هِنْء (hinʔ), هَنَاء (hanāʔ)
  • Active participle: هَانِئ (hāniʔ)
  • Passive participle: مَهْنُوء (mahnūʔ)
• Form I: هَنِئَ (haniʔa, “to rejoice, to relish, to benefit from”)
  • Verbal noun: هَنَأ (hanaʔ)
  • Active participle: هَانِئ (hāniʔ)
• Form II: هَنَّأَ (hannaʔa, “to make rejoice; to congratulate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهْنِيء (tahnīʔ)
  • Active participle: مُهَنِّئ (muhanniʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُهَنَّأ (muhannaʔ)
• Form V: تَهَنَّأَ (tahannaʔa, “to relish”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَنُّؤ (tahannuʔ)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَنِّئ (mutahanniʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَهَنَّأ (mutahannaʔ)
• Form VI: تَهَانَأَ (tahānaʔa, “to congratulate each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَانُؤ (tahānuʔ)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَانِئ (mutahāniʔ)
• Form VIII: اِهْتَنَأَ (ihtanaʔa, “to administrate well”)
  • Verbal noun: اِهْتِنَاء (ihtināʔ)
  • Active participle: مُهْتَنِئ (muhtaniʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُهْتَنَأ (muhtanaʔ)
• Form X: اِسْتَهْنَأَ (istahnaʔa, “to ask for the beneficence of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِهْنَاء (istihnāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَهْنِئ (mustahniʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَهْنَأ (mustahnaʔ)

• هَنَاء (hanāʔ) and هَنَاءَة (hanāʔa, “well-being”)
• هَنِيء (hanīʔ, “beneficial, wholesome”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ه ن ء”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 765
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ه ن ء”, 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, pages 411–412
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ه ن ء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, pages 1183-1184
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ه ن ء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1359