ك ه ن

ك ه ن • (k-h-n)

1. related to foretelling

• Form I: كَهَنَ‎ (kahana, “to divine, to foretell, to predicate, to speculate”)
  • Verbal noun: كَهَانَة‎ (kahāna)
  • Active participle: كَاهِن‎ (kāhin)
  • Passive participle: مَكْهُون‎ (makhūn)
• Form IV: أَكْهَنَ‎ (ʾakhana, “to conjecture”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْهَان‎ (ʾikhān)
  • Active participle: مُكْهِن‎ (mukhin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْهَن‎ (mukhan)
• Form V: تَكَهَّنَ‎ (takahhana, “to divine, to foretell, to predicate, to speculate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَهُّن‎ (takahhun)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَهِّن‎ (mutakahhin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَكَهَّن‎ (mutakahhan)

• كَاهِن‎ (kāhin, “prophet; priest”)
• كِهَانَة‎ (kihāna, “art of foretelling, augury; priesthood”)
• كَهِين‎ (kahīn, “magician”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ك ه ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 495–496
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ك ه ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 68
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ك ه ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1125