ه ن ء

ه ن ء • (h-n-ʾ)

1. related to things being wholesome, salutiferous

• Form I: هَنَأَ‎ (hanaʾa, “to be wholesome to, to help, to sustain, to be beneficial to”)
  • Verbal noun: هَنْء‎ (hanʾ), هِنْء‎ (hinʾ), هَنَاء‎ (hanāʾ)
  • Active participle: هَانِئ‎ (hāniʾ)
  • Passive participle: مَهْنُوء‎ (mahnūʾ)
• Form I: هَنِئَ‎ (haniʾa, “to rejoice, to relish, to benefit from”)
  • Verbal noun: هَنَأ‎ (hanaʾ)
  • Active participle: هَانِئ‎ (hāniʾ)
• Form II: هَنَّأَ‎ (hannaʾa, “to make rejoice; to congratulate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهْنِيء‎ (tahnīʾ)
  • Active participle: مُهَنِّئ‎ (muhanniʾ)
  • Passive participle: مُهَنَّأ‎ (muhannaʾ)
• Form V: تَهَنَّأَ‎ (tahannaʾa, “to relish”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَنُّؤ‎ (tahannuʾ)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَنِّئ‎ (mutahanniʾ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَهَنَّأ‎ (mutahannaʾ)
• Form VI: تَهَانَأَ‎ (tahānaʾa, “to congratulate each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَانُؤ‎ (tahānuʾ)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَانِئ‎ (mutahāniʾ)
• Form VIII: اِهْتَنَأَ‎ (ihtanaʾa, “to administrate well”)
  • Verbal noun: اِهْتِنَاء‎ (ihtināʾ)
  • Active participle: مُهْتَنِئ‎ (muhtaniʾ)
  • Passive participle: مُهْتَنَأ‎ (muhtanaʾ)
• Form X: اِسْتَهْنَأَ‎ (istahnaʾa, “to ask for the beneficence of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِهْنَاء‎ (istihnāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَهْنِئ‎ (mustahniʾ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَهْنَأ‎ (mustahnaʾ)

• هَنَاء‎ (hanāʾ) and هَنَاءَة‎ (hanāʾa, “well-being”)
• هَنِيء‎ (hanīʾ, “beneficial, wholesome”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ه ن ء”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (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 (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, London: W.H. Allen, pages 1183-1184
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ه ن ء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1359