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naʿuma

be soft, be smooth

نَعُمَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

ن ع م

Forms

Present
يَنْعُمُ
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ نَعُمَيَنْعُمُ—
she هِيَ نَعُمَتتَنْعُمُ—
they two (m.) هُما نَعُمايَنْعُمانِ—
they two (f.) هُما نَعُمَتاتَنْعُمانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ نَعُمُوايَنْعُمُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ نَعُمْنَيَنْعُمْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ نَعُمْتَتَنْعُمُاُنْعُمْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ نَعُمْتِتَنْعُمِينَاُنْعُمِي
you two أَنْتُما نَعُمْتُماتَنْعُمانِاُنْعُمَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ نَعُمْتُمتَنْعُمُونَاُنْعُمُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ نَعُمْتُنَّتَنْعُمْنَاُنْعُمْنَ
I أَنا نَعُمْتُأَنْعُمُ—
we نَحْنُ نَعُمْنانَنْعُمُ—

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • نَعِمَ عَيْشُهَُ Form I His life was, or became, plentiful and easy
    His life was, or became, plentiful and easy: (Msb:) was, or became, good, or pleasant. (Mgh.) See عَوْفٌ. ― -b2- نَعِمَ, aor. , is like فَضِلَ, aor. , and حَضِرَ, aor . See the latter. ― -b3- اِنْعِمْ ضَبَاحًا, and عِمْ صَباحًا: see تَرِبَ and صَبَاحٌ. ― -b4- نَعُمَ, inf. n. نُعُومَةٌ; (S, Msb;) and نَعِمَ; (S;) It was, or became, soft, or tender, (S, Msb,) to the feet. (Msb.)
  • نَعَّمَهُ Form II made him to enjoy, or lead, a plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft, or delicate, state, or life
    , (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ نَاعَمَهُ, (S, K,) He (God, S, Msb,) made him to enjoy, or lead, a plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft, or delicate, state, or life; a state, or life, of ease and plenty. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- نَعَّمَهُ He nourished well him, or it; pampered him.
  • نَاْعَمَ Form III Open entry
    see 2.
  • أَنْعَمَ عَلَيْهِ بِشَىْءٍِ Form IV He conferred, or bestowed, upon him a thing as a favour
    He conferred, or bestowed, upon him a thing as a favour. See أَحْسَنَ. ― -b2- أَنْعَمَ عَجْنَهُ He kneaded it well, thoroughly, or soundly. (TA, voce رَيْعٌ.) ― -b3- أَنْعَمَ الدَّقَّ He bruised or powdered finely: see دَقَّقَ. ― -b4- أَنْعَمَ طَبْخَهُ He cooked it well; syn. أَجَادَ طَبْخَهُ. (IbrD.) The verb is often used in this sense. ― -b5- أَنْعَمَ ٱللّٰهُ بِكَ عَيْنًا: see أَبْغَضَ.
  • تَنَعَّمَ Form V he enjoyed, or led, an easy, a pleasant, a soft, or a delicate, life, with ampleness of the means of subsistence
    he enjoyed, or led, an easy, a pleasant, a soft, or a delicate, life, with ampleness of the means of subsistence; a life of ease and plenty. (K.) ― -b2- تَنَعَّمَ It (a tree) became flourishing and fresh, (TK, art. روى, &c.,) luxuriant, succulent, sappy, soft, tender, and supple. See رَوِىَ. ― -b3- تَنَعَّمَ i. q. تَمَتَّعَ. (Msb. *)
  • نُعْمٌ Open entry
    contr. of بُوأْسٌ, (S,) [like ↓ نَعْمَآءُ and ↓ نُعْمَى and ↓ نَعْمَةٌ and ↓ نَعِيمٌ:] pl. أَنْعُمٌ. (S.) See نِعْمَةٌ.
  • نَعَمْ Even so; yes; yea
    Even so; yes; yea. (Msb, &c.) See أَجَلْ and بَجَلْ.
  • نَعَمٌ Pasturing
    Pasturing مَال [or cattle]; mostly applied to camels, and neat, and sheep and goats: or applied to all these, and to camels when alone, but neat and sheep or goats when alone are not thus termed; (Msb;) therefore, cattle, consisting of camels or neat or sheep or goats, or all these, or camels alone.
  • نِعْمَ الرَّجُلُ زَيْدٌ Excellent, or most excellent, or excellent above all, is the man, Zeyd
    Excellent, or most excellent, or excellent above all, is the man, Zeyd; or [very or] superlatively good, &c. (Msb.) ― -b2- See بيأْسَ.
  • نَعْمَةٌ subst. of تَنَعُّمٌ
    subst. of تَنَعُّمٌ (Msb, K) in the sense of تَرَفُّةٌ subst. of تَمَتُّعْ (Msb:) or i. q. ― -b2- تَنَعُّمٌ: (S: in F's smaller copy, تَنَعِيمٌ, an evident mistake:) i. e. plentifulness, and pleasantness or easiness, and softness or delicacy, of life: ease and plenty. ― -b3- نَعْمَةٌ A living in [or rather enjoyment of a life of] softness, daintiness, or delicacy, and ease, comfort, or affluence: (KL:) i. q. ↓ نَعِيمٌ; (Msb;) and مُتْعَةٌ: (Jel in xliv. 26:) it is from التَّنَعُّمُ; and ↓ نِعْمَةٌ is from الإِنْعَامُ. (Ksh, cited in Kull, p. 364.) See نِعْمَةٌ: and see تُرْفَةٌ. ― -b4- نَعْمَةُ الشَّباَبِ [The flourishing freshness, softness, tenderness, or blooming loveliness or graces, of youth. See عَبْعَبٌ.] ― -b5- نَعْمَةٌ Softness; tenderness; bloom; or flourishing freshness (IbrD;) of a branch; and of youth, or youthfulness. (M, art. ملد; &c.)
  • نِعْمَةٌ A benefit; benefaction; favour; boon; or good
    and ↓ نُعْمَى and ↓ نَعْمَآءُ A benefit; benefaction; favour; boon; or good: (S, Msb:) a blessing; [bounty; gratuity;] or what God bestows upon one: and so ↓ نَعِيمٌ: (S:) [grace of God:] and ↓ نَعِيمٌ and ↓ نَعْمَةٌ, with fet-h, [and ↓ نُعْمَى and ↓ نَعْمَآءُ and ↓ نُعْمٌ, ease and plenty,] enjoyment; (Msb;) [welfare; well being; weal:] ↓ نُعْمَى and ↓ نَعْمَآءُ are the contr. of بُوأْسَى and بَأْسَآءُ: (TA, art. بأس:) بَعْدَ ضَرَّآءَ ↓ نَعْمَآءُ, in the Kur [xi. 13,] is like health after sickness; and richness, or competence, after want. (Bd.) ― -b2- نِعْمَةٌ A blessing; (S;) a cause of happiness. (K.) A favour: a benefit; and the like. (S.) ― -b3- نِعْمَةٌ Wealth, or property. (K.) The first explanations given to it above are assigned in the K, not to this word, but to ↓ نَعِيمٌ and ↓ نُعْمَى. ― -b4- نِعْمَةٌ with the article seems generally to signify Wealth: and without the article, A benefit, benefaction, favour, boon, or blessing.
  • نُعْمَةٌ rejoicing by a thing
    The act of rejoicing by a thing: and the state of rejoicing in a thing. (KL.)

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