nahaā

forbid, restrain

نَهَىَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

ن ه ي

Forms

Present: يَنْهَى

In the library

لَوْلَا يَنْهَاهُمُ الرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْأَحْبَارُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِمُ الْإِثْمَ وَأَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ

The Qurʾān, page 118 →

Conjugation

Person	Past	Present
he هُوَ	نَهَى	يَنْهَى
she هِيَ	نَهََت	تَنْهَى
they two (m.) هُما	نَهَيا	يَنْهَيانِ
they two (f.) هُما	نَهََتا	تَنْهَيانِ
they (m.) هُمْ	نَهََوْا	يَنْهَُونَ
they (f.) هُنَّ	نَهَيْنَ	يَنْهَيْنَ
you (m.) أَنْتَ	نَهَيْتَ	تَنْهَى
you (f.) أَنْتِ	نَهَيْتِ	تَنْهَِينَ
you two أَنْتُما	نَهَيْتُما	تَنْهَيانِ
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ	نَهَيْتُم	تَنْهَُونَ
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ	نَهَيْتُنَّ	تَنْهَيْنَ
I أَنا	نَهَيْتُ	أَنْهَى
we نَحْنُ	نَهَيْنا	نَنْهَى

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 8 entries

نَهَاهُ عَنْهُ Form I He forbade him it

He forbade him it. ― -b2- لَاتُسْهَى وَلَا تُنْهَى: see art. سهى, in two places.
تَنَاْهَىَ Form VI Open entry

see 8.
اِنْتَهَى عَنْهُ Form VIII He refrained, abstained, or desisted, from it, as forbidden

, and ↓ تَنَاهَى, He refrained, abstained, or desisted, from it, as forbidden; left, relinquished, or forsook it. (S, Msb.) See an ex. of the latter voce سَوَادٌ. ― -b2- اِنْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ It ultimately reached, or extended, and sometimes it so pertained, to him, or it: in the latter sense said of authority and the like: and simply, it reached to him, or it. ― -b3- اِنْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ الخَبَرُ, and ↓ تَنَاهَى, The information, or news, reached him. (S.) ― -b4- اِنْتَهَى إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ He came at last, or ultimately, to a place. So I have rendered it in explaining أَفْضَى. ― -b5- اِنْتَهَى It (a thing, or an affair,) attained the utmost possible point, or degree. (Msb.) It (fruit, and the like) attained its utmost state of growth. ― -b6- اِنْتَهَى It is ended: a word put to mark the end of a quotation.
رَكِبَ النَّهْىَ He did that which he was forbidden to do

He did that which he was forbidden to do. (TA in art. ردع.)
نَهُوٌّ Open entry

is anomalous, (TA,) like بَغُوٌّ.
نِهَايَةٌ utmost possible point, or degree

The utmost possible point, or degree: (Msb:) and the ultimate point, or element, to which a thing can be reduced or resolved: its utmost point or particular: as also ↓ مَنْتَهًى. See فَصٌّ. ― -b2- نِهَايَةٌ فِى السَّخَآءِ [Extreme in bounty, or munificence]. (O and K, voce مَسْحَلٌ.)
نَاهِيكَ بِأَخِينَا A person sufficing thee is our brother

[A person sufficing thee is our brother]: the ب is added to denote emphatic praise. (Fr in TA, art. بِ.) See also Har, p. 28, and, more particularly, p. 91.
مُنْتَهًى A place to which a person or thing comes at last; a journey's end; a goal

A place to which a person or thing comes at last; a journey's end; a goal; a destination, or place or state to which a person or thing is appointed to come; an end; an ultimate object: see an ex. in a verse near the end of art. ب. See نِهَايَةٌ. ― -b2- سِدْرَةُ المُنْتَهَى (Kur liii. 14) The lote-tree of the ultimate point of access, in the Seventh Heaven: see سدر.

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