muntahā

utmost, extreme, terminated

مُنْتَهَى

Word

Noun · pattern مُفْتَعَل

Root

ن ه ي

In the library

وَأَنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الْمُنْتَهَىٰ

The Qurʾān, page 527 →

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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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