نهج
1 نَهَجَ, (
K,
Msb,)
aor. ـَ
inf. n. نُهُوجٌ; (
Msb;) and ↓ انهج; (
S,
K;) It (a road, or way,
S and
Msb, and an affair,
TA,) became manifest, plainly apparent, or open; (
S,
K,
Msb,) and so, with respect to a road, ↓ استنهج. (
K.)
b2: نَهَجَ, (
S,
K,
Msb,) and ↓ انهج, (
K,
Msb,) He, or it, rendered (a road,
S and
Msb, and an affair,
TA,) manifest, plainly apparent, or open: (
S,
K,
Msb:)
b3: إِعْمَلْ عَلَى مَا نَهَجْتُهُ لَكَ Do according to that which I have made manifest to thee. (
S.)
A2: نَهَجَ,
aor. ـَ (
inf. n. نَهْجٌ;
TA,) and ↓ انهج, It (attrition,
TA) wore out, or rendered worn out, a garment. (
K.)
b2: نَهِجَ,
aor. ـَ (A 'Obeyd,
S,
K;) and نَهَجَ, (
K,) but this is disallowed by A 'Obeyd, (
S,) and نَهُجَ, and ↓ انهج; (
K;) It (a garment) became old and worn out: (
K:) or ↓ انهج signifies it began to become warn out: (
S:) and it became old and worn out, but without being rent in several parts. (
TA.) انهج فِيهِ البِلَى [The effect of] attrition spread through it. (
IAar.)
A3: نَهَجَ الطَّرِيقَ He went along the road. (
S,
K.)
A4: نَهِجَ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. نَهَجُ; (
S,
K;) and نُهِجَ,
inf. n. نَهْجَةٌ; (
ISh;) this
inf. n. also mentioned by
Lth, who knew no verb belonging to it; (
L;) and نَهَجَ,
aor. ـِ (
K,)
inf. n. نَهِيجٌ; (
L, in art. أنح;) and ↓ انهج,
inf. n. إِنْهَاجٌ; (
L;) He was out of breath; breathed short, or unintermittedly; panted: (
S,
L,
K;) by reason of violent motion: said of a man, and of a beast of carriage, (
L,) and of a dog. (
T.) One says, فُلَانٌ يَنْهَجُ فِى النَّفَسِ
↓ فَمَا أَدْرَِى مَا أَنْهَجَهُ Such a one is out of breath. or breathes short, or unintermittedly, or pants for breath, and I know not what hath caused him to be so, or to do so. And it is said in a
trad., رَأَى رَجُلًا يَنْهَجُ He saw a man breathing short, or unintermittedly, or panting for breath, by reason of fatness, and putting forth his tongue, from fatigue or the like. (
S.) 4 ضَرَبَهُ حَتَّى انهج He beat him until he became stretched along: or, until he wept: (
TA:) [but probably بكى “ he wept ” is a mistake for بَلِىَ he became worn with the beating].
A2: انهج He, or it, caused him (a man,
S, and a beast of carriage,
TA) to be out of breath, or to breath short, or unintermittedly, or to pant for breath. (
S,
TA.) [See an ex
voce نَهِجَ.] He rode a beast of carriage so as to cause it, or until he caused it, to be out of breath, &c., (
S,
K,) and to become fatigued, or jaded. (
TA.)
A3: See 1, throughout.
10 إِسْتَنْهَجَ see 1.
b2: فُلَانٌ يَسْتَنْهِجُ سَبِيلَ فُلَانٍ, (
S.) or طَرِيقَ فُلَانٍ, (
K.) Such a one follows the way of such a one. (
S,
K.) نَهْجٌ (
S,
K,) and ↓ نَهجٌ (
L) and ↓ مَنْهَجٌ and ↓ مِنْهَاجٌ (
S,
K) A manifest, plainly apparent, or open, road, or way: (
S,
L,
K:) and so طَرِيقٌ
↓ نَاهِجَةٌ: (
TA, from a
trad.:)
pl. of the ??
نَهْجَاتٌ and نُهُجٌ and نُهُوجٌ: (
L:) [and of the third مَنَاهِج].
b2: طُرُقٌ نَهْجَهٌ Manifest roads, or ways. (
L.)
b3: And نَهْجُ الطَّرِيقِ [The plain, or open, track of the road]. (
M,
K, in art. سن.) نَهَجٌ: see نَهْجٌ.
طَرِيقٌ نَاهِجَةٌ: see نَهْجٌ.
مَنْهَجٌ and مِنْهَاجٌ: see نَهْجٌ.