نخت
1 نَحَتَ,
aor. ـِ (
S,
L,
K,)
contr. to
analogy, (
TA,) and نَخَتَ, (
L,
K,) which is the form preferred by
IJ, because of the guttural letter, but this is disputed by
MF, (
TA,) and نَخُتَ, (
K,) which is the form of weakest authority, (
TA,)
inf. n. نَحْتٌ, (
S,) He cut, or hewed; formed, or fashioned, by cutting; cut out, hewed out, or shaped out; chipped:
syn. بَرَى: (
S,
K:) he worked wood and the like as a carpenter;
syn. نَجَرَ: he pared, peeled, barked, or deprived of its outer covering by paring, abrasure, or wearing away the exterior: he sawed. (
L.) [See also لَحَتَ.]
Accord. to some, the operation termed نحت is only performed upon something hard and strong, as stone and wood and the like. (
MF.) [↓ انتحت seems to signify He cut, &c., for himself:] you say, اِنْتَحِتْ مِنَ الخَشَبِ مَا يَكْفِيكَ لِلْوَقُودِ [Cut, or hew, for thyself, of the wood, what will suffice thee for fuel]: (
A.)
b2: نَحَتَ بَيْتًا فِى الجَبَلِ,
aor. ـِ and نَخَتَ,
inf. n. نَحْتٌ, He cut out, or hewed out, a house in the mountain. In the
Kur, xv. 82, El-Hasan [El-Basree] reads يَنْحَتُونَ. (
Msb.) [
Accord. to the
K, his reading is يَنْحَاتُونَ, (in the
CK, تَنْحَاتُونَ,) but this I find nowhere else, and I believe it to be a mistake.]
b3: نُحِتَ عَلَى الكَرَمِ (
tropical:) [He was fashioned after the model of generosity; made by nature generous]. (
A.)
b4: نَحَتَ Inivit puellam: (
K:) as also لَحَتَ; but the latter is the better known. (
TA.)
b5: نَحَتَ,
inf. n. نَحْتٌ, (
tropical:) He beat, struck, or smote, him with a staff, or stick: (
TA:) [as also لَحَتَ].
b6: نَحَتَ He threw him down prostrate. (
K.)
b7: نَحَتَ بِلِسَانِهِ (
tropical:) He blamed; reprehended; reviled a man. (
L.) [See also لَحَتَ.]
b8: نَحَتَ (
tropical:) It (a journey, or travel,) emaciated a camel: (
K:) it made a man less; made him thin, or slender. (
TA.)
b9: نَحَتَ, (
TA,) [
aor. ـِ and نَخَتَ?]
inf. n. نَحِيتٌ and نَحِيتَةٌ, He sighed aloud: the
inf. ns.
syn. with نَئِيتٌ and زَحِيرٌ. (
K.) 8 إِنْتَخَتَ see 1.
b2: انتحت It (wood or the like) was [cut, or hewn; formed, or fashioned, by cutting; cut out, hewed out, or shaped out; chipped;] worked by a carpenter: [pared, peeled, barked, or deprived of its outer covering: sawn]. (
L.)
b3: انتحت مَنَاسِمُهُ (
tropical:) His (a camel's) مناسم [i. e. toes or feet] were worn, abraded, wasted, lessened, or attenuated. (
L.) نَحْتٌ and ↓ نَحَاتٌ (
K) and ↓ نَحِيتَةٌ (
S,
K) (
tropical:) Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or other property; (
S,
K;) a particular cast, or fashion, of constitution, after which a man is [as it were] cut out [by the Creator]: (
TA:) and the first, the source, or origin, from which one is [as it were] cut out: [see also ↓ مَنْحَتٌ]. (
Lh.)
b2: الكَرَمُ مِنْ نَحْتِهِ Generosity is [a part] of his nature; or, [derived] from his source. or origin. (
Lh.)
b3: هَوُ عَجِيبُ النَّحْتِ He is of a wonderful nature. (
TA.)
b4: ↓ هَوُ كَرِيمُ النَّحِيتَةِ He is generous in nature, or disposition. (
Az.)
A2: بَرْدٌ نَحْتٌ Unmixed [i. e. sever] cold: (
K:) but this is said to be a corruption of بَحْتٌ. (
TA.) [See also لَحْتٌ.]
نَحِيتٌ A comb:
syn. مُشْطٌ or مَشْطٌ. (So in different copies of the
K.)
A2: حَافِرٌ نَحِيتٌ A hoof of which the edges have gone [or become abraded, been worn away]; (
S,
K;) [and so ↓ حافر مَنْحَوتٌ, occurring in the
K in art. حك, where, in its place in the
S, we find حافر نَحِيتٌ.]
b2: نَحِيتٌ (
tropical:) An emaciated camel: (
K:) a camel whose feet are worn, abraded, or wasted. (
L.)
b3: ↓ نَحِيتَةٌ A [portion of the] trunk of a tree, which is hewn out, and hollowed, in the form of a jar such as is called حُبّ, for bees:
pl. نُحُتٌ. (
L.)
b4: نَحِيتٌ Anything bad; what is bad of anything. (
L.)
A3: نَحِيتٌ One who introduces himself among a people, and lives with them, not being of their race. (
S,
K.) نَحَاتٌ: see نَحْتٌ.
نُحَاتَةٌ Cuttings, chips, parings, and the like, (
S,
K,) of wood [&c.]. (
TA.) نَحِيتَةٌ: see نَحْتٌ and نَحِيتٌ.
مَنْحَتٌ (
tropical:) The source, or origin, of a man, [from which he is, as it were, cut out]:
pl. مَنَاحِتُ. (
TA.) See also نَحْتٌ.
b2: هُوَ مِنْ مَنْحَتِ صِدْقٍ He is of an excellent source, or origin. (
A.)
b3: هُمْ كِرَامُ المَنَاحِتِ They are of generous sources, or origins. (
A.) مِنْحَتٌ (
S,
K) and ↓ مِنْحَاتٌ (
Msb,
TA) An implement with which one performs the operation of cutting, hewing, and the like; (
S,
K,
L;) an adz, or addice. (
Msb.) مِنْحَاتٌ: see مِنْحَتٌ.
فَرَسٌ مُنَحَّتُ الحَوَافِرِ [A horse having the hoofs much worn.] (
IDrd,
K, art. حك.) مَنْحُوتٌ: see نَحِيتٌ.
A2: A word compounded of two [or more] words; such as بَسْمَلَ,
حَمْدَلَ, حَوْقَلَ, حَسْبَلَ, &c. (
Msb,
TA, art. بسمل.)
