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Entries on كني in 6 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Ibn Sīda al-Mursī, Al-Muḥkam wa-l-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam, Al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, and 3 more

كني


كَنَى(n. ac. كِنَاْيَة)
a. see supra
(a)b.(n. ac. كِنْيَة
كُنْيَة)
see II
كَنَّيَ
a. [acc. & Bi], Nicknamed, surnamed.
أَكْنَيَa. see II
تَكَنَّيَ
a. [Bi], Went by the name of; was nicknamed.
إِكْتَنَيَa. see V
كُِنْوَة [كِنْيَة], كُِنْيَة [كِنْي]
a. Surname, epithet; nickname.

كَانٍ (pl.
كُنَاة
[كُنَيَة
9t
a. A], كَانُوْن )
Metaphorist, allegorist.
كِنايَة []
a. Metonymy, metaphor; allegory.
b. Pronoun.
c. Allusion, reference.

كَنِيّa. Namesake; homonym.

مَكْنِيّ [ N. P.
a. I] ['An], That which is alluded to, allusion.
مُكَنَّى [ N. P.
a. II], Surnamed; nicknamed.
b. see 23t (b)
كِنَايَة عَن
a. In place of, instead of.
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