ديث

1 دَاثَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. دَيْثٌ, It (a thing) was, or became, soft, or supple; and easy: whence the term دَيُّوثٌ. (Msb.) b2: [And hence,] داث, aor. as above, inf. n. دِيَاثَةٌ, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, [a wittol, or tame cuckold; or] without jealousy, and regardless of shame: so in the Nawádir of Aboo-'Alee Zekereeyà Ibn-Hároon Ibn-Zekereeyà

El-Hejeree: (TA:) and ↓ تَدَيُّثٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) the acting the part, or performing the office, [of a دَيُّوث, or wittol; or] of a pimp to one's own wife. (T, K.) 2 ديّثهُ, [inf. n. تَدْيِيثٌ,] He softened, or suppled, it; and made it easy. (Msb.) You say also, دَيَّثَتْهُ الَمَطَارِقُ The instruments called مطارق softened, or suppled, it; namely, a thing. (M.) b2: (tropical:) He made it (a road) even, smooth, or easy to walk or ride upon. (M, TA.) b3: (assumed tropical:) He smoothed it; namely, an affair. (M.) b4: (assumed tropical:) He broke, or trained, him, namely, a camel, in some measure [so as to subdue his refractoriness]. (M.) b5: and in like manner, [He prepared it in some measure; namely,] a skin in the tan, or tanning-liquid: and a spear in the ثِقَاف [or straitening-instrument]. (M.) b6: (assumed tropical:) He subdued him; or rendered him submissive, (S, M, K,) and gentle; namely, a man. (M.) دُيَّثَ بِالصَّغَارِ occurs in a trad. as meaning (assumed tropical:) ذُلِّلَ [i. e. He was subdued, or rendered submissive, by abasement, or by tyranny, oppression, or injury]. (TA.) b7: And (assumed tropical:) It (time, or fortune,) tried him, or proved him, and rendered him experienced, and submissive. (M.) 5 تَدَيَّثَ see 1.

دِيَاثَةٌ (assumed tropical:) The act, or conduct, of the دَيُّوث [or wittol, &c.]. (Msb.) [See also دَاثَ, of which, in the sense assigned to it in the second sentence in this art., it is said to be the inf. n.]

A2: It is also said to signify A distortion in the tongue: so in the Nh: or, as some say, the word in this sense is دِثَاثَةٌ. (TA.) دَيُّوثٌ, (written by some دَيُوثٌ, without tesh-deed, which is strange, TA,) a word of wellknown meaning, (K,) (assumed tropical:) [A wittol, or tame cuckold;] one to whose wife another man comes with his [the husband's] knowledge: (Th, M:) or one to whose wife other men go in so that he sees them; as though he had softened, or suppled, [or tamed,] himself to endure this: (M:) or one who is not jealous of him who goes in to his wife: (Mgh:) or a pimp to his own wife: (T:) or one who is not jealous of his wife: (T, Msb:) or i. q. قُنْذُعٌ; i. e. one who has no jealousy: (S:) or a submissive, compliant, man, without jealousy: (A:) said to be an arabicized word from the Syriac: or from مُدِيَّثٌ as an epithet applied to a camel, explained below; and if so, tropical: (TA:) or from دَاثَ [q. v.]. (Msb.) مُدَيَّثٌ (assumed tropical:) A camel broken, or trained, so that his refractoriness is subdued: (T:) or (tropical:) broken, or trained, but not thoroughly. (A.) b2: (tropical:) A road beaten, or trodden, (S, A, TA,) and made even, or easy to walk or ride upon: (S, TA:) or that has been travelled until it has become plain, or conspicuous. (T, TA.)

قيس

1 قاس الشَىْءَ بِغَيْرِهِ, and عَلَى غَيْرِهِ, (S, A, * Msb, * K *; the first and last in this art. and in art. قوس;) and إِلَى غَيْرِهِ, (A, TA,) aor. ـِ (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. قَيْسٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and قِيَاسٌ, (S, A, K,) [which latter is the more common,] He measured the thing (S, A, Msb. K) by another thing (S, Msb, K) like it; (S, K;) [both in the proper sense and mentally; often meaning he compared the thing with another thing;] as also قَاسَهُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. قَوْسٌ (S, Msb, K; the first and last in art. قوس;) and قِيَاسٌ; (S;) [the latter of which verbs, though the less common, is, accord. to the JK, the original;] and so ↓ اقتاسهُ; (A, K;) and ↓ قيّسهُ; (TA;) and so بِهِ ↓ قايسهُ, (Msb,) and إِلَيْهِ, (TA,) inf. n. مُقَايَسَةٌ and قِيَاسٌ: (Msb:) the first of these verbs is said to be trans. by means of على because implying the meaning of founding [a thing upon another thing]; and by means of الى because implying the meaning of adjoining or conjoining and collecting [a thing to another thing]. (MF.) You say, قَاسَهُ بِالْمِقْيَاسِ [He measured it with the measure]. (A.) and قَاسَ الطَّبِيبُ قَعْرَ الجِرَاحَةِ, (TA,) and قَاسَ الشَّحَّةَ, (A,) inf. n. قَيْسٌ, (TA,) The physician measured the depth of the wound, (TA,) and the depth of the wound in the head, (A,) بِالْمِقْيَاسِ with the probe. (A, TA.) And جَارِيَةٌ تَخْطُو قَيْسًا (tropical:) A damsel that steps with even, or equal, steps: (A:) or قَيْسًا signifies with measured steps, at a moderate and just pace, as though with equal steps: (IAth:) or قَيْسٌ signifies the walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side. (K.) And فُلَانٌ يَأْتِى بِمَا يَأْتِى قَيْسًا (tropical:) [Such a one does what he does, or says what he says, by measure, or by rule]. (A.) b2: [Hence, (assumed tropical:) He determined, or judged of, the thing by comparing it with another thing; i. e., by analogy: and he compared the thing with another thing. and قَاسَ عَلَيْهِ He judged by comparison therewith. And He copied it as a model.]2 قَيَّسَ see 1.3 قايسهُ بِهِ, and إلَيْهِ: see 1. You say, قَبَحَ اللّٰهُ قَوْمًا يُسَوِّدُونَكَ وَيُقَايِسُونَ بِرَأْيِكَ [May God remove far from prosperity a people who make thee lord, or chief, and who measure things by thy judgment, or by thine opinion]. (A, TA.) b2: قَايَسْتُ بَيْنَ الأَمْرَيْنِ, (S, K,) or الشَّيْئَيْنِ, (A,) inf. n. مُقَايَسَةٌ and قِيَاسٌ, (S,) I measured, or compared, the two things, or cases, together; syn. قَدَّرْتُ, (K,) or قَادَرْتُ بِيْنَهُمَا. (L.) b3: قَايَسْتُهُ, (K,) i. e., قَايَسْتُ فُلَانًا, (S,) i. q. جَارَيْتُهُ فِى القِيَاسِ [I vied, or contended, with him, namely, such a one, in measuring, or comparing; app. meaning, in measuring, or comparing, myself, or my abilities, with him, or his: see قَادَرْتُهُ]. b4: [This verb is mentioned in the S in art. قوس.]6 تقايس القَوْمُ The people mentioned [and app. compared] their several wants (مَآرِبَهُمْ [but I think it probable that this is a mistranscription for مَآثِرَهُمْ their generous qualities or the like]). (TA.) 7 انقاس It was, or became, measured by another thing like it. (S, in art. قوس; and K, in the present art.) b2: (assumed tropical:) [It was, or became, determined, or judged of, by comparison, or analogy.] You say, هٰذِهِ مَسْئَلَةٌ لَا تَنْقَاسُ (assumed tropical:) [This is a question not to be determined, or judged of, by comparison, or analogy]. (A, TA.) 8 إِقْتَيَسَ see 1. b2: هُوَ يَقْتَاسُ بِأَبِيهِ He follows the way of his father, and imitates him. (S, K, in art. قوس; and mentioned in the K in the present art. also.) The medial radical is both و and ى. (K.) قَاسُ رُمْحٍ: see قِيسُ رُمْحٍ.

بَيْنَهُمَا قِيسُ رُمْحٍ (S, A, K *) and رُمْحٍ ↓ قَاسُ (S, K) Between them two is the measure of a spear: (S, K: *) like قِيدُ رُمْحٍ (TA) [and قَادُ رُمْحٍ]. And هٰذِهِ الخَشَبَةُ قِيسُ إِصْيَعٍ This piece of wood is of the measure of a finger. (A, * TA.) [Both are said in the A to be tropical; but wherefore, 1 see not.]

قِيَاسٌ: see 1 and 3. b2: [Used as a simple subst., Measurement. b3: Comparison. b4: Ratiocination. b5: The premises of a syllogism, taken together: and also applied to a syllogism entire. b6: Analogy: rule. You say, هٰذَا عَلَى القِيَاسِ This is according to analogy, or to rule. And هٰذَا عَلَى غَيْرِ قيَاسٍ This is contrary to analogy, or to rule. And عَلَى قِيَاسِ كَذَا After the manner of such a thing.]

قِيَاسِىٌّ Mensural. b2: Comparative. b3: Ratiocinative. b4: Relating, or belonging, to the premises of a syllogism: and also, syllogistic. b5: Analogous; regular: as also ↓ مَقِيسٌ, improperly written by some European scholars مُقَيَّسٌ.]

قَيَّاسٌ A man who practises قِيَاس [i. e. measurement, or comparison, &c.,] much, or often. (TA.) A2: Also, i. q. قَوَّاسٌ, q. v. (TA.) قَائِسٌ act. part. n. of 1. b2: One who measures the depth of a wound in the head [&c.] with a probe. (TA.) مَقِيسٌ pass. part. n. of 1. You say, هُوَ مَقِيسٌ عَلَيْهِ [and بِهِ, meaning, He, or it, is a person, or thing, whereby others are measured; to which others are compared; an object of imitation; a model, an exemplar, or a standard]. (A, TA.) b2: See also قِيَاسِىٌّ.

مِقْيَاسٌ A measure, or thing with which anything is measured; syn. مِقْدَارٌ: (S, Msb, K:) pl. مَقَايِيسُ. (A.) You say, قَاسَهُ بِالْمِقْيَاسِ [He measured it with the measuring-instrument]. (A.) And قَصُرَ مِقْيَاسُكَ فِى مِقْيَاسِى Thy measure (مِثَالُكَ) fell short of my measure. (TA.) b2: A probe with which the depth of a wound is measured. (A, TA.) b3: مِقْيَاسُ النِّيلِ The Nilometer. (TA.)

قيس: قيس على: (بوشر).
قاس: جرب الشيء ليرى إذا كان على قده، يقال: قاس الثوب وقاس الحذاء. (الكالا).
قاس: تدربن وبخاصة تدرب على استعمال السلاح في المبارزة والقتال. (الكالا).
قاس: سبر، حج الجرح، قدر غوره. (ففي كتاب العقود (ص5): أصيب رجل بجرح في رأسه فقاسه الحكيم وإذ هو قد بلغ العظم.
قاس: حكم في خلاف، فصل في أمر بوصفه حكما. (الكالا).
قاس: صوب، سدد نحو الهدف. (بوشر، ودلأبورت ص141).
قاس: رش الماء، صب الماء. (دوماس حياة العرب ص484).
قيس: مسح الأرض، قدر مساحتها. (هلة).
قايس: قارن بشيء آخر، ووازن بينهما.
ويقال: قايس له أو قايس ب (فوك).
أقيس، قارن، وازن. ويقال: اقس مع (فوك).
قيس: والجمع اقياس: مقياس, ما سقاس به من أداة أو آلة. (فوك).
قيس: حوالي، زهاء، قرب نحو من تقريبا (فوك).
بقيس: بعده، في أثره، وراءه. (فوك).
قيسة. عود القيسة: انظرها في مادة عود. قياس وجمعه قياسات. (فوك بوشر، أبو الوليد ص 149، ص 407، المقدمة 3: 140) واقيسة (فوك المقدمة 2: 342).
قياس: استبدال، برهان، برهنة، تحقيق القول وإثباته بالبراهين. (بوشر، دي ساسي طرائف 1: 91).
قياس: استدلال جدلي، قياسي. (المقدمة 3: 140).
قياس: حجة، دليل، برهان. (بوشر).
قياس: استنتاج، ما يستنتج. (بوشر). قياس: فرضية، ظنية، رأى ما اثبت بعد. (بوشر).
بالقياس: بالحدس، بالتخمين، بالظن. (بوشر).
بتاع قياسات: صاحب منهج، صاحب نظرية، ذو فكر منهجي نظامي. (بوشر).
بالقياس إلى: بالنسبة إلى. (دي ساسي طرائف 2: 323).
بعيد عن القياس: محال، مستحيل، ما يضاد العقل والصواب، خلف (تاريخ البربر 2: 3).
قياس: قوة التمييز، قوة الإدراك والفهم التي تقارن وتحكم. (الكالا) وفيه (=عقل).
قياس: مقياس، ما تقاس به الكميات والأحجام. (فوك، الكالا، بوشر).
قياس: مقاس القدم الذي يأخذه الاسكاف. (دلابورت ص90).
بقياس: بحشمة، بهدوء، تمثيل. برصانة، بتعقل، بحكمة، باحتشام. (الكالا).
قياس: باع، طول ذراعين مقياس بحري يتراوح طوله بين متر ونصف ومترين.
(الكالا= قامة، معجم الأسبانية ص185).
قياس: بقياس، خط مقسم إلى درجات تدل على المسافات. (بوشر).
قياس: تسوية، تمهيد، توطئة، تعديل (بوشر).
بقياس: مساواة. على المستوى الأفقي. (الكالا).
قياس: آلة يعرف بها إذا ما كان السطح أفقيا أي في وضع أفقي. (بوشر).
قياس: تحكيم، وقرار يصدره حكم في موضوع خصومه. (الكالا).
قياس: مادة، موضع بحث. (الكالا).
قياس: تجربة ثوب جديد لمعرفة ملاءمته للجسم. أو عينة من شيء ما. كعينة من النبيذ للحكم عليه (الكالا).
قياس: تدريب على استعمال السلاح، تدريب على القتال. (الكالا).
قياس: غطاء (شرشف) الأريكة ذو أهداب (بوشر).
قياس: عند بعض العامة ضرب من الحصر دقيق القش محكم النسيج. (محيط المحيط).
قياس، والجمع قياسات: شرت. قشب، تقشر وورم من البرد. (بوشر).
علم القياس: فن ترسم وتصور به الأشياء بحسب رؤية العين، وهو قسم من علم البصريات (الكالا).
علم القياس: علم الهندسة. (همبرت ص92).
قياسة، والجمع قيايس: مركب شحن، صندل سفينة. (بوشر، مملوك 2، 2: 273). ويقول لايت (ص123) بالإنكليزية ما معناه: (وبدأت انحدر في النيل في قيش صغير أو مركب للنقل). صندل.
ويقول فيسكيه (ص60): كياسه قارب يستعمل للملاحة حين انحسار المياه، وهو قارب مسطح بطيء في سيره.
قياسي: جدلي، مختص بالجدل وهو القياس المنطقي. (بوشر).
قياسي: فرضي، افتراضي، ما كان بحسب قياس أو قاعدة. نسقي، منهجي. (بوشر).
قياس: مساح الأراضي. (فوك، بوشر).
قياس: ممهد، مسو، موطئ. أو الذي يقيس ويقدر بالفادن (بوشر).
أقيس: أكثر انسجاما مع القياس. (أبو الوليد ص161).
مقيس: حكم، وسيط. (الكالا).
مقيس: تحكيمي، وقرار الحكم. (الكالا).
مقيس: من يتدرب على الحرب، ومن يتدرب على استعمال الأسلحة. (الكالا).
مقياس، والجمع مقاييس: فرجار، بركار. (أماري ص18). ويقول رينو (جغرافية أبو الفدا ص67). في تعليقه على هذه العبارة: تطلق هذه الكلمة على ميل الزولة وهي الساعة الشمسية.
وهي مرادفة للكلمة اليونانية جنومون gnomon.
مقياس: مسبار، آلة لمعرفة عمق الماء. (فليشر معجم ص11).
مقياس الزمان: ميقت، آلة تعرف بها الأوقات (بوشر).
مقياس، والجمع مقاييس ومقايس: مثال، شبه، تماثل، تشابه. (الكامل ص112، المقري 1: 483، المقدمة 2: 349).
مقياس: هو في المغرب حلقة كبيرة من الذهب أو الفضة في شكل السوار تلبسها النساء في أرجلهن وأذرعهن. (الكالا، دومب ص82) وعند مارمول (2: 4): مكياز. وفيه (ص103): (وحليهن حبقات كبيرة من الذهب أو الفضة يسمينها مكايز). وهن لا يلبسن منها إلا حلقة واحدة في كل ذراع، وهذه الحلقات من الضخامة بحيث تزن الواحدة منها مائة دوكا (وهي نقد ذهبي قديم في البندقية) إن كانت من ذهب، وتزن عشرة دوكات أو اثني عشر دوكا إن كانت من فضة (هوست ص120). ويقول ميشيل (ص190): مكاييز حلقات كبيرة من الذهب حول كعب القدم (ص235): وعند بوسييه: مقياسة، والجمع مقياس ومقايس: سوار من العاج أو من المعدن. ففي كتاب العقود (ص4): وزوج الأساور وزوج المقياسة.
منقاس: قيس بالقامة وهي مقياس يساوي ستة أقدام. (بوشر).

ميل

1 مَالَ [He, or it, inclined, leant, bent, propended, tended, declined, deviated, or deflected.]

b2: مَالَ مَعَهُ and ↓ مَايَلَهُ He conformed with, and assisted, or aided, him. (TA.) b3: مَالَ إِلَيْهِ He loved him. (TA.) b4: He wronged him. (TA.) He was, or became, inimical to him. b5: مَالَتِ الدَّابَّةُ مِنْ رِجْلِهَا (K, art. غمز,) i. q. ظَلَعَتْ [It limped]. (TA.) 2 مَيَّلَ بَيْنَ شَيْئَيْنِ He wavered, or vacillated, between two things. (S, MA.) See 10.3 مَايَلَهُ He inclined towards him reciprocally: and مَايَلَا they two inclined each towards the other. (TK, art. هود.) See also مَالَ مَعَهُ in 1.5 تَمَيَّلَ See 6. b2: تَمَيَّلَ بِالقَوْلِ He vacillated in the saying: see تَرَجَّحَ.6 تَمَايَلَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ [He affected an inclining of his body, or a bending, or he inclined his body, or bent, from side to side, in his gait; a meaning well known, and still common]; (S;) syn. تَثَنَّى. (Har, p. 269.) b2: See تَزَايُغٌ. b3: تَمَايَلَتْ فِى

مِشْيَتِهَا and ↓ تَمَيَّلَتْ signify the same. (TA.) b4: تَمَايَلَ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ; and عَنْ طَرِيقِهِ: i. q. تَجَانَفَ [He affected a deviation, or purposely deviated from his course, &c.] (TA in art. جنف.) 10 استمالهُ

, and استمال بِقَلْبِهِ, (S, K,) He inclined him, and his heart. (K.) b2: اِسْتَمَالَهُ He attracted him to himself; or sought to make him incline. (MA.) b3: استمال is a quasi-pass. of ↓ مَيَّلَهُ. (K, * TA.) مِيلٌ as used by the Arabs, [A mile:] The distance to which the eye reaches along land: accord. to the ancient astronomers, three thousand cubits: accord to the moderns, four thousand cubits: but the difference is merely verbal; for they agree that its extent is ninety-six thousand digits; [about 5166 English feet;] each digit being the measure of six barley-corns, each placed with its belly next to another; but the ancients say that the cubit is thirty-two digits; which makes the mile three thousand cubits. (Msb, which see for more.) See also مُطْلِبٌ b2: ميِلٌ i. q.

مُلْمُولٌ, [A style]. (K.) مَيْلٌ Inclination; leaning; bent; propensity; tendency.

مَيَلٌ A natural wryness. (S.) مِيلَانِ (?) of a مَحَالَة of a well: see ثِنَايَةٌ.

مَيَّالٌ [i. q.

مُتَمَايِلٌ, Inclining much]. (A, art. فيد.) See سَيَّالٌ.

أَمْيَلُ Swaying on horseback: see an ex. of its pl. مِيلٌ in a verse cited voce أَشْعَلَ. b2: عِمَّةٌ مَيْلَآءُ: see قَفْدَآءُ.

امالةُ الأَلِفِ The inclining of the sound of ا when quiescent, after fet-hah, towards the sound of ى; so that the fet-hah, with that ا, composes a sound the same as that of the long “ e ” in the English word “ there. ” This is accordant with present usage; and I have not found any learned Arab who asserts otherwise. See also نَابٌ, and حَجَّاجٌ, and مَشُوبٌ.

حك

ى1 حَكَيْتُ الحَدِيثَ, aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. حِكَايَةٌ; (TA;) and حَكَوْتُهُ, aor. ـُ (K;) [I related, recited, rehearsed, narrated, or told, the narrative, story, tradition, &c.:] both signify the same. (K.) And حَكَيْتُ عَنْهُ الكَلَامَ, inf. n. as above; (S, K;) and حَكَوْتُهُ; (AO, S;) i. q. نَقَلْتُهُ [meaning I transmitted, quoted, or transcribed, from him, the speech, discourse, saying, sentence, or the like; reported, related, recited, rehearsed, narrated, told, or mentioned, the speech, &c., as from him]. (K.) b2: حَكَيْتُ الشَّىْءَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, I did the like of the thing; as, for instance, another person's art: I imitated it; or emulated it: as also حَكَوْتُهُ, aor. ـُ (Msb.) One is related to have said, لَا أَحْكُو كَلَامَ رَبِّى, meaning I will not imitate, or emulate, the words of my Lord. (ISk, Msb.) And you say, حَكَيْتُ فُلَانًا; and ↓ حَاكَيْتُهُ, (K,) inf. n. مُحَاكَاةٌ; (TA;) [I imitated such a one;] I did the deed of such a one: (K:) or I said the like of the saying of such a one, exactly; (K, * TA;) not exceeding it: (TA:) and حَكَيْتُ فِعْلَهُ, and ↓ حَاكَيْتُهُ, I did the like of his deed: (S:) but in relation to what is had, foul, or unseemly, the latter verb is most used. (TA.) b3: And حَكَيْتُهُ and ↓ حَاكَيْتُهُ I resembled him, (K,) and it. (TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ يَحْكِى الشَّمْسَ حُسْنًا; and ↓ يُحَاكِيهَا, inf. n. as above; Such a one resembles the sun in beauty. (S.) A2: حَكَى and ↓ احكى He tightened a knot; (S, K;) and made it strong: (IKtt, TA:) dial. vars. of حَكَأَ and أَحْكَأَ. (S.) 3 حَاْكَىَ see 1, in four places.4 أَحْكَىَ see 1, last sentence.

A2: احكى عَلَيْهِمْ i. q. أَبَرَّ [He overcame them; &c.]. (Sgh, K.) 8 احتكى أَمْرِى My affair was, or became, in a firm, solid, sound, or good, state. (K.) b2: احتكى ذٰلِكَ فِى صَدْرِى That came into my mind. (Fr, TA.) [See also اِحْتَكَأَ; and see اِحْتَكَّ in the first paragraph of art. حك.]

اِمْرَأَةٌ حَكِىٌّ A calumnious woman; (K;) one who repeats the sayings of others in a calumnious manner. (TA.) حِكَايَةٌ inf. n. of 1. (S, Msb, K.) b2: [Used as a simple subst., it signifies A narrative, story, or tale:] pl. حَكَايَاتٌ. (TA.) b3: As a conventional term in grammar, [meaning Imitation, or conforming, in language,] it is of two kinds: حِكَايَةُ جُمْلَةٍ [The imitation of a proposition, or phrase], and حِكَايَةُ مُفْرَدٍ [The imitation of a single word]: the former is of two sorts; one of which is termed حِكَايَةُ مَلْفُوظٍ [The imitation of a thing uttered], whereof قَالُوا الحَمْدُ للّٰهِ [They said, “Praise be to God,” (Kur vii. 41,)] is an ex.; and the other, حِكَايَةُ مَكْتُوبٍ [The imitation of a thing written], whereof قَرَأْتُ عَلَى فَصِّهِ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللّٰهِ [I read upon his ring-stone, “Mohammad is the Apostle of God,”] is an ex.: and the latter kind, also, (that of a single word,) is of two sorts; one of which is with the interrogative أَىٌّ or مَنْ, as when, to one who says, رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا [pronounced رَجُلَا, I saw a man], you say, أَيَّا [What (man)?], or مَنَا [Whom?], and the like, which sort is agreeable with a common rule; the other sort being without an interrogative, as the saying of one of the Arabs, to one who said, هَاتَانِ تَمْرَتَانِ [These are two dates], دَعْنَا مِنْ تَمْرَتَانِ [Abstain thou from troubling us about two dates], which sort is anomalous. (El-Ashmoonee's Expos. of the Alfeeyeh of Ibn-Málik.) [حِكَايَةُ صَوْتٍ signifies A word imitative of a sound; an onomatopœia: see اِسْمُ صَوْتٍ

in art. سمو.]