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دَنَا , (T, M, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) first pers.
دَنَوْتُ, (T, S,) aor.
يَدْنُو, (T, Msb,) inf. n.
دُنُوٌّ
(T, S, M, Msb, K) and
دَنَاوَةٌ, (M, K,)
He, or
it,
was, or
became, near; drew near, or
approached;
(T, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓
ادنى; (IAar,
T, K;) and ↓
دنّى, inf. n.
تَدْنِيَةٌ; (IAar, T;) and
↓
دانى, inf. n.
مُدَانَاةٌ; (KL, but only the inf. n.
is there mentioned;) and ↓
اِدَّنَى, inf. n.
اِدِّنَآءٌ:
(TA:) it is either
in person, or
substance, or
in
respect of predicament, and
in place, and
in
time: (El-Harállee, TA:) you say,
دَنَا مِنْهُ, (M,
Mgh, Msb,) and
دَنَوْتُ مِنْهُ, (T, S,) and
إِلَيْهِ, (M,
Msb,) and
لَهُ, (TA,) and
عَلَيْهِ occurs in a verse of
Sá'ideh as meaning
مِنْهُ, (M,)
He, or
it, and
I,
was, or
became, near, &c.,
to him, or
it: (T, M,
Mgh, Msb:) [and in like manner you use the
other verbs mentioned above, except ↓
دانى,
which is immediately trans.: or
دَنَا مِنْهُ with
دَنَاوَةٌ for its inf. n. means, or means also,
He was
near to him in respect of kindred; was related to
him: for]
دَنَاوَةٌ is
syn. with قَرَابَةٌ (S, M, K) and
قُرْبَى: (M, K:) you say,
بَيْنَهُمَا دَنَاوَةٌ meaning
قَرَابَةٌ [i. e.
Between them two is relationship];
(S;) and
مَا تَزْدَادُ مِنَّا إِلَّا قُرْبًا وَدَنَاوَةٍ [
Thou increasest not save in nearness and relationship to
us]. (ISk, T, S.) A rájiz says,
مَا لِى أَرَاهُ دَالِفًا قَدْدُنْىَ لَهُ
meaning
دُنِىَ لَهُ [i. e.
What hath happened to me
that
I see him walking gently or
with short steps,
or
rendered lowly by age, having been approached
by death?]: it is from
دَنَوْتُ, but the
و is changed
into
ى because of the kesreh before it, and then
the
ن is made quiescent: and there are similar
instances of contraction of verbs: but [ISd says,]
I know not
دُنْىَ except in this instance; and As
used to say of the poem in which this occurs,
This rejez is not ancient: it is app. of Khalaf ElAhmar or some other of the Muwelleds. (M.)
One says also,
دَنَتِ الشَّمْسُ لِلْمَغُرُوبِ and ↓
أَدْنَت
[
The sun was, or
became, near to setting]. (M.) ＝
1-A2-
دَنِىَ, (T, M, K, TA, [in the CK,
ما كانَ دَنْيَا
ولقد دَنا is erroneously put for
مَا كَانَ دَنِيًا وَلَقَدْ
دَنِىَ,]) like
رَضِىَ, (TA,) aor.
يَدْنَى, (T,) inf. n.
دَنًا (T, M, K) and
دَنَايَةٌ, (T, K, TA,) or
دِنَايَةٌ;
(M, accord. to the TT; and so in the CK; [app.
a mistranscription occasioned by a misunderstanding of what here follows;]) the
ى [in
دَنِىَ]
being substituted for
و because of the nearness of
the kesreh; all on the authority of Lh; (M;) and
دَنُوَ, aor.
يَدْنُو, without
ء, inf. n.
دَنَآءَةٌ, with
ء,
(ISk, T,) and
دُنُوٌّ; (T;) or
دَنَا, aor.
يَدْنُو, inf. n.
دَنَاوَةٌ;
i. q. دَنَأَ and
دَنُؤَ; (Msb;) [i. e.]
He (a man,
T, M)
was, or
became, such as is termed ↓
دَنِىٌّ;
(T, M, Msb, K;) and
دَنِىْءٌ; (Msb;) meaning
weak; contemptible (
خَسِيسٌ);
not profitable to
any one; who falls short in everything upon
which he enters: (T: [like
مُدَنٍّ:]) or
low,
ignoble, or
mean; (
سَاقِطٌ;)
weak; (M, K;)
such
as, when night affords him covert, will not quit
his place, by reason of weakness: (M:) or
low,
ignoble, or
mean, (
لَئِيمٌ,)
in his actions, or
conduct; bad, evil, or
foul; accord. to the explanation of
دَنَا by Es-Sarakustee: but some distinguish
between
دَنِىْءٌ and
دَنِىٌّ; making the former to
signify “ low, ignoble, or mean; ” (
لَئِيمٌ;) and the
latter,
خَسِيسٌ [app. as meaning
contemptible].
(Msb, and so the latter is explained in the Mgh.)