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1 اَنڤثَ [أَنُثَ, aor. اَنُثَ , inf. n. أَنَاثَةٌ and أُنُوثَةٌ, (see the former of these two ns. below,) It was, or became, female, feminine, or of the feminine gender. ― -b2- And hence, أَنُثَتْ, said of land (أَرْض), (tropical:) It was, or became, such as is termed أَنِيثَة. ― -b3- Hence also,] أَنُثَ, said of iron, (tropical:) It was, or became, soft. (Golius, from the larger of two editions of the lexicon entitled مرقاة اللغة.) Accord. to IAar, softness is the primary signification. (M.) [But accord. to the A, the second and third of the meanings given above are tropical: (see أَنِيثٌ:) and the verb in the first of the senses here assigned to it, if not proper, is certainly what is termed حَقِيقَة عُرْفِيَّة, i. e., conventionally regarded as proper.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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