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5 تأنّق ذ He sought, pursued, or desired, the most pleasing of things; (TA;) [he affected nicety, or refinement; he was dainty, nice, exquisite, refined, or scrupulously nice and exact; or chose what was excellent, or best; and he exceeded the usual bounds; as also تَنَوَّقَ and تَنَيَّقَ, in all these senses;] فِى المَطْعَمِ, in respect of food, never eating anything but what was clean [and choice]; and فِى المَلْبَسِ, in respect of apparel, never dressing otherwise than well; and فِى الكَلَامِ, in respect of speech, never speaking otherwise than chastely; and فِى جَمِيعِ الأُمُورِ, in respect of all affairs. (TA in art. نطس.) تأنّق فِيهِ is like تَنَوَّقَ; (JK, S, K;) i. e. He did it, or performed it (namely, a thing, or an affair,) with نِيقَة [i. e. daintiness, nicety, exquisiteness, refinement, neatness, or scrupulous nicety and exactness; or in a manner exceeding what is usual]: (S:) or he chose what was excellent, or best, to be done in it, and did it admirably: (TA:) or he did it (namely, his work, Msb) firmly, solidly, soundly, or thoroughly, (Msb, K,) and skilfully. (K: [but in this last sense, 'Alee Ibn-Hamzeh allows only the latter of these two verbs. TA in art. نوق.]) You say also, تأنّق فُلَانٌ فِى الَّرَّوْضَةِ Such a one found himself in the meadow, or garden, (وَقَعَ فِيهَا,) pleased, or rejoiced, therewith: (S:) or he found it pleasant or delightful, delighted in it, or took pleasure or delight in it, and enjoyed its beauties: and he sought after its beauties, step by step, and was pleased, or rejoiced, therewith, and enjoyed it. (TA.) And تأنّق المَكَانَ He was pleased, or rejoiced, with the place, and attached to it, not quitting it: (L:) he loved the place. (Fr, K.) It is said in a trad. of Ibn-Mes'ood, إِِذَا وَقَعْتُ فِى آلِ ح=م= وَقَعْتُ فِي رَوْضَاتٍ أَتَأَنَّقُهُنَّ, or, as in the T, أَتَأَنَّقُ فِيهِنَّ, meaning [When I find myself in the chapters of the Kur-án commencing with Há Meem,] I find myself in meadows, or gardens, the beauties of which I seek after step by step, and with which I am pleased, or rejoiced, and which I enjoy: i. e., I find pleasure, or delight, in reading them, or reciting them, and enjoy their beauties. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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