كِنَايَة
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ك-ن-ي
The Arabic root ك-ن-ي (k-n-y)
Form I verb كَنَى: allude
3 words in the dictionary are built from ك-ن-ي, including verbs in Forms I, II. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
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Verbs and the nouns that come from them
indicate something metonymically, allude, refer to something in a veiled way; to call someone by a nickname, to give them a nickname; to bear a nickname
كُنْيَة
kunya
كِنْيَة
كَانٍ
مَكْنِيّ
كَنَّى
· present يُكَنِّي
Form II · Causative or intensive
to designate with kunya, to nickname [+ transitive (object)] as
تَكْنِيَة
مُكَنٍّ
مُكَنًّى
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