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ن-ه-ي

The Arabic root ن-ه-ي (n-h-y)

Form I verb نَهَى: to forbid

8 words in the dictionary are built from ن-ه-ي, including verbs in Forms I, IV, VI, VIII. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Verb · Form VIII
to end
Verb · Form IV
to end
Adjective
final
Verb · Form I
نَهَى
to forbid
Noun
نَهْي
a prohibition

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

نَهَى · present يَنْهَى
Form I · The plain action

to forbid; to hold back; to make something reach

نَهْي
Verbal noun
a prohibition
نَاهٍ
Active participle
مَنْهِيّ
Passive participle
أَنْهَى · present يُنْهِي
Form IV · Causative

to end, to terminate, to finish

إِنْهَاء
Verbal noun
مُنْهٍ
Active participle
مُنْهًى
Passive participle
تَنَاهَى · present يَتَنَاهَى
Form VI · Mutual action

to be completed, communicated to; to prohibit, forbid each other from

تَنَاهٍ
Verbal noun
مُتَنَاهٍ
Active participle
مُتَنَاهًى
Passive participle
اِنْتَهَى · present يَنْتَهِي
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to end; to give up, to desist, to cease, to stop doing something, to refrain (عَن (ʕan) something); to finish (مِن (min) something)

Verbal noun
finishing
مُنْتَهٍ
Active participle
مُنْتَهًى
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

Noun
end
Adjective
final

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