استهان

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ه و ن (h-w-n).

Verb

اِسْتَهَانَ (istahāna) X, non-past يَسْتَهِينُ‎ (yastahīnu)

  1. to estimate easy, to view as cushy
  2. to treat with disregard, to neglect
  3. to underestimate

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), استهان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 419
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), استهان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1460
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), استهان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1363
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