ك ن ي

Arabic

Root

ك ن ي • (k-n-y)

1. related to giving epithets

Derived terms

• Form I: كَنَى (kanā, “indicate something metaphorically, allude, refer to something in a veiled way; to call someone by a nickname, to give them a nickname; (in the passive) to bear a nickname”)
  • Verbal noun: كِنَايَة (kināya), كُنْيَة (kunya), كِنْيَة (kinya)
  • Active participle: كَانٍ (kānin)
• Form II: كَنَّى (kannā, “to give someone a nickname or epithet”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْنِيَة (takniya)
  • Active participle: مُكَنٍّ (mukannin)
  • Passive participle: مُكَنًّى (mukannan)
• Form IV: أَكْنَى (ʔaknā, “to give someone a nickname or epithet”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْنَاء (ʔiknāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُكْنٍ (muknin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْنًى (muknan)
• Form VIII: اِكْتَنَى (iktanā, “to be nicknamed”)
  • Verbal noun: اِكْتِنَاء (iktināʔ)
  • Active participle: مُكْتَنٍ (muktanin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْتَنًى (muktanan)

• كَانٍ (kānin, “one who uses a metaphor, who alludes to something or someone using a word other than the proper name”); pl. كُنَاة (kunāh) كَانُون (kānūn)
• كُنْيَة (kunya, “nickname; metaphor”), also كِنْيَة (kinya), كِنْوَة (kinwa), كُنْوَة (kunwa); pl. كُنًى (kunan)
• كَنِى (“someone who bears the same nickname as another”)
• كِنَايَة (kināya, “nickname”)

References

• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ن ي”, 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^[1] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 938