ك ه ن

Arabic

Root

ك ه ن • (k-h-n)

1. related to foretelling

Derived terms

• Form I: كَهَنَ (kahana, “to divine, to foretell, to predicate, to speculate”)
  • Verbal noun: كَهَانَة (kahāna)
  • Active participle: كَاهِن (kāhin)
  • Passive participle: مَكْهُون (makhūn)
• Form IV: أَكْهَنَ (ʔakhana, “to conjecture”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْهَان (ʔikhān)
  • Active participle: مُكْهِن (mukhin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْهَن (mukhan)
• Form V: تَكَهَّنَ (takahhana, “to divine, to foretell, to predicate, to speculate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَهُّن (takahhun)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَهِّن (mutakahhin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَكَهَّن (mutakahhan)

• كَاهِن (kāhin, “prophet; priest”)
• كِهَانَة (kihāna, “art of foretelling, augury; priesthood”)
• كَهِين (kahīn, “magician”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك ه ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 495–496
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ه ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 68
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ه ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1125