ن ك ه

Arabic

Root

ن ك ه • (n-k-h)

1. related to breath at the nostrils

Derived terms

• Form I: نَكَهَ (nakaha, “to blow into the nostrils of, to exhale one’s spirit towards”)
  • Verbal noun: نَكْه (nakh)
  • Active participle: نَاكِه (nākih)
  • Passive participle: مَنْكُوه (mankūh)
• Form II: نَكَّهَ (nakkaha, “to flavour, to add aroma to”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْكِيه (tankīh)
  • Active participle: مُنَكِّه (munakkih)
  • Passive participle: مُنَكَّه (munakkah)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْكَهَ (istankaha, “to try to perceive the breath of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْكَاه (istinkāh)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْكِه (mustankih)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْكَه (mustankah)

• نَكْهَة (nakha, “exhaled smell, aroma, scent, flavour”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ك ه”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 724a
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ك ه”, 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 336b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ك ه”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 4, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1345b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ك ه”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 1147
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ك ه”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1172a