إحنة
Arabic
Etymology
Probably prothetic to the root of حَنَان (ḥanān, “affection”), also giving rise to حِنْث (ḥinṯ, “transgression, breach”), while وَحِنَ (waḥina) and أَحِنَ (ʔaḥina), in view of frequency, are denominal from the present term.
Noun
إِحْنَة • (ʔiḥna) f (Classical)
- hatred
- a. 642, بنُ عمروٍ الطَّائِيُّ, quoted in the Kitāb al-Ḥamāsa of Al-Buḥturī[1]:
- إِذَا كَانَ فِي نَفْسِ ٱبْنِ عَمِّكَ إِحْنَةٌ … فَلَا تَسْتَثِرْهَا سَوْفَ يَبْدُو دَفِينُهَا
- ʔiḏā kāna fī nafsi bni ʕammika ʔiḥnatun … falā tastaṯirhā sawfa yabdū dafīnuhā
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- a. 730, Anthony Ashley Bevan, The Naḳāʾiḍ of Jarīr and Al-Farazdaḳ[2], volume 1, Leiden: E.J. Brill, published 1905–1907, page 382 line 3:
Declension
| singular | singular triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | إِحْنَة ʔiḥna |
الْإِحْنَة al-ʔiḥna |
إِحْنَة ʔiḥnat |
| nominative | إِحْنَةٌ ʔiḥnatun |
الْإِحْنَةُ al-ʔiḥnatu |
إِحْنَةُ ʔiḥnatu |
| accusative | إِحْنَةً ʔiḥnatan |
الْإِحْنَةَ al-ʔiḥnata |
إِحْنَةَ ʔiḥnata |
| genitive | إِحْنَةٍ ʔiḥnatin |
الْإِحْنَةِ al-ʔiḥnati |
إِحْنَةِ ʔiḥnati |
References
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 15