استنى

From Arabic *اِسْتَأَنَّى (*istaʔannā), an alternative pan-dialectal form of تَأَنَّى (taʔannā).

استنى • (istanna) X (non-past يستنى (yistanna))

1. to wait (for)

• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986), “ء ن ى 1”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎^[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 42

From Arabic *اِسْتَأَنَّى (*istaʔannā), an alternative pan-dialectal form of تَأَنَّى (taʔannā).

• IPA^(key): /as.tan.na/

استنى • (astanna) X (non-past يِسْتَنَّى (yistanna))

1. to wait (for)

   Synonym: اَنْتَظَر (antaẓar)

From Arabic *اِسْتَأَنَّى (*istaʔannā), an alternative pan-dialectal form of تَأَنَّى (taʔannā).

• IPA^(key): /stan.na/

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استنى • (stanna) X (non-past يستنى (yistanna))

1. (transitive, intransitive) to wait

   Synonyms: اتسنى (tsanna), ساين (sāyin), سانى (sāna), عاين (ʕāyin)

From Arabic *اِسْتَأَنَّى (*istaʔannā), an alternative pan-dialectal form of تَأَنَّى (taʔannā) related to the pattern of استْلَقَّى (istlaʔʔa, “to catch, receive”), اسْتْنَاوَل (istnāwal, “to receive, take over”), and a dwindling set of other words. Most words of this set have been or are being regularized to form V, such as تْلَقَّى (itlaʔʔa) and تْنَاوَل (itnāwal), but اِسْتَنَّى (istanna) has resisted this fate because the loss of the original hamza has made the verb's relationship to form V too opaque to recover.

• IPA^(key): /is.tan.na/, [ɪsˈtan.na]

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استنّى • (istanna) X (present بستنّى (bistanna))

1. to wait

   خلّينا نستنّى نشوف شو بتحكي المسّ

   ḵallīna nistanna nšūf šū btiḥki l-miss

   Let's wait to see what the teacher says.