Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry نجو
1 نَجَا Alvum dejecit; (Msb, TA;) ventumve per anum emisit: (TA:) he voided his ordure; or broke wind.
نَجَا, inf. n. نَجَآءٌ, He was quick, or swift, and outstripped. (S.) See an ex. of the inf. n., voce غولٌ.
نَجَا He became safe, or secure; he escaped. (Msb, &c.) 2 نَجَّوَ see 4.
4 أَنْجَاهُ and ↓ نَجَّاهُ He saved, him; rescued him; preserved him. (K.) 10 اِسْتَنْجَى He washed, or wiped with a stone or a piece of dry clay, the place [of exit] of his excrement. (Msb.)
اِسْتَنْجَوْا: see 8 in art. سعر.
نَجْوٌ and نَجَآءٌ A shower of rain.
See شُوْبُوبٌ and 1.
نجاء A well of which the water is distant [from the mouth]. (O, TA, voce قَرَبٌ.) نَجْوَةٌ An elevated piece of land. (Msb.) نَجِىٌّ : see نَجْوَى.
عُرْيَانُ النَّجِىِّ: see art. عرى.
نَجْوَى Secret discourse between two persons or parties. (TA.)
A secret between two persons or parties; as also ↓ نَجِىٌّ. (K, TA.)
A person, or persons, discoursing secretly, or telling secrets one with another. (TA.) مَنْجَاةٌ [A cause, or means, of safety: of the measure مَفْعَلَةٌ, originally مَنْجَوَةٌ; similar to مَفْلَحَةٌ, &c.]. (S.) نَجَيْتُ a dial. var. of نَجَوْتُ: see دَوْكَةٌ.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
