Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry وهن
1 وَهَنَ He was, or became, weak, or infirm, in an affair, and in operation, and in body; (Msb:) and so said of a bone: (Bd, and Jel in xix. 3:) and he was, or became, languid, languid and faint, or lax in the joints; (TA, Bd in iii.
140;) enervated, unnerved, or broken in energy; (Bd, ubi suprà;) cowardly. (TA, Jel in iii. 140.)
See also 4.
2 وَهَّنَ see 4.
4 أَوْهَنَهُ He, or it, weakened him: [rendered him languid, languid and faint, or lax in the joints; enervated him, unnerved him, or broke his energy; rendered him cowardly: (see وَهَنَ:)] (S, Msb, K:) and ↓ وَهَنَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) but the former is the better, (Msb,) and ↓ وَهَّنَهُ. (S, K.) وَهْنٌ The period about midnight; (S, K;) or the time after an hour, or a short period, (سَاعَة,) of the night: (JK, K, TA:) or when the night is departing. (S.) See إِنْىٌ.
عِرْقُ الوَاهِنَةِ The cephalic vein: see فَلِيقٌ.
وَهْنَانَةٌ I. q.
وَنَاةٌ, q. v.; and see أَنَاةٌ.
تَوَهُّنٌ Weak, languid, unable to rise: see عُدَوَآءُ.
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.
