حنية

Arabic

Root
ح ن و (ḥ-n-w)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħa.nij.ja/

Noun

حَنِيَّة • (ḥaniyya) f (plural حَنَايَا (ḥanāyā))

1. curvature, bow
2. arc, camber, low-slung recess, a curved or bowed structure or building
   • 1377, Ibn Khaldun, Prolegomena‎^[1]:

     وَرُبَّمَا يَتَوَهَّمُ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ إِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَى آثَارِ ٱلْأَقْدَمِينَ وَمَصَانِعِهِمُ ٱلْعَظِيمَةِ مِثْلَ إِيوَانِ كِسْرَى وَأَهْرَامِ مِصْرَ وَحَنَايَا ٱلْمُعَلَّقَةِ وَشَرْشَالَ بِٱلْمَغْرِبِ إِنَّمَا كَانَتْ بِقَدْرِهِمْ مُتَفَرِّقِينَ أَوْ مُجْتَمِعِينَ فَيَتَخَيَّلُ لَهُمْ أَجْسَامًا تُنَاسِبُ ذَٰلِكَ، أَعْظَمَ مِنْ هَٰذِهِ بِكَثِيرٍ فِي طُولِهَا وَقَدْرِهَا لِتُنَاسِبَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ ٱلْقَدْرِ ٱلَّتِي صَدَرَتْ تِلْكَ ٱلْمَبَانِي عَنْهَا، وَيَغْفُلُ عَنْ شَأْنِ ٱلْهِنْدَام وَٱلْمُخَالِ وَمَا ٱقْتَضَتْهُ فِي ذَٰلِكَ ٱلصِّنَاعَةُ ٱلْهَنْدَسِيَّةُ.

     warubbamā yatawahhamu kaṯīrun mina n-nāsi ʔiḏā naẓara ʔilā ʔāṯāri l-ʔaqdamīna wamaṣāniʕihimu l-ʕaẓīmati miṯla ʔīwāni kisrā waʔahrāmi miṣra waḥanāyā l-muʕallaqati wašaršāla bi-l-maḡribi ʔinnamā kānat biqadrihim mutafarriqīna ʔaw mujtamiʕīna fayataḵayyalu lahum ʔajsāman tunāsibu ḏālika, ʔaʕẓama min hāḏihi bikaṯīrin fī ṭūlihā waqadrihā litunāsiba baynahā wabayna l-qadri llatī ṣadarat tilka l-mabānī ʕanhā, wayaḡfulu ʕan šaʔni l-hindām wal-muḵāli wamā qtaḍathu fī ḏālika ṣ-ṣināʕatu l-handasiyyatu.

     Perhaps, if many think about the remnants of the ancients and their great buildings like the arcade-yard of Khusrow and the pyramids of Egypt and the connected cambers and Cherchell in the Maghreb, they were in their size piecemeal or collective work and one has to imagine their bodies to match that, much so in their length and scale to find an analogy between them and between the scale from which these buildings have risen; one fails to pay heed to the employment of machines duplicating power and the block and tackle and that which one availed oneself of in such engineering work.

Declension

Declension of noun حَنِيَّة (ḥaniyya)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَنِيَّة ḥaniyya	الْحَنِيَّة al-ḥaniyya	حَنِيَّة ḥaniyyat
Nominative	حَنِيَّةٌ ḥaniyyatun	الْحَنِيَّةُ al-ḥaniyyatu	حَنِيَّةُ ḥaniyyatu
Accusative	حَنِيَّةً ḥaniyyatan	الْحَنِيَّةَ al-ḥaniyyata	حَنِيَّةَ ḥaniyyata
Genitive	حَنِيَّةٍ ḥaniyyatin	الْحَنِيَّةِ al-ḥaniyyati	حَنِيَّةِ ḥaniyyati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَنِيَّتَيْن ḥaniyyatayn	الْحَنِيَّتَيْن al-ḥaniyyatayn	حَنِيَّتَيْ ḥaniyyatay
Nominative	حَنِيَّتَانِ ḥaniyyatāni	الْحَنِيَّتَانِ al-ḥaniyyatāni	حَنِيَّتَا ḥaniyyatā
Accusative	حَنِيَّتَيْنِ ḥaniyyatayni	الْحَنِيَّتَيْنِ al-ḥaniyyatayni	حَنِيَّتَيْ ḥaniyyatay
Genitive	حَنِيَّتَيْنِ ḥaniyyatayni	الْحَنِيَّتَيْنِ al-ḥaniyyatayni	حَنِيَّتَيْ ḥaniyyatay
Plural	broken plural invariable
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā	الْحَنَايَا al-ḥanāyā	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā
Nominative	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā	الْحَنَايَا al-ḥanāyā	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā
Accusative	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā	الْحَنَايَا al-ḥanāyā	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā
Genitive	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā	الْحَنَايَا al-ḥanāyā	حَنَايَا ḥanāyā

Descendants

• Maltese: ħnejja
• Moroccan Arabic: حنية (ḥniyya)
  • → Tarifit: taḥnact, taḥniyt