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إِِنْسِىُّ أنس أنسى أنسي إِنس إِنسي انسى انسي نسي Of, or belonging to, mankind; human; [as also ↓ أَنَسِىٌّ , and ↓ إِِنْسَانِىُّ ;] a rel. n. from إِِنْسٌ. (M.) ― -b2- A human being; a man; as also ↓ أَنَسِىٌّ , (S, K,) and ↓ إِِنْسَانٌ . (S, A, Msb, K.) See إِِنْسٌ, in two places. ― -b3- [Domestic, as opposed to wild. Ex.] حُمُرٌ إِِنْسِيَّةٌ Domestic asses; asses that are accustomed to the houses: commonly known as written with kesr to the أُنْسِيَّةٌ: but in the book of Aboo-Moosà is an indication of its being with damm to the ' [أَنَسِيَّةٌ]: and as some relate a trad. in which it occurs, أَنَسِيَّةٌ, which is said to be of no account. (TA.) ― -b4- The left side (AZ, S, M, Msb, K) of an animal, (Msb,) or of a beast and of a man, (M,) or of anything: (AZ, S, K:) or the right side: (As, S:) [but the latter seems to be a mistake:] Az says that Lth has well explained this term and its contrary وَحْشِىٌّ, saying that the latter is the right side of every beast; and the former, the left side; agreeably with those of the first authority in sound learning; and [that] it is related of El-Mufaddal and As and AO, that all of them asserted the latter to be, of every animal except man, [the “far” side, or “off” side,] the side on which it is not milked nor mounted; and the former, [the near side,] the side on which the rider mounts and the milker milks: (TA in art.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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