نهج

1 نَهَجَ  , (K, Msb,) aor. نَهَجَ , inf. n. نُهُوجٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انهج ; (S, K;) It (a road, or way, S and Msb, and an affair, TA,) became manifest, plainly apparent, or open; (S, K, Msb,) and so, with respect to a road, ↓ استنهج . (K.) ― -b2- نَهَجَ, (S, K, Msb,) and ↓ انهج , (K, Msb,) He, or it, rendered (a road, S and Msb, and an affair, TA,) manifest, plainly apparent, or open: (S, K, Msb:) ― -b3- إِِعْمَلْ عَلَى مَا نَهَجْتُهُ لَكَ Do according to that which I have made manifest to thee. (S.) -A2- نَهَجَ, aor. نَهَجَ , (inf. n. نَهْجٌ; TA,) and ↓ انهج , It (attrition, TA) wore out, or rendered worn out, a garment. (K.) ― -b2- نَهِجَ, aor. نَهَجَ ; (A 'Obeyd, S, K;) and نَهَجَ, (K,) but this is disallowed by A 'Obeyd, (S,) and نَهُجَ, and ↓ انهج ; (K;) It (a garment) became old and worn out: (K:) or ↓ انهج signifies it began to become warn out: (S:) and it became old and worn out, but without being rent in several parts. (TA.) انهج فِيهِ البِلَى [The effect of] attrition spread through it. (IAar.) -A3- نَهَجَ الطَّرِيقَ He went along the road. (S, K.) -A4- نَهِجَ, aor. نَهَجَ , inf. n. نَهَجُ; (S, K;) and نُهِجَ, inf. n. نَهْجَةٌ; (ISh;) this inf. n. also mentioned by Lth, who knew no verb belonging to it; (L;) and نَهَجَ, aor. نَهِجَ , (K,) inf. n. نَهِيجٌ; (L, in art. أنح;) and ↓ انهج , inf. n. إِِنْهَاجٌ; (L;) He was out of breath; breathed short, or unintermittedly; panted: (S, L, K;) by reason of violent motion: said of a man, and of a beast of carriage, (L,) and of a dog. (T.) One says, فُلَانٌ يَنْهَجُ فِى النَّفَسِ ↓ فَمَا أَدْرَِى مَا أَنْهَجَهُ Such a one is out of breath. or breathes short, or unintermittedly, or pants for breath, and I know not what hath caused him to be so, or to do so. And it is said in a trad., رَأَى رَجُلًا يَنْهَجُ He saw a man breathing short, or unintermittedly, or panting for breath, by reason of fatness, and putting forth his tongue, from fatigue or the like. (S.) 4 ضَرَبَهُ حَتَّى انهج  He beat him until he became stretched along: or, until he wept: (TA:) [but probably بكى “ he wept ” is a mistake for بَلِىَ he became worn with the beating]. -A2- انهج He, or it, caused him (a man, S, and a beast of carriage, TA) to be out of breath, or to breath short, or unintermittedly, or to pant for breath. (S, TA.) [See an ex voce نَهِجَ.] He rode a beast of carriage so as to cause it, or until he caused it, to be out of breath, &c., (S, K,) and to become fatigued, or jaded. (TA.) -A3- See 1, throughout. 10 إِِسْتَنْهَجَ see 1. ― -b2- فُلَانٌ يَسْتَنْهِجُ سَبِيلَ فُلَانٍ, (S.) or طَرِيقَ فُلَانٍ, (K.) Such a one follows the way of such a one. (S, K.) نَهْجٌ  (S, K,) and ↓ نَهجٌ (L) and ↓ مَنْهَجٌ and ↓ مِنْهَاجٌ (S, K) A manifest, plainly apparent, or open, road, or way: (S, L, K:) and so طَرِيقٌ ↓ نَاهِجَةٌ : (TA, from a trad.:) pl. of the ?? نَهْجَاتٌ and نُهُجٌ and نُهُوجٌ: (L:) [and of the third مَنَاهِج]. ― -b2- طُرُقٌ نَهْجَهٌ Manifest roads, or ways. (L.) ― -b3- And نَهْجُ الطَّرِيقِ [The plain, or open, track of the road]. (M, K, in art. سن.) نَهَجٌ  : see نَهْجٌ. طَرِيقٌ نَاهِجَةٌ  : see نَهْجٌ. مَنْهَجٌ  and مِنْهَاجٌ: see نَهْجٌ. Credit: Lane Lexicon