نية

Arabic

Root
ن و ي‎ (n-w-y)

Etymology

From the root ن و ي‎ (n-w-y).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nij.ja/

Noun

نِيَّة • (niyya) f (plural نِيَّات‎ (niyyāt) or نَوايَا‎ (nawāyā))

verbal noun of نَوَى‎ (nawā, “to think, to intend”) (form I)
intention, purpose, resolution
‏إنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ، وَإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى‎ ― But deeds are in intentions, and every man will have what he intends.
will, tendency, inclination, wish, object of investigation
(obsolete) distance

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

→ Bashkir: ниәт (niət)
→ Malay: niat
- Indonesian: niat
→ Persian: نیت‎ (niyyat)
→ Ottoman Turkish: نیت‎ (niyyet)
- Turkish: niyet
- → Crimean Tatar: niyet
→ Swahili: nia
→ Uyghur: نىيەت‎ (niyet)
→ Uzbek: niyat

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “نية”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 1157

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