أَنِقَ

, aorist اَنَقَ , verbal noun أَنَقٌ, It excited admiration and approval by its beauty or goodliness; it pleased, or rejoiced. (Msb.)

Also, aorist and verbal noun as above, He rejoiced; was joyful, happy, or pleased. (S, K.) You say, أَنِقْتُ بِهِ, (Lth, JK, Msb, K,) aorist and verbal noun as above, (Lth, JK,) I was pleased with it, or by it; or was rejoiced by it. (Lth, JK, Msb, K. [In the CK اَعْجَبَ is erroneously put for أُعْجِبَ] It is said in a tradition, مَا مِنْ عَاشِيَةٍ أَشَدُّ أَنَقًا وَلَا أَبْعَدُ شِبَعًا مِنْ طَالِبِ عِلْمٍ There is not any eater by night [i. e. any man] who hath more pleasure and approval and desire and love [in his pursuit, nor any who is further from satiation therein, than the student, or pursuer, of science]; meaning that the man of learning is excessively greedy and insatiable, persevering in vehement desire. (L.)

And أَنَقَ الشَّىْءَ, (AZ, K,) verbal noun as above, (AZ,) He loved the thing. (AZ, K.)