نَاحِيَةٌ
1.
i. q.
جَانِبٌ q. v., A side; a lateral, or an outward, or adjacent, part or portion. (K, &c.)
2.
An apartment of a house. (Mgh, voce حَيِّزٌ.) And the plural, نَوَاحٍ, The outer parts or regions of an animal. The singular may often be rendered A part, or portion, of a place.
3.
نَاحِيَةٌ is of the measure فَاعِلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ, [meaning مَنْحُوَّةٌ, a part, or the like, or a point, towards which one goes, or directs himself; a point of direction;] because one goes, or directs himself, towards it: (Msb:) best rendered as above; adding, or part, region, district, quarter, or tract, considered with respect to its collocation or juxtaposition or direction, or considered as belonging to a whole: a vicinage, or neighbourhood: and a part of a country, a region, district, quarter, or tract, absolutely; a district; a province: often best rendered a side; or a region, district, quarter, or tract: or a part of a place, an apartment: see حَيِّزٌ, in article حوز.
4.
Also A limit, bound, or boundary: see two tropical exs. of its plural (نَوَاحٍ) voce حِنْوٌ, and another in a verse voce رَسُولٌ: or a remote side; synonym جَانِبٌ مُتَنَحٍّ: (Kz, in TA:) a tract of land. (KL.) See أُفُقٌ and جَانِبٌ.
5.
عَلَى نَاحِيَةٍ
Beside, aside, or apart; like على جَانِبٍ and عَلى طَرَفٍ; and so نَاحِيَةً and فِى نَاحِيَةٍ, &c.: you say جَلَسَ فِى نَاحِيَةٍ مِنْهُمْ
He sat aside, or apart, from them: and أَنَا فِى
نَوَاحٍ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ, explained voce شَفَقٌ. And فِى
نَاحِيَةِ كَذَا
In the direction of such a thing: see أَشْرَى.
6.
هُوَ عَلَى نَاحِيَتِهِ
He is keeping to his own side, following his own course: see جَدِيَّةٌ.