سنّاهُ

1.
, (M, TA,) verbal noun تَسْنِيَةٌ, (TA,) He ascended, rose, mounted, got, was, or became, upon it, namely, a thing; (M, TA;) as also تسنّاهُ. (M.) And البَعِيرُ النَّاقَةَ تسنّى The he-camel mounted the she-camel to compress her. (K.)
2.
And سنّاهُ, (S, K,) verbal noun as above, (K,) He opened it; (S, K, TA;) namely, a knot, and a lock: (TA:) and made it easy. (S, K, TA. [In the last of these, said to be tropical.]) A poet says,
وَأَعْلَمُ عِلْمًا لَيْسَ بِالظَّنِّ أَنَّهُ
إِذَا اللّٰهُ سَنَّى عَقْدَ شَىْءٍ تَيَسَّرَا
[And I know with a knowledge that is not mere opinion, that, when God opens, and makes easy, the tying, or knotting, of a thing, it becomes easy]. (S.) And one says, سَنَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ, and الأَمْرَ, (assumed tropical:) I opened the way of doing the thing, and the affair. (TA.) And البَابَ سَنَيْتُ, (K,) verbal noun سنى [apparently سَنْىٌ], (TA,) I opened the door; as also سَنَوْتُهُ; (K, TA;) the verb in this sense having ى and و for its last radical. (TA.)
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See also 5.

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