نهت1 نَهَتَ, aor. ـِ [cont? to analogy,] inf. n. نَهِيتٌ (S, K) and نُهَاتٌ (K) He cried out, or uttered a cry: (TA:) [see إِنْهَتِى عَلَيْهَا voce  بَهَتَ:] he uttered the kind of sound termed زَئِير; [i. e., he (a lion, TA) uttered a sound from his chest; or roared:] (K:) or he uttered a sound lower than that which is termed زئير: (S:) or he breathed hard; or emitted the voice, or the breath, with a moaning; i. q. زَحَرَ, (K,) and طَحَرَ: (TA:) or he uttered a sound from his chest on an occasion of distress. (TA.) النَّهَّاتُ and ↓ المِنْهَتُ and ↓ المُنْهِتُ (thus the last is written accord. to the K, but it occurs in a verse written ↓ المُنَهِّتُ, TA, and in this latter manner it is written in the L,) The lion. (K.) b2:  أَسَدٌ نَهَّاتٌ, (S, L,) and ↓ مُنَهِّتٌ, (L,) [A lion uttering frequently a low growl]. (S, L.) b3: حِمَارٌ نَهَّاتٌ (tropical:)  An ass that brays much, or frequently. (S, K.) b4:  رَجُلٌ نَهَّاتٌ (tropical:)  A man that breathes hard; or emits the voice, or the breath, with a moaning. (S, K, *) See مُطَلِّحٌ.النَّاهِتُ The throat; the guttur: (K:) so called because the sound termed نَهِيت proceeds  from it. (TA.) المِنْهَتُ, and المُنْهِتُ, and المُنَهِّتُ: see النَهَّاتُ.