جنى

Arabic

Root
ج ن ي (j-n-y)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒa.naː/

Verb

جَنَى • (janā) I, non-past يَجْنِي‎ (yajnī)

  1. to harvest, to reap, to gather; to collect, to gain, to obtain

Conjugation

Verb

جَنَى • (janā) I, non-past يَجْنِي‎ (yajnī)

  1. to commit a crime, an outrage, to offend [+ عَلَى (object) = against]

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • جَنَتْ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا بَرَاقِشُ (janat ʕalā ʔahlihā barāqišu, shoot oneself in the foot, dig one's own grave, literally Barāqiš was guilty of bringing harm upon her family); a tale of a dog who first helps her family to safety, alarming them of raiders approaching, then accordingly brings about their demise, giving away their hidden location by barking once more.

References

  • جنى” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “جنى”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 316
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جنى”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 340
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “جنى”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 472
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جنى”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 208
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