جنن

⁧جَنَنَّ⁩ • (jananna) (form I)

1. third-person feminine plural past active of ⁧جَنَّ⁩ (janna)

⁧جُنِنَّ⁩ • (juninna) (form I)

1. third-person feminine plural past passive of ⁧جَنَّ⁩ (janna)
2. third-person feminine plural past passive of ⁧جُنَّ⁩ (junna)

From Arabic ⁧جَنَّنَ⁩ (jannana).

• IPA^(key): /ʒan.nan/, [ˈʒan.nan], [ˈd͡ʒan.nan]

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⁧جنن⁩ • (jannan) I (present ⁧بجنّن⁩ (bijannen))

1. to make someone crazy
2. (by extension, intransitive) to be lovely, amazing, wonderful, etc.

   ⁧اغنيتها الجديدة بتجنّن.⁩

   oḡnyetha l-jdīde bitjannen.

   Her new song is amazing.

3. (by extension, transitive) to please greatly

   Synonym: ⁧عجب⁩ (ʕajab)

   ⁧جنّنني لمّا صارو يغنّو الولاد.⁩

   jannanni lamma ṣāru yḡannu l-ūlād.

   I loved when the kids started singing.

   (literally, “It was pleasing to me when the kids started singing.”)

• Pragmatically, in the second sense this verb means "to like", with the agent grammatically expressed as the object of pleasure; this construction is analogous to the Spanish verb "gustar".