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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