جنن

جَنَّ

To conceal or bury something; of a woman, to enclose a child or fetus in the womb.

Includes concealing a dead body, wrapping it in grave-clothing, burying it, or concealing something in one's bosom.

• Lane · entry 47418

جَنَّ

Of an embryo or fetus, to be hidden in the womb.

An intransitive use describing the fetus's concealed state.

• Lane · entry 47418

جَنَّ

Of the night, to become dark.

A classical intransitive use of the night becoming dark or obscure.

• Lane · entry 47418

جُنَّ

To become mad, insane, or bereft of reason.

The verb is associated with possession or with reason being covered; it is distinct as a verbal headword from the participle مَجْنُون.

• Lane · entry 47418

جُنَّ

Of flies, to make a loud or gladsome buzzing.

An explicitly marked figurative use, especially of flies buzzing in a meadow.

• Lane · entry 47418

جُنَّ

Of vegetation or land, to become dense, tall, luxuriant, and blossom or produce abundant herbage.

A figurative development describing tangled or flourishing growth.

• Lane · entry 47418

أَجْنَنَ

To cause someone to become mad or insane.

A causative use corresponding to جُنَّ and مَجْنُون.

• Lane · entry 47420

أَجْنَنَ

To fall into or enter a place containing or abounding in jinn.

A rare lexical use referring to a place inhabited by jinn.

• Lane · entry 47420

تَجَنَّنَ

To feign madness or possession toward someone.

The subject pretends to be mad without actually being so.

• Lane · entry 47421

اِجْتَنَّ

To become concealed, hidden, covered, or protected, or to conceal oneself.

Often construed with عَنْهُ or with بِجُنَّةٍ, ‘by means of a covering’.

• Lane · entry 47423

اِسْتَجْنَنَ

To excite someone to mirth, joy, gladness, or sport.

A lexical use of اِسْتِجْنَانٌ as a synonym of اِسْتِطْرَابٌ.

• Lane · entry 47424

جِنّ

The intense, confused, or dense darkness of night; also night itself.

The noun is used here in a darkness sense, not for the unseen beings.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

Concealment or absence of concealment.

Occurs in expressions meaning that there is no concealment in a matter.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

The main body, bulk, or collective assemblage of people.

The meaning is explained by the notion that a person entering the group becomes concealed among them.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

A thing that veils, conceals, covers, or protects another.

A general concrete extension of the concealment sense.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

The flowers or blossoms of plants or herbage.

An explicitly marked figurative use.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

The prime, first freshness, or vigorous beginning of youth or of a state.

A figurative temporal use referring to the fresh or vigorous phase of something.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

Excessive exultation or an excited, unruly state.

Applied to the madness of exultation and, in a traditional expression, to a she-camel's bad temper after giving birth.

• Lane · entry 47425

جِنّ

Seriousness or earnestness.

A figurative sense explained as an inward quality concealed in the heart and associated with thought or reflection.

• Lane · entry 47425

جُنَّة

A woman's face and head covering with openings for the eyes.

A specialized garment sense distinct from the general protective-cover meaning.

• Lane · entry 47427

جَنَن

A grave.

The grave is so called because it conceals the dead.

• Lane · entry 47429

جَنَن

Grave-clothing used to cover a dead body.

A covering associated with burial.

• Lane · entry 47429

جَنَن

A garment that conceals the body.

A concrete covering sense distinct from the grave and the buried body.

• Lane · entry 47429

جَنَن

A dead body or corpse concealed in a grave.

A derived lexical use describing the concealed deceased body.

• Lane · entry 47429

جَنَان

A garment that conceals or covers a person.

A garment sense of جَنَان, distinct in headword from جَنَن.

• Lane · entry 47431

جَنَان

The surrounding adjuncts, enclosure, or protected precinct of a house.

The meaning is connected with the way these precincts conceal or surround the house.

• Lane · entry 47431

جَنَان

The hidden interior of a thing.

Refers to what is concealed from the eye within an object.

• Lane · entry 47431

جَنَان

The heart; by extension, the inner soul, mind, or spirit.

The heart is named for being concealed in the bosom and for holding memory or inward understanding.

• Lane · entry 47431

جَنَان

A secret and bad action.

The source reports the descriptive wording as partly illegible, but explicitly preserves this lexical use.

• Lane · entry 47431

جُنُون

Madness, insanity, loss or deficiency of reason.

A verbal noun and simple substantive for the state of being mad or possessed.

• Lane · entry 47433

جُنُون

Persistence in evil or pursuit of a headlong, rash course.

A figurative ethical use.

• Lane · entry 47433

جَنِين

Anything veiled, concealed, or hidden, including concealed rancor or malice.

An adjectival or substantive extension beyond the specific fetal sense.

• Lane · entry 47434

جَنِين

Buried or deposited in a grave.

A passive-like use describing what has been concealed by burial.

• Lane · entry 47434

جَنِين

Waters choked or obstructed with earth.

Reported as a plural usage derived from the concealed or covered sense.

• Lane · entry 47434

جَنِين

The vulva.

A rare anatomical sense.

• Lane · entry 47434

جَنِينَة

A rounded woman's garment of the miṭraf type, resembling a ṭaylasān.

A specialized garment term.

• Lane · entry 47436

جِنِّيّ

Of or relating to the jinn.

The feminine form is جِنِّيَّة.

• Lane · entry 47438

جِنِّيّ

The tallness or height of a camel's hump.

A rare specialized sense unrelated to the adjectival use ‘of the jinn’.

• Lane · entry 47438

جِنْجِن

A breastbone or the head or extremity of a rib near the sternum.

A singular term for the chest bones collectively called جَنَاجِن.

• Lane · entry 47440

أَجِنَّكَ

Because you are or because that you are.

A contracted conjunctional expression derived from مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّكَ.

• Lane · entry 47444

تَجْنِين

Strange, uncouth, or difficult-to-understand speech; traditionally, something said by the jinn.

A substantive use of the verbal noun.

• Lane · entry 47445

مِجَنّ

A shield used to conceal or protect its bearer.

An instrument noun; the plural is مَجَانّ.

• Lane · entry 47447

مِجَنّ

To abandon shame and do as one pleases; to become master of one's affair.

An idiom built from turning or reversing one's shield.

• Lane · entry 47447

مِجَنّ

To become hostile after reconciliation.

An idiom meaning literally to turn the outer side of the shield toward someone.

• Lane · entry 47447

مِجَنّ

A woman's sash or ornamental band.

A specialized garment or ornament sense.

• Lane · entry 47447

مَجَنَّة

A place in which one is concealed, covered, or protected.

It may also denote a place where a person conceals or protects himself.

• Lane · entry 47448

مَجَنَّة

A land containing or abounding in jinn.

A place-name-like environmental use based on the presence of jinn.

• Lane · entry 47448

مَجْنُون

Of a palm, plant, or land, tall, luxuriant, tangled, dense, or abundantly grown.

An explicitly marked figurative use of the participle, separate from the human sense ‘mad’.

• Lane · entry 47450

مُتَجَنِّنَة

Of land, covered with abundant herbage extending in every direction.

A rare figurative participial description of luxuriant land.

• Lane · entry 47451