Quranic root
جني
j · n · y
The root centers on taking or gathering fruit from a tree.
From the concrete act and product of gathering, the root develops usages for freshly gathered or mature fruit, abundance of gathered produce, and figuratively the bringing about of injury or a punishable offense.
- Maqāyīs · row 1237
- Mufradāt · row 271
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
جَنًى
janan
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Fruit gathered from a tree, or fruit ready to be gathered.
In the Quranic occurrence, it denotes the fruit of the two gardens, understood as fruit available for gathering.
- Lane · entry 47561
- Mufradāt · row 271
Selected Quran examples
Quran 55:54word 7
“and (the) fruit”
جَنِيّ
janiyy
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Freshly gathered, tender, and ripe, said of fruit.
The Quranic occurrence describes dates; the adjective expresses their freshness and ripeness rather than being restricted to dates alone.
- Lane · entry 47561
- Lane · entry 47563
- Mufradāt · row 271
Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:25word 8
“ripe”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 19 Classical meanings
جَنَى
To gather, pluck, or take fruit from a tree; also to collect analogous produce, such as truffles or gold from a mine.
Form I verb; the object may be fruit or something treated as gathered produce.
- Lane · entry 47556
جَنَى
To acquire eminence or nobility.
A metaphorical use of the Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 47556
جَنَى عَلَيْهِ
To commit or bring an injury, crime, or other evil against someone or a group; to bring an evil upon another.
Figurative Form I usage, commonly constructed with عَلَى.
- Lane · entry 47556
جَانَى عَلَيْهِ
To accuse someone of a crime or offense.
Form III construction with عَلَى.
- Lane · entry 47557
أَجْنَى
Of a tree or fruit, to reach maturity, produce ripe fruit, or become ready for gathering; of fruit, to become ripe.
Form IV usage; the subject may be a tree or its fruit.
- Lane · entry 47558
أَجْنَى
Of grass, herbage, or land, to become abundant in herbage, truffles, and similar produce.
Form IV usage describing abundant growth or available produce.
- Lane · entry 47558
تَجَنَّى عَلَيْهِ
To falsely accuse someone of a crime, offense, or injurious act that the person did not commit.
Form V construction with عَلَى; the defining feature is the falsity of the accusation.
- Lane · entry 47559
اِجْتَنَى
To come to rainwater and drink it.
A reported and tentatively interpreted Form VIII usage attested in the cited phrase.
- Lane · entry 47560
جَنًى
Anything gathered or plucked, and by extension a collected substance or gathered produce such as truffles, herbage, cotton, gold, cowries, or honey.
A broader Classical noun use; the Quranic fruit sense is presented separately.
- Lane · entry 47561
جِنَايَةٌ
The act of gathering, plucking, or taking fruit from a tree.
The primary concrete noun sense, distinct from its figurative and legal uses.
- Lane · entry 47564
جِنَايَةٌ
The bringing about of evil or injury; also evil or harm itself.
A figurative noun use extending from the act of gathering to the production of an injurious result.
- Lane · entry 47564
جِنَايَةٌ
A crime, offense, or forbidden injurious act for which punishment or retaliation may be due; in legal usage, especially a wounding, amputation, or maiming.
A conventional legal and general usage for a punishable offense or injury.
- Lane · entry 47564
جَنِيَّةٌ
A round outer garment or cloak made of khazz cloth.
A separate nominal lexical use.
- Lane · entry 47565
جَانٍ
A gatherer or plucker of fruit and other produce.
Active participle used as a noun.
- Lane · entry 47566
جَانٍ
A person who commits a crime or offense.
Figurative or legal active-participial use.
- Lane · entry 47566
الجَانِي
A wolf.
An idiomatic lexical use of the definite form.
- Lane · entry 47566
جَانٍ
A fecundator of palm trees.
A specialized agricultural noun use.
- Lane · entry 47566
الجَوَانِى
The sides; a plural equivalent of الجَوَانِب.
A separate plural noun usage.
- Lane · entry 47567
مُجْتَنًى
A place where fruit and similar produce is gathered or plucked.
A place noun derived from the Form VIII gathering verb.
- Lane · entry 47569
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form VIII rainwater meaning is explicitly reported with a tentative interpretation in the lexical evidence.