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ج-ن-ي

The Arabic root ج-ن-ي (j-n-y)

Form I verb جَنَى: to commit a crime

9 words in the dictionary are built from ج-ن-ي, including verbs in Forms I, V, VIII. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Adjective
criminal
Verb · Form I
to commit a crime
Noun
جَانٍ
gatherer
Verb · Form I
جَنَى
to harvest
Adjective
جَانٍ
guilty
Noun
جِنَايَة
a felony

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

جَنَى · present يَجْنِي
Form I · The plain action

to commit a crime, an outrage, to offend

جِنَايَة
Verbal noun
a felony
جَانٍ
Active participle
gatherer
جَانٍ
Active participle
guilty
مَجْنِيّ
Passive participle
جَنَى · present يَجْنِي
Form I · The plain action

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

جَنْي
Verbal noun
جَنًى
Verbal noun
جَانٍ
Active participle
مَجْنِيّ
Passive participle
تَجَنَّى · present يَتَجَنَّى
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to incriminate, to charge with, to attack; to misrepresent, to diverge from

تَجَنٍّ
Verbal noun
calumny
مُتَجَنٍّ
Active participle
مُتَجَنًّى
Passive participle
اِجْتَنَى · present يَجْتَنِي
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to harvest, to reap, to gather

اِجْتِنَاء
Verbal noun
مُجْتَنٍ
Active participle
مُجْتَنًى
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

Adjective
criminal

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