غَنِىَ

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غَنِىَI , from المَال, Present.T يَغْنَى, Verbal.Noun غِنًى and غَنَآءٌ, He was, or became, free from want; in the state, or condition, of having no wants; and also, of having few wants; or in a state of competence, or sufficiency; or rich, or wealthy; الغِنَى being the contr. of الفَقْرُ, as also الغَنَآءُ; and thus denoting the absence, or non-existence, of wants, which is [properly, or strictly speaking,] attributable to none but God; and also the paucity of wants; or syn. with اليَسَارُ: and the epithet applied to him of whom this is said is غَنِىٌّ , or غَانٍ , [or both, for] both signify the same [as will be shown below]. One says غَنِىَ and and تغنّى and تغانى and , (K, TA, [but wanting in the CK, and app. in several copies of the K, though it is said in one place in the K, as it is in the S, that تغنّى is syn. with استغنى,]) all having one and the same meaning, and followed by بِهِ [as therewith signifying He was, or became, free from want; in the state, or condition, of having no want, or need; or in a state of competence, &c.; by means of it, or him; i. e. he was, or became, sufficed by it, or him; and hence, he was, or became, content, or satisfied, with it, or him]. لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ لَمْ بِالقُرْآنِ, a saying of the Prophet, mentioned in a trad., means من لم [i. e. He is not of us who is not content, or satisfied, with the Kur-án]: so says Sufyán Ibn-'Oyeyneh; not regarding it as meaning the utterance of the voice [in chanting]: and A 'Obeyd says that this obtains extensively in the speech of the Arabs; that they say and in the sense of . And one says, غَنِىَ عَنْهُ, Verbal.Noun غِنًى and غُنْيَانٌ, meaning He was in no need of it [or him]: as also عنه; and غنه [which seems to be rarely used in this sense]: and غُنْيَةٌ signifies the state of being in no need: and , a man free from need. [And مَا عَنْهُ He is not without need, or not free from want, of it, or him.] And غَنِىَ بِهِ عَنْهُ, i. e. عَنْ غَيْرِهِ, Verbal.Noun غُنْيَةٌ, or غُنْيَةٌ is the subst., meaning [He was sufficed by it, or was satisfied, or content, with it, so as to be in no need, or so as to be free from want, of it, i. e. of another thing]: and the epithet is غَنِىٌّ . And [in like manner] غَنِيَتِ المَرْأَةُ بِزَوْجِهَا عَنْ غَيْرِهِ, Verbal.Noun غُنْيَانٌ and غَنَآءٌ also, meaning [The woman was satisfied, or content, with her husband, so as to have no want of other than him]. And غَنِيَتْ [alone], Verbal.Noun غِنًا [for غِنًى, or perhaps a mistranscription for غَنَآءٌ, as in the next preceding sentence], She was, or became, such as is termed غَانِيَةٌ [q. v. voce غَانٍ].
2 غَنِىَ, Verbal.Noun غِنًى, also signifies He married, or took a wife; [as also تغنّى ; (see Ham p. 226 l. 1, where تَغَنَّتْ occurs said of a woman as meaning she married;)] syn. تَزَوَّجَ. (K, * TK. [In the K, only the Verbal.Noun of the former verb in this sense is mentioned; الغِنَى being there expl. in some copies as signifying التَّزَوُّجُ; and in others, التَّزْوِيجُ.]) Hence the saying, الغِنَى حِصْنٌ لِلْعَزَبِ [Marriage is a bulwark to him who has no wife; protecting him from the attacks of seductive women by rendering him free from the want of them]: mentioned by Az.
3 Also, غَنِىَ, Verbal.Noun غِنًى, He dwelt, or abode, بِالمَكَانِ in the place: or غَنِىَ القَوْمُ فِى دَارِهِمْ The people, or party, dwelt long in their place of abode: or غَنِىَ فِى مَكَانِ كَذَا He dwelt long in such a place, satisfied, or content, therewith, so as to be in no need of any other. كَأَنْ لَمْ يَغْنَوْا فِيهَا, in the Kur [vii. 90 and xi. 71 and 98], means As though they had not dwelt therein. [See also the last sentence but two in this paragraph.]
4 And He lived; syn. عَاشَ.
5 And I. q. بَقِىَ: one says, غَنِيتُ لَكَ مِنِّى بِالمَوَدَّةِ, meaning بَقِيتُ [i. e. I remained, or have remained, constant to thee with my love, or affection]. (ISd, K, TA: in the CK [erroneously] غَنَيْتُ.)
6 [And I. q. كَانَ.] قَدْ أَغْنَى الحَبِيبَ المُصَافِىَ, in a verse of Ibn-Mukbil, means أَكُونُ الحَبِيبَ [i. e. Certainly I will be, or shall be, the sincere friend]. And غَنِيَتْ دَارُنَا تِهَامَةَ, in a verse of another poet, means كَانَتْ [i. e. Our place of abode was Tihámeh]. And one says of a thing when it has perished, passed away, or come to nought, كَأَنْ لَمْ يَغْنَ بِالأَمْسِ, meaning كَأَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ [i. e. As though it had not been in existence yesterday].

def.2 غَنِىَ also signifies لَقِىَ: [SM doubts this; saying,] thus in the copies; but perhaps it should be بَقِىَ, a signification of غَنِىَ accord. to ISd and the K [and mentioned above]: [it appears, however, to be correct; for it is said that] مَا غَنِيتُ فُلَانًا means لَمْ أَلْقَهُ [i. e. I did not meet, or meet with, or find, or I have not met, &c., such a one]. [Accord. to the TK, غَنِىَ followed by بِهِ signifies لَقِى: but this is perhaps said conjecturally.]

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