جِنَايَةٌ

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جِنَايَةٌ , primarily, The act of gathering, plucking, or taking from a tree, fruit: [see 1:]
2 then, The bringing to pass an evil thing, or action:
3 then, Evil, [itself]:
4 then, The doing a forbidden action: specially used in this last sense; though it has a general application:
5 [as a simple subst., it generally signifies] A crime, an offence, or an injurious action, for which one should be punished: or an action that a man commits requiring punishment or retaliation to be inflicted upon him in the present world and in the world to come: or any forbidden injurious action: and in the language of the lawyers, especially a wounding: and an amputation, or a maiming: and جَنِيَّةٌ signifies the same as جِنَايَةٌ: the pl. of جناية is جِنَايَاتٌ and جَنَايَا; but the latter of these pls. is of rare occurrence.

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