جَنَى

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جَنَىI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun جَنًى, or جَنْىٌ, (so accord. to one copy of the S, and written in the accus. case جنيا in the Ham p. 355,) and جِنَايَةٌ, He gathered, plucked, or took from the tree, the fruit; i. q. and : and in like manner one says of a thing similar to fruit. One says also, جَنَاهَا لَهُ and جَنَاهُ إِيَّاهَا [He gathered it, plucked it, or took it from the tree, for him]. And جَنَيْتُكَ أَكْمُؤًا [I gathered for thee truffles]. And جَنَى ذَهَبًا He collected gold from its mine.
2 Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses this verb metaphorically, in the phrase جَنَى العُلَى, meaning [He acquired] eminence, or nobility.
3 You also say, جَنَى عَلَيْهِ, or عَلَى قَوْمِهِ, Verbal.Noun جِنَايَةٌ, He committed, [against him, or] against his people, or party, a crime, or an offence for which he should be punished; as also [or جانى قَوْمِهِ]: (TK in art. جر:) [and he brought an injury upon him, or them:] and جَنَى الذَّنْبِ عَلَيْهِ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun جِنَايَةٌ, with kesr, He committed the crime, offence, or injurious action, against him; syn. جَرَّهُ إِلَيْهِ: (K: [see art. جر:]) thus used, also, the verb is metaphorical, from جَنَى الثَّمَرَةَ: and so in the phrase, جَنَى شَرًّا, meaning He brought to pass an evil thing or action. [See also جِنَايَةٌ, below.] It is said in a trad., لَا يَجْنِى جَانٍ إِلَّا عَلَى نَفْسِهِ [An injurer shall not bring injury save on himself]; meaning that one shall not be prosecuted for an injurious action committed by another, of his relations or of others. And a poet says, جَانِيكَ مَنْ يَجْنِى عَلَيْكَ وَقَدْ تُعْدِي الصِّجَاحَ فَتَجْرَبُ الجُرْبُ [which may be rendered, Thine injurer whom thou shouldst punish is he who brings an injury upon thee: but sometimes the mangy camels infect the sound ones so that these become mangy; and thus a criminal sometimes brings punishment upon his relations: for] A'Obeyd says that جانيك من يجنى عليك is a prov. applied to the case of a man who is punished for an injurious action; because brothers [sometimes] bring injury upon a man [by occasioning his being punished for an injurious action which they have themselves committed], as the latter hemistich of the verse cited above indicates: but AHeyth says that this prov. means الجَانِى لَكَ الخَيْرَ مَنْ يَجْنِى عَلَيْكَ الشَّرَّ [The person bringing thee good is he who brings, or will bring, upon thee evil: perhaps intended as a caution; for the Arabs often suspect that a benefactor has some evil intention]: and he cites the following hemistich: تُعْدِي الصِّحَاحَ مَبَارِكُ الجُرْبِ [meaning Sometimes the places where the mangy camels lie down, and which afford benefit to other camels, infect the sound ones]. You say also, جَنَيْتَ هٰذَا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ [Thou hast brought this as an injury upon thyself]. (K in art. جل.)

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