غَانٍ
Root: غنى
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غَانٍ
: see غَنِىٌّ.
2 [The fem.] غَانِيَةٌ signifies A young woman who is sufficed by her husband; or satisfied, or content, with him, so as to be in no need, or free from want, of any other: and sometimes, also, applied to a woman, such as is sufficed by her beauty, so as to be in no need of decoration with women's ornaments: or such as is sought, or desired, by men, but does not seek, or desire: or such as has abode in the house, or tent, of her father and mother, and whom captivity (سِبَآء) has not befallen; which is the strangest of the explanations: or such as is youthful and chaste, whether having a husband or not: or, accord. to AO, one that is married: or, accord. to Az, such as pleases men, and is pleased by شَبَاب [which means both youthfulness and youths or young men]: pl. غَوَانٍ; with the article, الغَوَانِى; [and also غَانِيَاتٌ: (see an ex. in a verse cited in the second paragraph of art. زج:)] in the saying of Ibn-Er-Rukeiyát,
2 [The fem.] غَانِيَةٌ signifies A young woman who is sufficed by her husband; or satisfied, or content, with him, so as to be in no need, or free from want, of any other: and sometimes, also, applied to a woman, such as is sufficed by her beauty, so as to be in no need of decoration with women's ornaments: or such as is sought, or desired, by men, but does not seek, or desire: or such as has abode in the house, or tent, of her father and mother, and whom captivity (سِبَآء) has not befallen; which is the strangest of the explanations: or such as is youthful and chaste, whether having a husband or not: or, accord. to AO, one that is married: or, accord. to Az, such as pleases men, and is pleased by شَبَاب [which means both youthfulness and youths or young men]: pl. غَوَانٍ; with the article, الغَوَانِى; [and also غَانِيَاتٌ: (see an ex. in a verse cited in the second paragraph of art. زج:)] in the saying of Ibn-Er-Rukeiyát,
[May God not bless those young women that are sufficed by their husbands, or by their beauty, &c.: do they enter upon the time of dawn without their having desire ?], the ى is made movent by a poetic license: and another poet uses الغَوَانِ for الغَوَانِى.لَا بَارَكَ ٱللّٰهُ فِى الغَوَانِىِ هَلْ يُصْبِحْنَ إِلَّا لَهُنَّ مُطَّلَبُ
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