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غَنَآءٌ

Root: غنى

Full Definition

غَنَآءٌ : see غِنًى, in two places; and see also 4, former half. A poet says, سَيُغْنِينِى ٱلَّذِى أَغْنَاكَ عَنِّى فَلَا فَقْرٌ يَدُومُ وَلَا غَنَآءُ [He will render me free from need who has rendered thee free from need of me: for poverty will not always continue, nor competence, or richness]: or, as some relate it, غِنَآءُ, meaning thereby the Verbal.Noun of : [see 3, above:] but it is said that the proper reading is غَنَآءُ; because this has no other meaning than that of غِنًى: so says ISd.
2 مَا فِيهِ غَنَآءُ ذَاكَ means There is not in him [ability for] the setting-up of that, and strength, or power, to bear it, or carry it, or to raise it upon his back and rise with it.
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