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أَغْنَى
to enrich, to make wealthy /ʔaɣˈnaː/
verbB1#2748 most common
Also: to make unnecessary (used with عن), to spare someone the need for something
Example sentences
أَغْنَى العملُ الرجلَ.
Work made the man rich.
هذا الكتابُ أَغْنَى معرفتي.
This book enriched my knowledge.
أَغْنَتِ التجارةُ هذه المدينةَ.
Trade enriched this city.
كلامُك يُغني عن أي تعليق.
Your words make any comment unnecessary.
أَغْنَى الاكتشافُ النفطيُّ الدولةَ عن الاستيرادِ.
The oil discovery removed the country's need to import.
ما أَغْنَتْهُ ثروتُهُ الطائلةُ عن مواجهةِ مصيرِهِ المحتومِ.
His vast fortune did not spare him from facing his inevitable fate.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُغْنِي | أَغْنَيْتُ | سَأُغْنِي |
| 2sg | تُغْنِي | أَغْنَيْتَ | سَتُغْنِي |
| 3sg | يُغْنِي | أَغْنَى | سَيُغْنِي |
| 1pl | نُغْنِي | أَغْنَيْنَا | سَنُغْنِي |
| 2pl | تُغْنُونَ | أَغْنَيْتُمْ | سَتُغْنُونَ |
| 3pl | يُغْنُونَ | أَغْنَوْا | سَيُغْنُونَ |
Word family
غَنِيّrich, wealthy
غِنًىwealth, richness
إِغْنَاءenrichment (verbal noun of أغنى)
مُغْنٍenricher, sufficer (active participle)
اِسْتَغْنَىto become self-sufficient, to dispense with
Etymology
The verb comes from the Arabic root غ-ن-ي, which carries the core idea of richness or sufficiency. Adding the causative Form IV prefix أ- turns the base notion of being rich into the act of making someone or something rich. The same root gives Arabic its everyday word for rich, غني, and its word for wealth, غنى. No confirmed cognates outside Arabic are included here to avoid speculation.
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