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تَعَنَّى
to take great pains (over something) /ta.ʕanˈnaː/
verbB2#3058 most common
Also: to trouble oneself, to exert great effort, to endure hardship for something
Example sentences
تَعَنَّتْ في طَبْخِ الطَّعامِ.
She took great pains in cooking the food.
لا داعِيَ أَنْ تَتَعَنَّى في هٰذا الأَمْرِ.
There is no need for you to trouble yourself over this matter.
تَعَنَّى الطّالِبُ كَثيرًا لِيَفْهَمَ الدَّرْسَ.
The student went to great trouble to understand the lesson.
تَعَنَّتِ الأُمُّ في تَرْبِيَةِ أَبْنائِها وَحْدَها.
The mother exerted herself greatly in raising her children alone.
بَعْدَ أَنْ تَعَنَّى الباحِثُ سَنَواتٍ في جَمْعِ البَياناتِ، تَوَصَّلَ إِلى نَتيجَةٍ مُذْهِلَةٍ.
After the researcher took great pains for years gathering data, he arrived at an astonishing result.
لَمْ يَتَعَنَّ الكاتِبُ عَناءَ المُراجَعَةِ قَبْلَ نَشْرِ مَقالِهِ، فَوَقَعَ في أَخْطاءَ كانَ يُمْكِنُ تَجَنُّبُها.
The writer did not bother himself with the trouble of reviewing before publishing his article, so he fell into mistakes that could have been avoided.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَتَعَنَّى | تَعَنَّيْتُ | سَأَتَعَنَّى |
| 2sg | تَتَعَنَّى | تَعَنَّيْتَ | سَتَتَعَنَّى |
| 3sg | يَتَعَنَّى | تَعَنَّى | سَيَتَعَنَّى |
| 1pl | نَتَعَنَّى | تَعَنَّيْنا | سَنَتَعَنَّى |
| 2pl | تَتَعَنَّوْنَ | تَعَنَّيْتُمْ | سَتَتَعَنَّوْنَ |
| 3pl | يَتَعَنَّوْنَ | تَعَنَّوْا | سَيَتَعَنَّوْنَ |
Word family
عَناءhardship, toil, trouble
عانىto suffer, endure (something difficult)
عَنَّىto cause someone hardship, torment
مَعْنىmeaning
Etymology
Arabic is a Semitic language, so this word has no Indo-European origin and no PIE root. It comes from the triliteral Semitic root ʿ-n-y, which carries the sense of being occupied, troubled, or made to suffer. The base verb ʿanā and the Form II verb ʿannā (to cause hardship) feed into this Form V verb, which turns that causing of hardship back onto oneself: to make oneself suffer the effort.
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