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جَنْي
harvesting (of fruit or crops) /ˈdʒanj/
nounB2#3323 most common
Also: picking (fruit), gathering (a crop), reaping (profits or benefits, in figurative use)
Example sentences
موسم الجَنْي جميل.
The harvest season is beautiful.
بدأ الفلاحون جَنْي القطن.
The farmers began picking the cotton.
جَنْي الزيتون يحتاج إلى صبر وخبرة.
Picking olives takes patience and experience.
تأخر جَنْي المحصول بسبب الأمطار الغزيرة.
The harvest was delayed by heavy rain.
يعتمد اقتصاد القرية على جَنْي التمر كل خريف.
The village's economy depends on the date harvest every autumn.
أدّى الجفاف إلى تراجع كبير في جَنْي المحاصيل هذا العام.
The drought caused a sharp drop in crop harvesting this year.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جَنْيٌ | |
| Genitive | جَنْيٍ | |
| Accusative | جَنْياً | |
| Vocative | يا جَنْيُ |
Word family
جنىto pick or harvest fruit; also, to commit a crime
جانٍharvester; also, offender or culprit
جِنايةfelony, crime
مَجْنِيّ عليهvictim (of a crime)
جَنىpicked fruit, produce
Etymology
جَنْي is a masdar, a verbal noun, built from the Arabic root ج ن ي on the pattern فَعْل. The root verb جنى means to pick or gather fruit by hand, and by extension to bring in a crop. The same root later gave Arabic the legal sense of committing an offense, since an act too is something a person brings upon themselves.
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