فني

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ف ن ي (f n y)
5 terms

From Proto-Semitic *pan-. Compare Biblical Hebrew פָּנִים (pānîm, face).

Pronunciation

Verb

فَنِيَ (faniya) I (non-past يَفْنَى (yafnā), verbal noun فَنَاء (fanāʔ))

  1. to perish, to pass away
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:مات
    • 12th–13th century CE, Ibn Arabi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      فَٱفْنَ إِنْ شِئْتَ فَنَاءً سَرْمَدًا – فَٱلْفَنَا يُدْنِي إِلَى ذَاكَ ٱلْغِنَى
      fafna ʔin šiʔta fanāʔan sarmadan – fal-fanā yudnī ʔilā ḏāka l-ḡinā
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to cease, to wane, to vanish
  3. to do one's best
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of فَنّ (fann, specialty, art) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Adjective

فَنِّيّ (fanniyy) (feminine فَنِّيَّة (fanniyya), masculine plural فَنِّيُّونَ (fanniyyūna), feminine plural فَنِّيَّات (fanniyyāt))

  1. specialized
  2. technical
  3. artistic
  4. tactical, strategic
Declension
Further reading
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “فن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Noun

فَنِّيّ (fanniyym (plural فَنِّيُّونَ (fanniyyūna), feminine فَنِّيَّة (fanniyya))

  1. technician
  2. artist
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: فنی (fenni)

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “فن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “فني”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “فني”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فني”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “فني”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz