Arabic root

غ-ن-ي

Ghayn-Nun-Ya

4 words from this root family

About this root

Ghayn-Nun-Ya (غ-ن-ي) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: ghanī (rich / wealthy), ughniya (song), mughannī (singer (male)), ghannā (to sing).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 73 times in 72 verses, across 44 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:263. The form غَنِيّ (rich / wealthy) accounts for 24 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics, Hobbies, Entertainment, Verbs

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
غَنِيّ ghanī	rich / wealthy	adjective, A1	24×	Adjectives - Materials & Textures
أُغْنِية ughniya	song	noun, A2		Movies & Television
مُغَنّي mughannī	singer (male)	noun, A2		Movies & Television
غَنّى ghannā	to sing	verb, A2		Movies & Television

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

۞ قَوْلٌ مَّعْرُوفٌ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِّن صَدَقَةٍ يَتْبَعُهَآ أَذًى ۗ وَٱللَّهُ غَنِىٌّ حَلِيمٌ

A kind word with forgiveness is better than almsgiving followed by injury. Allah is Absolute, Clement.

Quran 2:263

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَن تُغْنِىَ عَنْهُمْ أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَـٰدُهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًٔا ۖ وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمْ وَقُودُ ٱلنَّارِ

(On that Day) neither the riches nor the progeny of those who disbelieve will aught avail them with Allah. They will be fuel for Fire.

Quran 3:10

وَنَادَىٰٓ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْأَعْرَافِ رِجَالًا يَعْرِفُونَهُم بِسِيمَىٰهُمْ قَالُوا۟ مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنكُمْ جَمْعُكُمْ وَمَا كُنتُمْ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ

And the dwellers on the Heights call unto men whom they know by their marks, (saying): What did your multitude and that in which ye took your pride avail you?

Quran 7:48

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).