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جنف

inclining

2 occurrences

Representative gloss derived from QAC word translations

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Surahs

Classical lexicon

جنف

أصل الجنف ميل في الحكم، فقوله تعالى: فمن خاف من موص جنفا [البقرة/ 182]، أي: ميلا ظاهرا، وعلى هذا: غير متجانف لإثم [المائدة/ 3]، أي: مائل إليه.

Exdore translation — not part of the source

Cenef'in aslı: hükümde meyildir (bir tarafa/haksızlığa eğilim). Allah Teâlâ'nın şu sözü: "Kim, vasiyet edenin bir cenef (haksızlığa meyil) yapmasından korkarsa" [2:182], yani: açık bir meyilden (korkarsa). Buna göre: "gayra mütecânifin li-ismin" (günaha meyleden olmaksızın) [5:3], yani: ona (günaha) meyleden (anlamındadır).

Râgıb el-İsfahânî, el-Müfredât fî Garîbi'l-Kur'ân · OpenITI (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. 502/1108), Mufradāt Alfāẓ al-Qurʾān. The work is public domain; the text is taken from the OpenITI corpus, based on the edition of Ṣafwān ʿAdnān al-Dāwūdī. This is lexical/root study, not tafsīr.

Word family · 2

Dictionary forms (lemmas) derived from this root, by frequency

جَنَفNoun(any) error1
مُتَجانِفNouninclining1

Derived forms · 2

مُتَجَانِفٍ
inclining
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جَنَفًا
(any) error
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