تجنب

• IPA^(key): /ta.d͡ʒan.na.ba/

تَجَنَّبَ • (tajannaba) V (non-past يَتَجَنَّبُ (yatajannabu), verbal noun تَجَنُّب (tajannub))

1. to avoid, to shun
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 87:9-11:

     فَذَكِّرْ إِنْ نَفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَى / سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَى / وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى

     faḏakkir ʔin nafaʕati ḏ-ḏikrā / sayaḏḏakkaru man yaḵšā / wayatajannabuhā l-ʔašqā

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to be far from (transitive)
3. to keep (عَن (ʕan) from)
4. to turn aside (intransitive)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تجنب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /ta.d͡ʒan.nub/

تَجَنُّب • (tajannub) m

1. verbal noun of تَجَنَّبَ (tajannaba) (form V)

   حَرَصَ جُحَا عَلَى تَجَنُّبِ غَضَبِ زَوْجَتِهِ وَمَرَّةً...

   ḥaraṣa juḥā ʕalā tajannubi ḡaḍabi zawjatihi wamarratan...

   Joha was keen to avoid his wife's anger and once ...

تجنب (form I)

1. تَجْنُبُ (tajnubu) /tad͡ʒ.nu.bu/: inflection of جَنَبَ (janaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
2. تُجْنَبُ (tujnabu) /tud͡ʒ.na.bu/: inflection of جَنَبَ (janaba) and جُنِبَ (juniba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
3. تَجْنُبَ (tajnuba) /tad͡ʒ.nu.ba/: inflection of جَنَبَ (janaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
4. تُجْنَبَ (tujnaba) /tud͡ʒ.na.ba/: inflection of جَنَبَ (janaba) and جُنِبَ (juniba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
5. تَجْنُبْ (tajnub) /tad͡ʒ.nub/: inflection of جَنَبَ (janaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
6. تُجْنَبْ (tujnab) /tud͡ʒ.nab/: inflection of جَنَبَ (janaba) and جُنِبَ (juniba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

تجنب (form II)

1. تُجَنِّبُ (tujannibu) /tu.d͡ʒan.ni.bu/: inflection of جَنَّبَ (jannaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
2. تُجَنَّبُ (tujannabu) /tu.d͡ʒan.na.bu/: inflection of جَنَّبَ (jannaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
3. تُجَنِّبَ (tujanniba) /tu.d͡ʒan.ni.ba/: inflection of جَنَّبَ (jannaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
4. تُجَنَّبَ (tujannaba) /tu.d͡ʒan.na.ba/: inflection of جَنَّبَ (jannaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
5. تُجَنِّبْ (tujannib) /tu.d͡ʒan.nib/: inflection of جَنَّبَ (jannaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
6. تُجَنَّبْ (tujannab) /tu.d͡ʒan.nab/: inflection of جَنَّبَ (jannaba):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “جنب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic تَجَنَّبَ (tajannaba).

• IPA^(key): /tʒan.nab/, [ɪdˈʒan.nab], [ɪdˈd͡ʒan.nab]

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تجنّب • (tjannab) V (present بتجنّب (bitjannab))

1. to avoid, to keep away from