جناح

Uncertain; no Semitic cognates exist which are not suspected to be borrowed from Arabic. Likely related to Egyptian ḏnḥ, either through inheritance or through borrowing; also compare جَنَحَ (janaḥa, “to lean”) (both referring to the concept of side).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.naːħ/

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جَنَاح • (janāḥ) m (plural أَجْنِحَة (ʔajniḥa) or أَجْنُح (ʔajnuḥ))

1. wing (organ of flight)
2. wing (part of army)
3. wing (part of building)
4. shoulder, arm, hand
5. side, edge
6. fin
7. projecting roof
8. protection, refuge

From Middle Persian; compare modern Persian گناه (gonâh).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒu.naːħ/

جُنَاح • (junāḥ) m

1. (singular only) blame, misdemeanor, transgression, wrong

   Synonym: ذَنْب (ḏanb)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:102:

     وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِن كَانَ بِكُمْ أَذًى مِّن مَّطَرٍ أَوْ كُنْتُم مَّرْضَىٰ أَن تَضَعُوا أَسْلِحَتَكُمْ وَخُذُوا حِذْرَكُمْ

     walā junāḥa ʕalaykum ʔin kāna bikum ʔaḏan min maṭarin ʔaw kuntum marḍā ʔan taḍaʕū ʔasliḥatakum waḵuḏū ḥiḏrakum

     There is no blame upon you if ye are vexed by rain or ye are sick that ye lay down your arms, but exercise caution.

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جناح”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 223
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 102–103
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “جناح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 469.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جناح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 247
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جناح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 166
• Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000–2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pages 80–81

From Arabic جَنَاح (janāḥ).

جناح • (genāḥ) m

1. wing

From Arabic جَنَاح (janāḥ).

• IPA^(key): /ʒnaːħ/

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جناح • (jnāḥ) m (plural جوانح (jwānaḥ) or جناحات (jnāḥāt) or أجنحة (ʔajniḥa))

1. wing

Hyperforeignism of Gujarati ઝીણા (jhīṇā).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪ.nɑːɦ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɦ
• Hyphenation: جِ‧ناح

جِناح • (jināh) m or f by sense (Hindi spelling जिनाह)

1. a surname, Jinnah, originating as a patronymic, held by the Jinnah Family
   1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

      Synonym: قائِدِ اَعْظَم (qāid-i a'zam)

• “جناح”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• “جناح”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.