عنى

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.naː/

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عَنَى • (ʕanā) I (non-past يَعْنِي (yaʕnī), verbal noun عَنْي (ʕany) or عِنَايَة (ʕināya))

1. to mean, to signify
2. to concern, to refer to

• يَعْنِي (yaʕnī) (see there for borrowings into other languages)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عنى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “عنى”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

عَنَى • (ʕanā) I (non-past يَعْنِي (yaʕnī), verbal noun عَنَايَة (ʕanāya) or عِنَايَة (ʕināya) or عُنِيّ (ʕuniyy))

1. to fill with anxiety, to engross, to trouble

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عنى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

عَنَى • (ʕanā) I (non-past يَعْنِي (yaʕnī), verbal noun عَنْي (ʕany))

1. to happen, to occur, to befall
2. to produce
3. to do good, to agree with

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عنى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen

عَنَى • (ʕanā) I (non-past يَعْنِي (yaʕnī), verbal noun عَنَاء (ʕanāʔ))

1. to be a captive
2. to do good, to agree with

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عنى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic عَنَى (ʕanā).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.na/, [ˈʕa.na]

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عنى • (ʕana) I (present بعني (biʕni) or بيعني (byaʕni))

1. to mean, to intend, to indicate
2. to concern

• The non-past forms may use the vowel “a” in the prefix.
• The subjunctive form يعني (yaʕni) is also used as an interjection or filler word.