فني

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ف ن ي‎ (f-n-y), from Proto-Semitic *pan-. Compare Biblical Hebrew פָּנִים‎ (pānîm, “face”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.ni.ja/

Verb

فَنِيَ • (faniya) I, non-past يَفْنَى‎‎ (yafnā)

  1. to perish, to pass away
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:مات
    • 12th–13th century CE, Ibn Arabi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      ‏فَٱفْنَ إِنْ شِئْتَ فَنَاءً سَرْمَدًا – فَٱلْفَنَا يُدْنِي إِلَى ذَاكَ ٱلْغِنَى‎
      fafna ʔin šiʔta fanāʔan sarmadan – fal-fanā yudnī ʔilā ḏāka l-ḡinā
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. to cease, to wane, to vanish
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of فَنّ‎ (fann, “specialty, art”) +‎ ـِيّ‎ (-iyy).

Adjective

فَنِّيّ • (fanniyy) (feminine فَنِّيَّة‎ (fanniyya), masculine plural فَنِّيُّون‎ (fanniyyūn), feminine plural فَنِّيَّات‎ (fanniyyāt))

  1. specialized
  2. technical
  3. artistic
  4. tactical, strategic
Declension
Further reading
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “فن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Noun

فَنِّيّ • (fanniyy) m, plural فَنِّيُّون‎ (fanniyyūn), feminine فَنِّيَّة‎ (fanniyya)

  1. technician
  2. artist
Declension
Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فنی‎ (fenni)

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “فن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837), “فني”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “فني”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “فني”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960), “فني”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
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