Arabic edit

Etymology edit

In view of the irregular homorganic first and third radical, a mashup of some other morphemes, غُنَّة (ḡunna), أُغْنِيَّة (ʔuḡniyya) or غَنَم (ḡanam) with perhaps عَن عَوَجٍ (ʕan ʕawajin);[1] the verbs and adjectives are to be presumed denominal.

Monši-Zâde deems likely a Middle Iranian loan related to قر (qer, rotation; twerk), قر دادن (qer dâdan, to rotate), غل دادن (ğel dâdan, to rotate), گردیدن (gardidan), گلیدن (galidan), غلتیدن (ğaltidan), غلطیدن (ğaltidan, to sway around, to roll, to wallow), غلط (ğalt), غلت (ğalt), غل (gal, rotation), غلطک (ğaltak), غلتک (ğaltak, cylinder, roll; mangle; bucket-wheel), غلتنگ (ğaltang, cylinder, roll).[2]

Verb edit

غَنِجَ (ḡanija) I, non-past يَغْنَجُ‎ (yaḡnaju)

  1. to vocalize erotic disposition as a female, to coquet, to flirt, to tease

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Verb edit

غَنَّجَ (ḡannaja) II, non-past يُغَنِّجُ‎ (yuḡanniju)

  1. to entice or pamper by flirtatious words
    • 2008, apparently some random poet on the internet wrote[2]:
      وَمَا عَادَ ٱلشَّبَابُ
      لَوْلَاهُ مَا ٱخْضَرَّ ٱلنَّبَاتُ
      إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ غَنَّجْتُهُ
      أَوْ كُنْتُ قَدْ دَلَّلْتُهُ
      أَوْ كُنْتُ قَدْ كَرَّمْتُهُ
      فَكُلُّ ذَا قَلِيلٌ
      wamā ʕāda š-šabābu
      lawlāhu mā ḵḍarra n-nabātu
      ʔin kuntu qad ḡannajtuhu
      ʔaw kuntu qad dallaltuhu
      ʔaw kuntu qad karramtuhu
      fakullu ḏā qalīlun
      Youth has not returned,
      Without it the plant greens not
      When I pampered it
      Or when I led it
      Or when I hearted it
      Anyhow this is all trifling

Conjugation edit

Adjective edit

غَنِج (ḡanij) (feminine غَنِجَة (ḡanija))

  1. coquet, flirty

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Noun edit

غُنْج or غُنُج (ḡunj or ḡunujm

  1. verbal noun of غَنِجَ (ḡanija); any enticement from a female by her voice, a woman’s retentive messaging or even female copulatory vocalization specifically
    • 1585±12, as-Suyūṭī, شقائق الأترنج في رقائق الغنج[3], Chapter 4: الآثار:
      فَقَالَ بَعْضُ ٱلْأَطِبَّاءِ: الْحِكْمَةُ فِي ٱلْغُنْجِ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ ٱلسَّمْعُ حَظَّهُ مِنَ ٱلْجِمَاعِ
      faqāla baʕḍu l-ʔaṭibbāʔi: al-ḥikmatu fī l-ḡunji ʔan yaʔḵuḏa s-samʕu ḥaẓẓahu mina l-jimāʕi
      Some physicians said: The evolutionary reason of female copulatory vocalization is so the sense of hearing can have its part in sexual intercourse […]

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References edit

  1. ^ غَنَم عَن عَوَجٍ (ḡanam ʕan ʕawajin) is suggested by Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 931, though we would have expected them to suggest reduplication or augmentation from the biradical.
  2. ^ Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 72 Nr. 215