Arabic edit

Root
ن ج و (n-j-w)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

نَجَّى (najjā) II, non-past يُنَجِّي‎ (yunajjī)

  1. to save, to rescue
    Synonyms: أَنْجَى (ʔanjā), أَنْقَذَ (ʔanqaḏa), خَلَّصَ (ḵallaṣa), اِسْتَنْقَذَ (istanqaḏa)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:63:
      قُلْ مَن يُنَجِّيكُمْ مِن ظُلُمَاتِ الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ تَدْعُونَهُ تَضَرُّعًا وَخُفْيَةً لَئِنْ أَنْجَانَا مِنْ هَٰذِهِ لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الشَّاكِرِينَ
      qul man yunajjīkum min ẓulumāti l-barri wālbaḥri tadʕūnahu taḍarruʕan waḵufyatan laʔin ʔanjānā min hāḏihi lanakūnanna mina š-šākirīna
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References edit

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نجى”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[1] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie