Arabic

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Root
ن ج و (n j w)
8 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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نَجَّى (najjā) II (non-past يُنَجِّي (yunajjī), verbal noun تَنْجِيَة (tanjiya))

  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

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  • 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