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قنع

قنع

Arabic

Verb

قَنِعَ (qaniʿa) I, non-past يَقْنَعُ‎ (yaqnaʿu)

  1. to be contented (بِ (bi) with)
  2. to be able to do (عَن (ʿan) without)
  3. to allow oneself to be convinced, to be convinced
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Etymology 2

From the root ق ن ع (q-n-ʿ).

Verb

قَنَعَ (qanaʿa) I, non-past يَقْنَعُ‎ (yaqnaʿu)

  1. to solicit, to pray humbly, to beg
  2. to submit
  3. to ascend (a mountain), to mount
  4. to be contented (بِ (bi) with)
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Verb

قَنَعَ (qanaʿa) I, non-past يَقْنَعُ‎ (yaqnaʿu)

  1. to put the orifice of the bag to one's mouth in order to drink
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Etymology 3

Causative of قَنِعَ (qaniʿa, to be contented); for meaning "to veil" and similar, denominative verb derived from قِنَاع (qināʿ, veil).

Verb

قَنَّعَ (qannaʿa) II, non-past يُقَنِّعُ‎ (yuqanniʿu)

  1. to content
  2. to bid to be satisfied
  3. to convince, to persuade
  4. to put on the veil قِنَاع (qināʿ)
  5. to veil
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Etymology 4

Noun

قَنَع (qanaʿ) m

  1. verbal noun of قَنِعَ (qaniʿa, to be contented, to be convinced) (form I)
  2. contentment, contentedness
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Etymology 5

Noun

قَنْع (qanʿ) m

  1. verbal noun of قَنَعَ (qanaʿa, to put the orifice of a bag to one's mouth to drink) (form I)
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Etymology 6

Adjective

قَنِع (qaniʿ) (masculine plural قَنِعُون (qaniʿūn))

  1. content, satisfied
Declension
References
  • قنع” in J.A. Haywood and H.M. Nahmad (1965), A new Arabic grammar (second edition), London: Lund Humphries, ISBN 0-85331-585-X
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), قنع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Etymology 7

Noun

قُنُع (qunuʿ) m pl

  1. plural of قِنَاع (qināʿ)