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Root g-n-n

Imperial Aramaic Arabic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —g-n-ng-n-n. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Imperial Aramaic

arc
root: g-n-n
  • גנןverb
    to dwell, to inhabit
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Arabic

ar
root: g-n-n
  • جِنّjinnnoun☪︎ Q.2:25
    spiritual or otherwise unseen, undetectable, masked, or morphed beings that may be benevolent or helpful (agathodaemons, eudaemons), neutral, or malevolent (cacodemons); demonkind, jinn, genies
  • جُنَّjunnaverb☪︎ Q.2:25
    to be possessed
  • جَانّjānnnoun☪︎ Q.2:25
    snake, serpent
  • جَنَّةjannanoun☪︎ Q.2:25
    garden
  • مِجَنّmijannnoun☪︎ Q.2:25
    a shield
  • جَنِينjanīnnoun☪︎ Q.2:25
    embryo, foetus
  • جِنِينjinīnname☪︎ Q.2:25
    Jenin (a city in the West Bank, Palestine)
  • جُنَّ جُنُونًاjunna junūnanverb☪︎ Q.2:25
    to go crazy
Canonical root family: g-n-n