غنيمة

Arabic

Root
غ ن م (ḡ n m)
4 terms

غَنِيمَة

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣa.niː.ma/

Noun

غَنِيمَة • (ḡanīma) f (plural غَنَائِم (ḡanāʔim))

1. verbal noun of غَنِمَ (ḡanima, “to loot”) (form I)
2. booty, loot
3. trophy, prize

Declension

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غَنِيمَة ḡanīma	الْغَنِيمَة al-ḡanīma	غَنِيمَة ḡanīmat
Nominative	غَنِيمَةٌ ḡanīmatun	الْغَنِيمَةُ al-ḡanīmatu	غَنِيمَةُ ḡanīmatu
Accusative	غَنِيمَةً ḡanīmatan	الْغَنِيمَةَ al-ḡanīmata	غَنِيمَةَ ḡanīmata
Genitive	غَنِيمَةٍ ḡanīmatin	الْغَنِيمَةِ al-ḡanīmati	غَنِيمَةِ ḡanīmati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غَنِيمَتَيْن ḡanīmatayn	الْغَنِيمَتَيْن al-ḡanīmatayn	غَنِيمَتَيْ ḡanīmatay
Nominative	غَنِيمَتَانِ ḡanīmatāni	الْغَنِيمَتَانِ al-ḡanīmatāni	غَنِيمَتَا ḡanīmatā
Accusative	غَنِيمَتَيْنِ ḡanīmatayni	الْغَنِيمَتَيْنِ al-ḡanīmatayni	غَنِيمَتَيْ ḡanīmatay
Genitive	غَنِيمَتَيْنِ ḡanīmatayni	الْغَنِيمَتَيْنِ al-ḡanīmatayni	غَنِيمَتَيْ ḡanīmatay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غَنَائِم ḡanāʔim	الْغَنَائِم al-ḡanāʔim	غَنَائِم ḡanāʔim
Nominative	غَنَائِمُ ḡanāʔimu	الْغَنَائِمُ al-ḡanāʔimu	غَنَائِمُ ḡanāʔimu
Accusative	غَنَائِمَ ḡanāʔima	الْغَنَائِمَ al-ḡanāʔima	غَنَائِمَ ḡanāʔima
Genitive	غَنَائِمَ ḡanāʔima	الْغَنَائِمِ al-ḡanāʔimi	غَنَائِمِ ḡanāʔimi

Declension of noun غَنِيمَة (ḡanīma)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qənimət
• → Bashkir: ғәнимәт (ğənimət)
• → Hausa: gànīmā̀
• → Kazakh: ғанибет (ğanibet)
• → Northern Kurdish: xenîmet
• → Ottoman Turkish: غنامت (ganimet)

  > Turkish: ganimet (inherited)

• → Persian: غنامت (ğanimat)
  • → Hindi: ग़नीमत (ġanīmat)
• → Tatar: ганимәт (ğanimät)
• → Uyghur: غەنىمەت (ghenimet)
• → Uzbek: gʻanimat

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غنيمة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 299
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غنيمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غنيمة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 929