غِنَىself-sufficiency

Example sentences

• ويتودد إِلَيْهِ بأنواع إحسانه مع غناه عنه

  And who shows affection to him with different types of His kindness while being self-sufficient from him.

  غِنَاهُ — being self-sufficient. ghina means 'wealth, self-sufficiency'; the ending '-hu' adds 'His' — 'His self-sufficiency'.

  From: Seeds and Streams of Deeds →

• وغناك قبل فقرك،

  And your wealth before your poverty.

  وَغِنَاكَ — and your wealth. The joined 'and' plus a noun 'wealth' with an attached 'your' fused on, coordinated as another thing to seize: and your wealth. The possessor rides on the suffix; it continues the command's chain.

  From: Seize the Days You Have →

• قال الأمن مع الفقر خير من الغنى مع الخوف

  He said, 'Security with poverty is better than wealth with fear.'

  الغِنَى — the wealth. This is the noun after 'than', in the genitive because of it and made definite by 'al-', naming wealth as the second, less-favoured condition.

  From: Moderation in Medicine →

• وَهُوَ الْفَقْرُ اللَّازِمُ فَيَرُدُّكَ عَنْ غِنَى الْكِفَايَةِ

  And it is persistent poverty that turns you away from the wealth of sufficiency.

  غِنَى — the wealth. The noun 'wealth/sufficiency', head of a possessive pairing with 'sufficiency' that follows, giving 'the wealth of sufficiency'. As the head it stays bare of 'the' and, governed by the preceding 'from', takes the 'of' (genitive) ending; its final long vowel keeps its case-shape fixed.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →