جنى

جِنَايَةٌ جنايه جناية , primarily, The act of gathering, plucking, or taking from a tree, fruit: [see 1:] ― -b2- then, (assumed tropical:) The bringing to pass an evil thing, or action: (Mgh, Kull p. 147:) ― -b3- then, (assumed tropical:) Evil, [ itself ]: ― -b4- then, (assumed tropical:) The doing a forbidden action: (Kull ib.:) specially used in this last sense; though it has a general application: (Mgh:) ― -b5- [as a simple subst., it generally signifies] A crime, an offence, or an injurious action, for which one should be punished: (Msb:) or an action that a man commits requiring punishment or retaliation to be inflicted upon him in the present world and in the world to come: (TA:) or any forbidden injurious action: (Kull p. 134:) and in the language of the lawyers, especially a wounding: and an amputation, or a maiming: (Msb:) and ↓ جَنِيَّةٌ signifies the same as جِنَايَةٌ: (Ham p. 241:) the pl. of جناية is جِنَايَاتٌ and جَنَايَا; but the latter of these pls. is of rare occurrence. (Msb.)