غلن

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of high prices or expensiveness. It is used to describe something sold at a high cost, implying a significant markup or inflated value.

Derived headwords

غَلَنَverb

1.
to be expensiveboth
To have a high price or cost.

غَلَانِيَةnoun

1.
expensivenessclassical
The state or quality of being expensive; high price.
2.
high priceclassical
A price that is significantly elevated.

الغَلَانِيَةnoun

1.
expensivenessclassical
The state or quality of being expensive; high price.
2.
high priceclassical
A price that is significantly elevated.

غَلَانِيَاnoun

1.
expensivenessclassical
The state or quality of being expensive; high price.
2.
high priceclassical
A price that is significantly elevated.

Parallel reading

بعته بالغلانية أي بالغلاء

I sold it at a high price, meaning expensiveness.

هذا معناه

This is its meaning.

وليس من لفظه

And it is not from its wording.

فاشنأه، وذا الود فاجزه ... على وده، أو زد عليه الغلانيا

So detest it, and for that affection, reciprocate... for its affection, or add to it expensiveness.

إنما أراد الغلاء أو الغالي

He only intended expensiveness or the expensive.

فإن قلت: فإن وزن الغلانيا هنا الفعالي وقد قال سيبويه إن الهاء لازمة لفعالية

If you say: The pattern of 'al-ghalāniyā' here is 'al-fa'āli', and Sibawayh said that the 'hā'' is inherent to 'fa'āliyah'.

قيل له: قد يجوز أن يكون هذا مما لم يروه سيبويه

It is said to him: It is possible that this is from what Sibawayh did not narrate.

وقد يكون أن يريد الأعشى الغلانية فحذف الهاء ضرورة ليسلم الروي من الوصل

And it may be that Al-A'sha intended 'al-ghalāniyah' and omitted the 'hā'' out of necessity to preserve the rhyme from elision.

لأن هذا الشعر غير موصول

Because this poetry is not connected.

ألا ترى أن قبل هذا: متى كنت زراعا أجر السوانيا

Do you not see that before this: 'When were you a farmer hiring out the water-wheels?'

والقطعة معروفة من شعره

And the passage is known from his poetry.

وقد يكون الغلانيا جمع غلانية

And 'al-ghalāniyā' might be a plural of 'al-ghalāniyah'.

وإن كان هذا في المصادر قليلا

Even though this is rare in the case of masdars.