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جنس

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of kind, sort, or genus. It extends to ideas of similarity, classification, and categorization, encompassing both broad categories and specific types within them.

Derived headwords

الجِنْسnoun
  1. 1.
    kind, sort, genusboth

    A category or class of things, often a broad classification. It is considered more general than 'type'.

المُجَانِسَةnoun
  1. 1.
    similarity, resemblanceboth

    The state or quality of being similar or alike; resemblance between things.

  2. 2.
    homonymyclassical

    In linguistics, the use of words that sound alike but have different meanings, or words that are spelled alike but have different meanings.

التَّجْنِيسnoun
  1. 1.
    classification, categorizationboth

    The act or process of classifying or arranging things into categories based on shared characteristics.

  2. 2.
    homonymyclassical

    A rhetorical device or linguistic phenomenon involving words that are identical in form but different in meaning.

مُجَانِسadjective
  1. 1.
    The common saying 'this is similar to this' is a coined term.both

    The common saying 'this is similar to this' is a coined term.

Parallel reading

الضرب من الشئ، وهو أعم من النوع
A kind of thing, and it is more general than 'type'.
ومنه المجانسة والتجنيس
And from it (comes) similarity and classification.
وزعم ابن دريد أن الأصمعي كان يدفع قول العامة: هذا مجانس لهذا، ويقول إنه مولد
And Ibn Duraid claimed that Al-Asma'i used to reject the common people's saying: 'This is similar to this,' and say that it is a neologism.