فناء
Root: فني
2 entries for this word
Hans Wehr Definitions
Entry 1
فناء fanā’ passing away, cessation of being; perdition, ruin, destruction, annihilation; evanescence, vanishing, termination, extinction; exhaustion; nonbeing, nonexistence, nonentity; extinction of individual consciousness, recedence of the ego, obliteration of the self (myst.)
Entry 2
فناء finā’ pl. افنية afniya courtyard; open space in front or at either side of a house; open hall │ رحابة فناء raḥābat al-f. hospitable reception, generous entertainment; سار يخطو في فناء الغرفة (yakṭū, f. il-gurfa) he walked about the room
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