# جنة
## Arabic

* Root
* ج ن ن (j n n)
* 7 terms

### Etymology 1

Related to جَنّ (jann, “covering, protecting”), the sense of a paradise being borrowed from Classical Syriac ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā) or Middle Persian. Compare Hebrew גַּן (gan), Aramaic גִּנָּא (ginnā), Ugaritic 𐎂𐎐 (gn).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒan.na/

#### Noun

جَنَّة • (janna) f (plural جَنَّات (jannāt) or جِنَان (jinān))
* garden
    Synonyms: حَدِيقَة (ḥadīqa), بَاحَة (bāḥa), بُسْتَان (bustān)
* paradise, heaven, the Paradise, the Heaven, Elysium
    Synonyms: فِرْدَوْس (firdaws), نَعِيم (naʕīm)
    Antonyms: سَعِير (saʕīr), لَظَىٰ (laẓā), النَّار (an-nār), جَهَنَّم (jahannam), جَحِيم (jaḥīm), حُطَمَة (ḥuṭama), سَقَر (saqar), هَاوِيَة (hāwiya)

##### Related terms

* جَنَائِنِيّ (janāʔiniyy, “gardener”)
* جَنَّان (jannān, “gardener”)
* جُنَيْنَة (junayna, “little garden, garden”)

##### Descendants

* Maltese: ġnien, ġenna
* → Afar: gannat
* → Amharic: ጀነት (ǧännät)
* → Armenian: ջանաթ (ǰanatʻ)
* → Bashkir: йәннәт (yənnət)
* → Buduma: jénna
* → Classical Persian: جنت (jannat)
** Dari: جَنَّت (jannat)
** Iranian Persian: جَنَّت (jannat)
** Tajik: ҷаннат (jannat)
** → Azerbaijani: cənnət
** → Baluchi: جنت (jannat)
** → Bengali: জান্নাত (jannat)
** → Chagatai:
*** Uyghur: جەننەت (jennet)
*** Uzbek: jannat
** → Gujarati: જન્નત (jannat)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जन्नत (jannat)
    Urdu: جَنَّت (jannat)
** → Kazakh: жәннат (jännat)
** → Marathi: जन्नत (jannat)
** → Ottoman Turkish: جنت (cennet)
*** Turkish: cennet
*** → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
*** → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет
    Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet
** → Pashto: جنت (ǰanát)
** → Turkmen: jennet
* → English: Jannat
* → Fula: aljanna
* → Hausa: aljanna
* → Harari: ጀነት (ǧännät)
* → Ingush: Джаннат (Džannat)
* → Karaim: джанат (canat)
* → Kanuri: zánna
** → Bole: jánnà
** → Lagwan: zànnâ
** → Ngizim: jánnâ
* → Malay: jannah
* → Nogai: еннет (yennet)
* → Rohingya: jonnot
* → Russian: Джанна́т (Džannát), джанна́т (džannát)
* → Tatar: жәннәт (jännät)
* → Tigre: ጀነት (ǧännät)
* → Tigrinya: ጀነት (ǧännät)
* → Ukrainian: Джанна́т (Džannát), джанна́т (džannát)

#### References

* Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 84, page 27
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “جن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

جِنَّة • (jinna) f (plural جِنَّات (jinnāt))
* verbal noun of جُنَّ (junna)
* madness, craziness, possession, mania
    Synonyms: جُنُون (junūn), جَنّ (jann)
* (rare) demon, genie
    Synonym: جِنِّي (jinnī)
* (collective, in the plural, rare or Classical Arabic) jinn, demonkind, genies
    Synonyms: جِنّ (jinn), جَوَان (jawān), جِنَّان (jinnān)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 114:6:مِنَ ٱلْجِنَّةِ وَٱلنَّاسِmina l-jinnati wan-nāsifrom among the jinn/demonkind and Man.

##### Declension
#### Noun

جُنَّة • (junna) f
* thing which veils, conceals, hides, covers, or protects
* weapon or armor, a thing used to protect oneself, anything protective or defensive
* piece of cloth which a woman wears covering the face and the two sides of the bosom, a type of hijab or veil

##### Declension
## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ج ن ن
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒan.na/, [d͡ʒan.na], [ʒan.na]

### Noun

جَنَّة • (janna) f (plural جَنَّات (jannāt))
* heaven