تعني

تعني (form I)

1. تَعِنِّي (taʕinnī) /ta.ʕin.niː/: second-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of عَنَّ (ʕanna)
2. تَعُنِّي (taʕunnī) /ta.ʕun.niː/: second-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of عَنَّ (ʕanna)

تعني (form I)

1. تَعْنِي (taʕnī) /taʕ.niː/: inflection of عَنَى (ʕanā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
   3. second-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive
2. تَعْنِيَ (taʕniya) /taʕ.ni.ja/: inflection of عَنَى (ʕanā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
3. تُعْنَيْ (tuʕnay) /tuʕ.naj/: second-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of عَنَى (ʕanā)

• تعنة (tʕinne)

Inherited from Arabic تَعَنِّي (taʕannī), properly تَعَنٍّ (taʕannin, “exhaustion, suffering”), the verbal noun of تَعَنَّى (taʕannā, “to be exhausted, to suffer”). Has the form of a native form V verbal noun, and survived the extinction of this type of verbal noun in sedentary Levantine dialects by specializing in meaning.

The feminine gender comes with the word's development from a verbal noun into a non-derived noun due to said extinction: once it was no longer part of a class of nouns that consistently ends in ـِي (-i), it had little support for maintaining this relatively rare ending compared to the more common ـِة (-e, feminine ending), especially in dialects where ـِي (-i) and ـِة (-e) have merged and where تْعِنِّي (tʕinni) already sounds as if it has the feminine ending. This allowed it to undergo reanalysis.

• IPA^(key): /tʕinni, -e/

تعني • (tʕinni) m or f

1. a type of diarrhea; ulcerative colitis

   صار عندي تعني مش رح نام الليلة

   ṣār ʕindi tʕinni miš raḥ nām l-layle

   I just got tʕinni, I'm not going to sleep tonight