اغناهُ
1.
He (i. e. God, S, K, TA, [but wanting in the CK and apparently in several copies of the K,]) rendered him, or made him to be, in no need, or free from want; (S, * MA, K; *) [or in a state of competence, or sufficiency;] or possessed of wealth; (S, * K, * TA;) [or rich, or wealthy; (see 1, first sentence;)] and
غنّاهُ signifies the same; (K, TA; [but wanting in the CK and apparently in several copies of the K;]) or, as some say, this latter is [used] in prayer [apparently as meaning he said to him, May God enrich thee, or the like: compare سَقَّيْتُهُ (“ I said to him, May God send down rain to thee ”), and عَقَّرْتُهُ (as explained in article عقر), &c.]. (TA.) [And اغناهُ عَنْ كَذَا
He, or it, caused him to be in no need, or free from want, of such a thing. (See Ham p. 152.) And يُغْنِى عَنْ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا
It renders needless thy doing such a thing: lit. it causes that there shall be no need of thy doing such a thing.]
2.
And اغنى عَنْهُ كَذَا
Such a thing sufficed him; or stood him in stead: whence the saying in the Qur'an, 69:28, مَا أَغْنَىعَنِّى مَالِيَهْ [My property has not sufficed me, or stood me in stead]: and [in iii. 8 and lviii. 18 of the same,] لَنْ تُغْنِىَ عَنْهُمْ أَمْوَالُهُمْ [Their possessions will not suffice them in lieu of God]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or this last means, will not defend them from God, i. e. from his punishment. (Jel in iii. 8.) And
أَغْنَيْتُ عَنْكَ مَغْنَى
فُلَانٍ and
مَغْنَاتَهُ, (S, Msb, K, *) and
مُغْنَى
فُلَانٍ and
مُغْنَاتَهُ, (S, Mgh, K,) and فُلَانٍ
غَنَاءَ, (K,) I sufficed, or satisfied, or contented, thee, or I have sufficed, &c., as such a one; or I stood thee, or served thee, or I have stood &c., in the stead of such a one. (S, * Mgh, Msb, K.) And مَا يُغْنِى عَنْكَ هٰذَا
This does not suffice, or satisfy, or content, thee; or stand thee, or serve thee, in any stead; and does not avail, or profit, thee.
(S.) AZ mentions مَا أَغْنَى فُلَانٌ شَيْيءًا, thus, and with ع, [i. e. أَعْنَى,] as meaning Such a one did not avail, or profit, at all, in a difficult, or an arduous, affair or case; and did not suffice for such an affair or such a case, or for the supply of what was necessary for subsistence. (Msb, TA.) And he says also that he heard a man chide his slave, and say to him, أَغْنِ عَنِّى وَجْهَكَ بَلْ شَرَّكَ, meaning Free me from, and avert from me, [thy face, nay, rather,] thy evil, or mischief: and hence the phrase شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ, [respecting which see the second sentence in article عنى,] in the Qur'an, 80:37. (TA.) [Hence also,] وَمَا أُغْنِى عَنْكُمْ
مِنَ اللّٰهِ مِنْ شَىْءٍ, in the Qur'an, 12:67, means But I do not avert from you, by my saying this, anything decreed to befall you from God: the second من is redundant. (Jel.) And one says, أَغْنِ
عَنِّى كَذَا, meaning Put thou away from me, and remove far from me, such a thing: properly [أَغْنِنِى عَنْ كَذَا, originally meaning render thou me in no need of such a thing,] a phrase of the same kind as عَرَضَ الدَّابَّةَ عَلَى المَاءِ [for عَرَضَ
المَاءَ عَلَى الدَّابَّةِ]. (Mgh.)
3.
أَغْنَى عَنْهُ as intrans.: see 1, former half.
4.
مَا أَغْنَاهُ [How free from wants, or how rich, or wealthy, is he!]: this and مَا أَفْقَرَهُ are [said to be] anomalous; for their [respective] verbs are استغنى and افتقر, from either of which the verb of wonder may not properly [or regularly] be formed. (S in article فقر. [But see غَنِىَ as synonym with استغنى; and see also article فقر.])