جِنَايَةٌ
1.
, primarily, The act of gathering, plucking, or taking from a tree, fruit: [see 1:]
2.
then, (assumed tropical:) The bringing to pass an evil thing, or action: (Mgh, Kull p. 147:)
3.
then, (assumed tropical:) Evil, [itself]:
4.
then, (assumed tropical:) The doing a forbidden action: (Kull ib.:) specially used in this last sense; though it has a general application: (Mgh:)
5.
[as a simple subst., it generally signifies] A crime, an offence, or an injurious action, for which one should be punished:
(Msb:) or an action that a man commits requiring punishment or retaliation to be inflicted upon him in the present world and in the world to come: (TA:) or any forbidden injurious action: (Kull p. 134:) and in the language of the lawyers, especially a wounding: and an amputation, or a maiming: (Msb:) and
جَنِيَّةٌ signifies the same as جِنَايَةٌ: (Ham p. 241:) the plural of جناية is جِنَايَاتٌ and جَنَايَا; but the latter of these pls. is of rare occurrence. (Msb.)