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6 تَغَاْنَىَ see 1, former half, in two places. ― -b2- تَغَانُوْا means They were, or became, free from want, one of another, or, as we say, of one another. (S, K.) El-Mugheereh Ibn-Habnà says, “ عَنْ أَخِيهِ حَيَاتَهُ ↓ كِلَانَا غَنِىٌّ
وَنَحْنُ إِِذَا مُتْنَا أَشَدُّ تَغَانِيَا
” [Each of us is free from want of his brother in his life-time; and when we die, we shall be more free from such want]. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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