גְּנַאי, (גני) disgrace, shame, blame; obscenity. Ab. Zar. 46ᵃ a byname לג׳ of reproach, (cacophemistic, opp. לשבח). Kidd. 33ᵇ; Y. Shek. V, 49ᵃ bot. חד אמר לג׳ one says ‘they looked after Moses’ (Ex. XXXIII, 8) with the purpose of fault-finding; Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 27. Meg. 25ᵇ כל המקראות … לג׳ וכ׳ words in the Torah which, as they are written (v. כתיב), have become obscene, are in reading changed &c. (שגל changed into שכב &c.). Ber. 33ᵇ ג׳ הוא לו it would be offering an insult to him; a. fr.