Root

ز ن ن

1 verb · 2 nouns and adjectives

Verbs

Nouns and adjectives

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • زَنڤ3َ Form I His sinews dried up
    see 4, in five places. -A2- زَنَّ عَصَبُهُ, [aor., accord. to rule, , or the sec. pers. may be زَنِنْتَ, and the aor. , and the inf. n., in this case, رَنَنٌ, which see below, but the TK makes its aor. to be , and the inf. n. زَنٌّ,] His sinews dried up. (K.) ― -b2- زَنَّ فَذَنَّ means حقن فقطر [which may be rendered He kept in, or retained, his urine, and then dribbled it, or his urine was kept in, or retained, and then dribbled]. (TA. [See زِنِّينٌ.])
  • أَزْنَنْتُهُ Form IV I thought him to possess good or evil
    I thought him to possess good or evil; as also ↓ زَنَنْتُهُ, aor. , inf. n. زَنٌّ: or both mean I imputed, or attributed, to him good or evil: (Msb:) or فُلَانًا بِخَيْرٍ ↓ زَنَّ or بِشَرٍّ he thought such a one to possess good or evil; like أَزَنَّهُ; syn. ظَنَّهُ بِهِ: (K:) or, accord. to Lh, one says, أَزْنَنْتُهُ بِمَالٍ and بِخَيْرٍ I thought him to possess [property and (as appears from what is said below on his authority) wealth]: but ↓ زَنَنْتُهُ is what the vulgar say, and is wrong. (TA.) And أَزْنَنْتُهُ بِشَىْءٍ, (S,) or بِكَذَا, (K,) and also بكذا ↓ زَنَنْتُهُ, (Har p. 112,) [and accord. to Golius ↓ اِزْتَنَنْتُهُ, mentioned by him as from the S, but not found therein by Freytag, nor by me in either of my copies,] I suspected him of a thing, or of such a thing: (S, K, and Har ubi suprà:) [but] Lh says, لَا يَكُونُ الإِزْنَانُ فِى الخَيْرِ [app. meaning that أَزَنَّ is not said in relation to that which is good: see what is cited on his authority above]. (TA.) And ازنّهُ بِالأَمْرِ He suspected him of the thing, or affair; like أَظَنَّهُ. (S.) And هُوَ يُزَنُّ بِكَذَا [He is suspected of such a thing]. (S.) Hassán says, " حَصَانٌ رَزَانٌ مَا تُزَنُّ بِرِيبَةٍ " i. e. [Chaste, staid,] she is not suspected of evil: [in which تُزَنُّ may be from ↓ زُنَّتْ or from أُزِنَّتْ:] but some restrict themselves to the quadriliteral verb [ازنّ]. (Msb.)
  • إِزْتَنَ3َ Form VIII Open entry
    see 4.
  • زَنَّةٌ A suspicion
    A suspicion: whence the saying, ↓ أَبُو زَنَّةٍ شَرٌّ مِنْهُ أَخُو زَنَّةٍ The ape, or baboon, or monkey, (القِرْدُ,) worse than he is the person who has conceived a suspicion: (A, TA:) [for] ― -b2- أَبُو زَنَّةٍ, (so in three copies of the S and in my MS. copy of the K,) or ↓ ابو زِنَّةٍ, (thus in the CK and TK and JM, [in the second and third of which it is expressly said to be “ with kesr, ” which, however, the author of the K should have added, accord. to his usual practice, if he meant it to be thus,]) signifies القِرْدُ. (S, K.)
  • أَبُو زِنَّةٍ Open entry
    : see what next precedes, in two places.
  • مَآءٌ زَنَنٌ A water, and waters, small in quantity, and narrow
    , and مِيَاهٌ زَنَنٌ, [which suggests that زَنَنٌ is an inf. n. used as an epithet,] A water, and waters, small in quantity, and narrow: (K:) [for] زَنَنٌ signifies strait, or narrow; like زَنَآءٌ and زَنِىٌّ [which do not belong to this art.]: (TA:) or مَآءٌ زَنَنٌ means [a place of water] of which one knows not whether there be in it water or not. (K.)
  • ظِلٌّ زَنَانٌ Short
    Short [or contracted] shade; like زَنَآءٌ [mentioned in art. زنأ]. (K.)
  • زُنَانَى A fluid like mucus, that falls from the noses of camels
    A fluid like mucus, that falls from the noses of camels: (K:) but the more approved word is ذُنَانَى. (TA.)
  • زَنَانِىٌّ who suffices for himself, without any other
    A man who suffices for himself, without any other. (K.)
  • زَنَّانٌ who opines, or conjectures, much; i. q
    One who opines, or conjectures, much; i. q. ظَنَّانٌ. (TA.)
  • زِنِّينٌ suppressing his urine and his ordure
    One suppressing his urine and his ordure: occurring in a trad.: or, as some say, it is زِبِّينٌ, [q. v.,] with ب. (TA. [But see 1, and see also what here follows.])
  • أَزَنُّ suppressing his urine
    One suppressing his urine [or his ordure]; syn. حَاقِنٌ: such is one of the persons forbidden, in a trad., to act as إِمَام to others. (TA in art. نصر: mentioned also, but not expl., in the present art. in the TA.) [See also the next preceding paragraph.]

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