zanjara

snap the fingers

زَنْجَرَ

Word

Verb

Root

ز ن ج ر

Forms

Present: يُزَنْجِرُ

Conjugation

Person	Past	Present	Command
he هُوَ	زَنْجَرَ	يُزَنْجِرُ	—
she هِيَ	زَنْجَرَت	تُزَنْجِرُ	—
they two (m.) هُما	زَنْجَرا	يُزَنْجِرانِ	—
they two (f.) هُما	زَنْجَرَتا	تُزَنْجِرانِ	—
they (m.) هُمْ	زَنْجَرُوا	يُزَنْجِرُونَ	—
they (f.) هُنَّ	زَنْجَرْنَ	يُزَنْجِرْنَ	—
you (m.) أَنْتَ	زَنْجَرْتَ	تُزَنْجِرُ	زَنْجِرْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ	زَنْجَرْتِ	تُزَنْجِرِينَ	زَنْجِرِي
you two أَنْتُما	زَنْجَرْتُما	تُزَنْجِرانِ	زَنْجِرَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ	زَنْجَرْتُم	تُزَنْجِرُونَ	زَنْجِرُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ	زَنْجَرْتُنَّ	تُزَنْجِرْنَ	زَنْجِرْنَ
I أَنا	زَنْجَرْتُ	أُزَنْجِرُ	—
we نَحْنُ	زَنْجَرْنا	نُزَنْجِرُ	—

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 3 entries

زَنْجَرَ fillipped

, (Lth, K,) inf. n. زَنْجَرَةٌ, (S in art. زجر,) He [fillipped, or] struck the thumb upon, or against, the middle finger with the fore finger: (S in art. زجر:) or he fillipped with the nail of his thumb and that of his fore finger: (Lth, A, K: *) you say زَنْجَرَ لَهُ, meaning he put the nail of his thumb upon that of his fore finger, and then fillipped with them to him, (Lth, A, *) saying وَلَا مِثْلَ هٰذَا [Nor, or not even, the like of this will I give thee]; (Lth;) meaning thus, وَلَا أُعْطِيكَ مِثْلَ هٰذَا. (A.) The subst., (S,) or the name of this [action], (Lth,) is ↓ زِنْجِيرٌ. (Lth, S.)
زِنْجِيرٌ A fillip, such as is described above

[A fillip, such as is described above]: see what immediately precedes. ― -b2- A nail-paring: as also زِنْقِيرٌ: both foreign words introduced into the Arabic language: mentioned in the T among quadriliteral-radical words. (TA.) ― -b3- A whiteness [or white speck] seen on the nails of young persons; (AZ, K;) likewise called فُوفٌ and وَبْشٌ; (AZ, TA;) as also ↓ زِنْجِيرَةٌ. (AZ, K.) ― -b4- Accord. to IAar, ↓ this last signifies What the end of the thumb [or of the thumb-nail] takes from the extremity of the tooth when a man [presses the former against the edge of an upper front tooth and suddenly lets it go forward, and] says, مَا لَكَ عِنْدِى شَىْءٌ وَلَا ذِهْ I have not anything for thee: not even this: (TA:) [i. e. it means anything; always used in a negative phrase.]
زِنْجِيرَةٌ Open entry

: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

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