zunnār

belt, sash

زُنّار

Word

Noun · pattern فُعّال

Root

ز ن ر

Forms

Plural
زَنانِير

In the library

فأسلم النصراني وقطع زناره فلما رجعوا إلى بشر قال لهم: أسلم الطبيب، فقالوا: ومن أعلمك؟

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 10 entries
  • زَنَرَهُ Form I He filled it
    He filled it; (K;) namely, a vessel, and a water-skin. (TA.) -A2- See also what next follows.
  • زنّرهُ Form II He put upon him a زُنَّار
    ; (Msb;) or ↓ زَنَرَهُ, (K,) inf. n. زَنْرٌ; (TA;) [but the former is more probably correct, as تزنّر, mentioned below, is its quasi-pass.; or perhaps each is correct;] He put upon him a زُنَّار [or waist-belt]. (Msb, K.) ― -b2- زنّر عَيْنَهُ إِلَىَّ (assumed tropical:) He looked hard at me: so in the “ Nawádir: ” (TA: [see also the act. part. n., below:]) or زنّر إِلَىَّ بِعَيْنِهِ (tropical:) [he looked minutely at me]: and زَنَّرَتْ عَيْنُهُ (tropical:) his eye looked minutely. (A.)
  • تزّنر Form V bound a زُنَّار
    He (a Christian [or Jew or Sabian or Magian]) bound a زُنَّار [or waist-belt] upon his waist. (A, Msb.) ― -b2- (tropical:) It (a thing) became slender, or narrow, (A, K,) so as to be like a زُنَّار. (A.)
  • زُنَّار thing
    (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ زُنَّارَةٌ (A, K) and ↓ زُنَّيْرٌ (K) The thing [meaning waist-belt] that is upon the waist of the Christian (S, * A, * Msb, *K) and Magian; (K;) the thing which the ذِمِّىّ [or free non-Muslim subject of a Muslim government, who pays a poll-tax for his freedom and toleration, i. e., Christian, Jew, or Sabian,] binds upon his waist: (T, TA:) [accord. to the K, from تَزَنَّرَ “ it became slender, or narrow: ” but the reverse is implied in the A: see 5: and it is more probably derived from the Greek ζωνάρη, as observed by Golius, or ζωνάριον, as suggested by Freytag:] pl. زَنَانِيرُ. (A, Msb.) -A2- See also زِنِّيرٌ.
  • زُنَّيْرٌ Open entry
    : see زُنَّارٌ.
  • زِنِّيرٌ Pebbles
    , (T, TA,) or ↓ زِنِّيرَةٌ, as also ↓ زُنَّارَةٌ, (TA,) sing. of زَنَانِيرُ, (T, TA,) which signifies Pebbles: (IAar:) or small pebbles. (A'Obeyd, Kr, ISd, K.) ― -b2- Also زِنِّيرٌ and ↓ زُنَّارٌ (Kr,) or ↓ زِنِّيرَةٌ and ↓ زُنَّارَةٌ, (TA,) Certain small flies (Kr, K) that are in حُشُوش [i. e. gardens, or privies]. (Kr, TA.)
  • زُنَّارَةٌ Open entry
    : see زُنَّارٌ: -A2- and see زِنِّيرٌ, in two places.
  • زِنِّيرَةٌ Open entry
    : see زِنِّيرٌ, in two places.
  • مُزَنَّرَةٌ tall, and large in body
    A woman tall, and large in body. (K, TA.)
  • فُلَانٌ مُزَنِّرٌ إِلَىَ بِعَيْنِهِ Such a one is looking hard at me, and making the eye to project
    (assumed tropical:) Such a one is looking hard at me, and making the eye to project: so in the “ Nawadir. ” (T, TA. [See also the verb, 2.])

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