ArabicGenius عَبْقَرِيُّ العَرَبِيَّةِ

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 5 entries
  • زَنَا Form I It was, or became, strait, or narrow
    , [aor. يَزْنُو,] inf. n. زُنُوٌّ, It was, or became, strait, or narrow; a dial. var. of زَنَأَ; (ISd, K, TA;) said of a place. (TA.)
  • زنّى عَلَيْهِ Form II He straitened, or oppressed, him; made strait, or close, to him
    He straitened, or oppressed, him; made strait, or close, to him: (ISd, K:) it occurs thus, without ء, by poetic license, for زَنَّأَ, in a saying of a rájiz cited in art. شدخ, as an ex. of the word شَادِخَةٌ. (S in art. زنأ.) -A2- زنّى also signifies He (a man) became lax in his joints. (TA in art. زن.)
  • زَنَآءٌ Open entry
    : see what next follows, and also art. زنأ.
  • زَنِىٌّ Strait, or narrow
    Strait, or narrow; (K;) as also ↓ زَنَآءٌ: (TA in art. زنأ from the Fáïk; and in art. زن:) the former mentioned in this sense by IAar; (TA;) applied to a bag, or other receptacle. (K, TA.) [See also زَنِىْءٌ, in art. زنأ.]
  • زِنَوِىٌّ Open entry
    rel. n. from زِنًى: see the next article.

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