ضَنْكٌ

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ضَنْكٌ an Verbal.Noun of ضَنُكَ: its primary signification is Narrowness, or straitness, and hardship.
2 And Narrow, or strait; syn. ضَيِّقٌ; (S, M, O, K; [in the CK, and in a copy of the S, ضِيق, which is also a correct explanation, as shown above; but not what is here meant, as appears from what follows;]) applied to anything, masc. and fem., being an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet. [Like the Pers. تَنْگ.] One says مَكَانٌ ضَنْكٌ A narrow, or strait, place. And عَيْشٌ ضَنْكٌ A strait life; or strait sustenance, or means of subsistence; as also عَيْشٌ ضَنِيكٌ : and thus مَعِيشَةً ضَنْكًا in the Kur xx. 123; where some read ضَنْكَى , like سَكْرَى: or this means such as is unlawful; every life that is unlawful being termed ضَنْكٌ, accord. to Lth, even though it be ample: Aboo-Is-hák thinks it to mean [subsistence] in the fire of Hell: but says that most explain this phrase in the Kur as meaning the punishment of the grave: thus it means accord. to Ibn-Mes'ood: or, accord. to Katádeh, Hell: or, accord. to Ed-Dahhák, forbidden gain: or, as some say, الضَّرِيعُ [q. v.], and الزَّكُّومُ [q. v.].

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