ظَنُونٌ
Root: ظن
Full Definition
ظَنُونٌ
A man who thinks evil of everyone.
2 A man possessing little good or goodness: or, as some say, of whom one asks [a thing] thinking that he will refuse, and who is as he was thought to be: [or] ظَنِينٌ has this latter meaning.
3 A man in whose goodness no trust, or confidence, is to be placed. And Anything in which no trust, or confidence, is to be placed, of water, and of other things; as also ظَنِينٌ . A well (بِئْرٌ) having little water, in the water of which no trust, or confidence, is to be placed: or a well, or a drinkingplace, of which one knows not whether there be in it water or not: or water which one imagines, or supposes, to exist, but of which one is not sure. كُلُّ مَنِيَّةٍ ظَنُونٌ إِلَّا القَتْلَ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللّٰهِ is a saying mentioned, but not expl., by IAar; [app. meaning Every death is doubtful as to its consequence except slaughter in the way, or cause, of God; but ISd says,] in my opinion the meaning is that it is of little good and profit. دَيْنٌ ظَنُونٌ means A debt of which one knows not whether he who owes it will pay it or not: it is said in a trad. of 'Omar that there is no poorrate in the case of such a debt.
4 Also A man suspected in relation to his intellect, or intelligence. And A woman suspected in relation to her grounds of pretension to respect, or honour, on account of lineage &c. And A woman of noble rank or quality, who is taken in marriage, from a desire of obtaining off spring by her, when she is advanced in age.
5 Also A weak man. (K. [See also ظَنينٌ.])
6 And A man having little artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill.
2 A man possessing little good or goodness: or, as some say, of whom one asks [a thing] thinking that he will refuse, and who is as he was thought to be: [or] ظَنِينٌ has this latter meaning.
3 A man in whose goodness no trust, or confidence, is to be placed. And Anything in which no trust, or confidence, is to be placed, of water, and of other things; as also ظَنِينٌ . A well (بِئْرٌ) having little water, in the water of which no trust, or confidence, is to be placed: or a well, or a drinkingplace, of which one knows not whether there be in it water or not: or water which one imagines, or supposes, to exist, but of which one is not sure. كُلُّ مَنِيَّةٍ ظَنُونٌ إِلَّا القَتْلَ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللّٰهِ is a saying mentioned, but not expl., by IAar; [app. meaning Every death is doubtful as to its consequence except slaughter in the way, or cause, of God; but ISd says,] in my opinion the meaning is that it is of little good and profit. دَيْنٌ ظَنُونٌ means A debt of which one knows not whether he who owes it will pay it or not: it is said in a trad. of 'Omar that there is no poorrate in the case of such a debt.
4 Also A man suspected in relation to his intellect, or intelligence. And A woman suspected in relation to her grounds of pretension to respect, or honour, on account of lineage &c. And A woman of noble rank or quality, who is taken in marriage, from a desire of obtaining off spring by her, when she is advanced in age.
5 Also A weak man. (K. [See also ظَنينٌ.])
6 And A man having little artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill.
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