الزَّنْجُ
Root: زنج
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الزَّنْجُ
and الزِّنْجُ, the latter being a dial. var. of the former, both of them chaste, [but the latter is the more common,] and
الزُّنُوجُ and
المَزْنَجَةُ , A certain nation of the blacks; [the inhabitants of the country called by us “ Zanguebar, ” including the “ Zingis ” of Ptolemy, near the entrance of the Red Sea, and a large portion of inner Africa:] their country is beneath, and to the south of, the equinoctial line; and beyond them is [said to be] no habitation, or cultivation: [sometimes applied to the Negroes absolutely; for] some say that their country extends from the western parts of Africa nearly to Abyssinia, [comprehending the whole of Nigritia properly so called, or at least the whole of the countries of the Negroes known to the Arabs of the classical ages,] and that part of it is on the Nile of Egypt: the n. un. is
زَنْجِىٌّ and زِنْجِىٌّ, like as رُومِىٌّ is of رُومٌ: and
أَزْنُجٌ occurs as a broken pl., meaning the divisions and subtribes [of that nation]: so says AAF, and so in the M.
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