زَرْنَقَةٌ
Root: زرنق
Full Definition
def.2 Also i. q. عِينَةٌ; i. e. The buying of a thing from a man on credit, for more than its [current] price: or the doing thus, and then selling it to him, or to another, for less than the price for which it was purchased.
2 And Increase, excess, or addition; syn. زِيَادَةٌ. [For زَرْنَقَةٌ in this and the following senses, Freytag, in his Lex., has written زَرْنَق.]
3 And Debt. (K, TA. [In the CK, الدِّينُ is erroneously put for الدَّيْنُ: and it is there added, “ as though arabicized from زَرْنَهْ; i. e. الذَّهَبَ لَبِسَ: ” but what this should be I know not, unless it be a mistranscription for الذَّهَبُ لَيْسَ; for, in Pers., زَرْ means “ gold, ” and نَهْ is a negative.])
def.3 Also Perfect, or consummate, beauty.
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