زنّد
Root: زند
Form: 2
Full Definition
زنّدII
, Verbal.Noun تَزْنِيدٌ, He made his
زَنْد
to produce fire.
def.2 He lied.
def.3 He filled a water-skin, or milk-skin; as also , Verbal.Noun زَنْدٌ; and in like manner a watering-trough, and a vessel: and he filled his water-skin, or milk-skin, so that it became like the زَنْد, i. e. [hard, or firm, being] full.
2 [He made, or rendered, narrow. You say,] لِلْفَرَسِ مَنْخِرٌ لَمْ يُزَنَّدْ The horse has a nostril which was not made narrow when he was created.
3 [He straitened, or scanted; made strait, or scanty: see the pass. part. n. Hence, app.,] زنّد عَلَى أَهْلِهِ [He straitened, or scanted, his family; made their circumstances, or subsistence, strait, or scanty, to them;] he was hard, severe, or rigorous, to his family.
4 He punished beyond his right.
5 He charged with niggardliness: or he, or it, made, or rendered, niggardly, mean, or sordid.
6 زُنِّدَتِ النَّاقَةُ, Verbal.Noun تَزْنِيدٌ, The she-camel, having a [tumour of the kind called] قَرْن in her vulva, had her vulva perforated on every side, and leathern thongs inserted in the holes and tied tight: or تَزْنِيدٌ [as Verbal.Noun of زُنِّدَتْ] signifies a she-camel's having the vulva perforated with small sharp-pointed pieces of wood, and then tied with [threads or strings of] hair: this is done when her womb comes forth after her having given birth; on the authority of IDrd, with ن and ى.
def.4 See also the next paragraph.
def.2 He lied.
def.3 He filled a water-skin, or milk-skin; as also , Verbal.Noun زَنْدٌ; and in like manner a watering-trough, and a vessel: and he filled his water-skin, or milk-skin, so that it became like the زَنْد, i. e. [hard, or firm, being] full.
2 [He made, or rendered, narrow. You say,] لِلْفَرَسِ مَنْخِرٌ لَمْ يُزَنَّدْ The horse has a nostril which was not made narrow when he was created.
3 [He straitened, or scanted; made strait, or scanty: see the pass. part. n. Hence, app.,] زنّد عَلَى أَهْلِهِ [He straitened, or scanted, his family; made their circumstances, or subsistence, strait, or scanty, to them;] he was hard, severe, or rigorous, to his family.
4 He punished beyond his right.
5 He charged with niggardliness: or he, or it, made, or rendered, niggardly, mean, or sordid.
6 زُنِّدَتِ النَّاقَةُ, Verbal.Noun تَزْنِيدٌ, The she-camel, having a [tumour of the kind called] قَرْن in her vulva, had her vulva perforated on every side, and leathern thongs inserted in the holes and tied tight: or تَزْنِيدٌ [as Verbal.Noun of زُنِّدَتْ] signifies a she-camel's having the vulva perforated with small sharp-pointed pieces of wood, and then tied with [threads or strings of] hair: this is done when her womb comes forth after her having given birth; on the authority of IDrd, with ن and ى.
def.4 See also the next paragraph.
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