زَنَى
Root: زنى
Form: 1
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زَنَىI
, Present.T يَزْنِى, Verbal.Noun زِنًى [often written زِنًا] and زِنَآءٌ, the latter an Verbal.Noun of 3 also, but said by some to be a dial. var. of the former, the former being of the dial. of the people of El-Hijáz, and the latter of the dial. of Benoo-Temeem, or of the people of Nejd, He committed fornication or adultery; بِهَا
with her: but accord. to El-Munáwee, [it seems to be properly a dial. var. of زَنَأَ as meaning he mounted; for he says that,] in the proper language of the Arabs, الزِّنَا signifies the mounting upon a thing; and in the language of the law it signifies the commission of the act first mentioned above: it is [thus] syn. with فَجَرَ: and in like manner one says of a woman [زَنَتْ]:
زنّى , Verbal.Noun تَزْنِيَةٌ, also signifies the same: and so does
, Verbal.Noun مُزَانَاةٌ and زِنَآءٌ: one says of a woman, , Verbal.Noun مُزَانَاةٌ and زِنَآءٌ, meaning تُبَاغِى [i. e. She commits fornication or adultery; or prostitutes herself]. It is said in a prov., لَا حُصْنُهَا حُصْنٌ وَلَا الزِّنَآءُ زِنَآءٌ [Her continence is not continence, nor the fornication, or adultery, that she commits, fornication, or adultery]: applied to him who does not remain in one state, or condition; neither in good nor in evil: or to him who refrains from doing good and then is excessive [therein], or from evil and then is excessive therein; not continuing to pursue one way. [See also زَنْيَةٌ.]
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