Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

زُونٌ

Root: زون

Full Definition

زُونٌ An idol: and anything that is taken as a deity and worshipped, beside God: as also زُورٌ: [an arabicized word:] in Pers. ژُونْ.
2 And A place in which idols are collected and set up. It is said to be from زِينَةٌ. [But it may rather be from زُونَةٌ as a dial. var. of زِينَةٌ.]

def.2 See also زِوَنٌّ.


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