Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

زَرْجَنَةٌ (as an inf. n. TḲ) i. q. تَخَارُجٌ [q. v.]: (Ḳ) one says, زَرْجَنُوا, meaning تَخَارَجُوا. (TḲ.)

And The being deceitful, wicked, dishonest, or dissimulating, and mischief-making; or very deceitful, &c.: and the act of deceiving, deluding, beguiling, circumventing, or outwitting: (Ḳ:) one says, زَرْجَنَهُ, meaning He deceived him, deluded him,, &c. (TḲ.)

زَرَجُونٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) which is also written زُرْجُونٌ, like عُصْفُورٌ, is mentioned in art. زرج and also in the present art. by the author of the Ḳ, though he charges J with error in mentioning it in this art. because مُزَرَّجٌ is used by a rájiz as meaning “intoxicated:” whereas J is not in error, but is right, in doing thus; for the ن is radical accord. to the generality of the lexicologists and the authors on inflection, like the س in قَرَبُوسٌ; and the rájiz above referred to elided the ن in forming مُزَرَّجٌ because he imagined it to be augmentative: (MF in art. زرج:) it signifies Wine; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) and is a Pers. word, (Aṣ, Sh, Seer, Ṣ,) originally زركون, [i. e. زَرْگُونْ,] (Sh, TA,) meaning “goldcoloured:” (Aṣ, Sh, Seer, Ṣ:) or it signifies, (Ṣ, Mgh,) or signifies also [like as does عِنَبٌ, of which the primary signification is “grapes”], (Ḳ,) the grape-vine; (ISh, Ṣ, Mgh, Ḳ;) n. un. with ة {زَرَجُونَةٌ}; (ISh, TA;) and pl. زَرَاجِينُ: (Mgh:) it has this meaning in the dial. of Et-Táïf: (ISh, TA in art. زرج:) or the shoots of a grape-vine: (Mgh, Ḳ:) thus in the dial. of Et-Táïf and El-Ghowr: (TA in the present art.:) or a shoot that is planted, of a grape-vine. (AḤn, TA.)

Also A certain red dye. (El-Jarmee, Ṣ, Ḳ.)

And Water that remains or stagnates, or collects, or remains long and becomes altered, or becomes yellow and altered, in a rock: (Ḳ in art. زرج:) or clear water that remains or stagnates,, &c., in a mountain. (MF, TA.)