Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

زَنَرَهُ He filled it; (Ḳ;) namely, a vessel, and a water-skin. (TA.)

See also what next follows {2}.

زنّرهُ; (Mṣb;) orزَنَرَهُ↓, (Ḳ,) inf. n. زَنْرٌ; (TA;) [but the former is more probably correct, as تزنّر, mentioned below, is its quasi-pass.; or perhaps each is correct;] He put upon him a زُنَّار [or waist-belt]. (Mṣb, Ḳ.)

زنّر عَيْنَهُ إِلَىَّ † He looked hard at me: so in the “Nawádir:” (TA: [see also the act. part. n., below:]) or زنّر إِلَىَّ بِعَيْنِهِ ‡ [he looked minutely at me]: and زَنَّرَتْ عَيْنُهُ ‡ his eye looked minutely. (A.)

تزّنر He (a Christian [or Jew or Sabian or Magian]) bound a زُنَّار [or waist-belt] upon his waist. (A, Mṣb.)

‡ It (a thing) became slender, or narrow, (A, Ḳ,) so as to be like a زُنَّار. (A.)

زُنَّار (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) andزُنَّارَةٌ↓ (A, Ḳ) andزُنَّيْرٌ↓ (Ḳ) The thing [meaning waist-belt] that is upon the waist of the Christian (Ṣ,* A,* Mṣb,*K) and Magian; (Ḳ;) the thing which the ذِمِّىّ [or free non-Muslim subject of a Muslim government, who pays a poll-tax for his freedom and toleration, i. e., Christian, Jew, or Sabian,] binds upon his waist: (T, TA:) [accord. to the Ḳ, from تَزَنَّرَ “it became slender, or narrow:” but the reverse is implied in the A: see 5: and it is more probably derived from the Greek ζωνάρη, as observed by Golius, or ζωνάριον, as suggested by Freytag:] pl. زَنَانِيرُ. (A, Mṣb.)

See also زِنِّيرٌ.

زِنِّيرٌ, (T, TA,) orزِنِّيرَةٌ↓, as alsoزُنَّارَةٌ↓, (TA,) sing. of زَنَانِيرُ, (T, TA,) which signifies Pebbles: (IAạr:) or small pebbles. (AʼObeyd, Kr, ISd, Ḳ.)

Also زِنِّيرٌ andزُنَّارٌ↓ (Kr,) orزِنِّيرَةٌ↓ andزُنَّارَةٌ↓, (TA,) Certain small flies (Kr, Ḳ) that are in حُشُوش [i. e. gardens, or privies]. (Kr, TA.)

مُزَنَّرَةٌ A woman tall, and large in body. (Ḳ, TA.)

فُلَانٌ مُزَنِّرٌ إِلَىَ بِعَيْنِهِ † Such a one is looking hard at me, and making the eye to project: so in the “Nawadir.” (T, TA. [See also the verb, 2.])