Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

زَنَقَهُ, (JK, Ṣ, O, Ḳ,) namely, a mule, (JK, O,) or a horse, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَزْنِقُ}, (O, TA,) inf. n. زَنْقٌ, (JK, TA,) He put a ring in the thin skin beneath the part under his lower jaw, and then attached to it a cord: (JK, O, Ḳ:) this ring is put to the head of the refractory mule; and is called زِنَاقَةٌ↓: (JK, O, TA:) or he put a زِنَاق↓ in the part under his lower jaw, in the skin: (Ṣ, O:) every cord with which a beast is tied, [attached to a ring or otherwise] in the skin beneath the part under the lower jaw, is called زِنَاقٌ↓ [orزِنَاقَةٌ↓]: (O, TA:) in the Ḳ, زُنَاقٌ, like غُرَابٌ; but this is wrong: (TA:) what is in the nose, pierced, is called عِرَانٌ. (O, TA.)

Also, (IDrd, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَزْنِقُ} and ـُ {يَزْنُقُ}, (TA,) inf. n. as above, (KL,) He bound his legs by means of the شِكَال [or زِنَاق, q. v.]; namely, a mule's; (IDrd, Ḳ;) and in like manner, a horse'. (TA.) [This meaning alone I find in the KL, given on the authority of the Mj: but Golius says, as on the authority of the KL likewise, that it signifies also He fitted a shoe to a horse's foot; followed by an accus.]

And زَنَقَ, (IAạr, O,) or زَنَقَ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ, aor. ـِ {يَزْنِقُ}; (Ḳ;) andازنق↓; andزنّق↓, (IAạr, O, Ḳ,) inf. n. تَزْنِيقٌ; (IAạr, O;) † He straitened his household, by reason of niggardliness or poverty. (IAạr, O, Ḳ.) And زَنَقْتُ عَلَى فُلَانٍ, andأَزْنَقْتُ↓, I straitened such a one. (JK.)

زَنَقٌ The place of the زِنَاقٌ [or زِنَاقَة]. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

The thin part of an arrow-head: pl. زُنُوقٌ. (JK, Ibn-ʼAbbád, Ḳ.)

زَنَقَةٌ A narrow سِكَّة [or street]. (Ṣ.)

A narrow part of a valley. (JK, Ibn-ʼAbbád, O.)

A bend in a wall; or in a سِكَّة [or street]; (Lth, JK, O;) or in a side of a house; or in a narrow, or very narrow, road of a valley, [so I render فِى عُرْقُوبِ وَادٍ, (see عُرْقُوبٌ,)] in which is what resembles a place of entrance and a twisting or winding: a subst. in all these senses, having no verb. (Lth, O.)

زِنَاقٌ: see 1, in two places.

Also i. q. شِكَالٌ [i. e. Hobbles for a horse or the like, having a rope extending from the shackles of the fore feet to those of the hind feet]. (TA.)

And The kind of ornament called مِخْنَقَةٌ [i. e. a necklace, or the like]; (Ṣ, O, Ḳ; [in this sense correctly said in the Ḳ to be like كِتَابٌ;]) a certain ornament for women, (JK, Ibn-ʼAbbád, O,) of silver. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O.)

زَنِيقٌ [in its primary acceptation is app. syn. with مَزْنُوقٌ in the first of the senses assigned to the latter below:]

[and hence,] ‡ Firm, strong, or sound; (JK, O, Ḳ, TA;) applied to judgment, or an opinion, (JK, O, TA,) and an affair, and management, or exercise of forecast or forethought. (TA.) Andزُنُقٌ↓ [which is app. its pl., or عُقُولٌ زُنُقٌ,] † Perfect understandings or intellects. (IAạr, O, Ḳ.)

مَزْنُوقٌ Tied, or bound, with the زِنَاق [q. v., or with the زِنَاقَة]. (TA. [See also زَنِيقٌ.])

And † Suffering a suppression of the urine. (TA.)

المَزْنُوقُ is the name of A horse of ' Ámir Ibn-Et-Tufeyl: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) and of a horse of 'Attáb Ibn-El-Warkà. (TA.)