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زرنق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

زَرْنَقَةٌ ذ inf. n. of زَرْنَقَ. (TK. [See Q. 1, above.]) -A2- Also i. q. عِينَةٌ; (IAar, JK, Mgh, K;) i. e. The buying of a thing from a man on credit, for more than its [ current ] price: (JK, Fáïk:) or the doing thus, and then selling it to him, or to another, for less than the price for which it was purchased. (TA.) ― -b2- And Increase, excess, or addition; syn. زِيَادَةٌ. (K.) [For زَرْنَقَةٌ in this and the following senses, Freytag, in his Lex., has written زَرْنَق.] ― -b3- And Debt. (K, TA. [In the CK, الدِّينُ is erroneously put for الدَّيْنُ: and it is there added, “ as though arabicized from زَرْنَهْ; i. e. الذَّهَبَ لَبِسَ: ” but what this should be I know not, unless it be a mistranscription for الذَّهَبُ لَيْسَ; for, in Pers., زَرْ means “ gold, ” and نَهْ is a negative.]) -A3- Also Perfect, or consummate, beauty. (K.)

Derived headwords

زَرْنَقَةٌ
  1. 1.
الذَّهَبَ لَبِسَ
الذَّهَبُ لَيْسَ