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زند

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 زنّد ذ , inf. n. تَزْنِيدٌ, He made his زَنْد to produce fire. (K.) -A2- He lied. (K.) -A3- He filled (K, TA) a water-skin, or milk-skin; (TA;) as also ↓ زَنَدَ, (K, TA,) inf. n. زَنْدٌ; and in like manner a watering-trough, and a vessel: and he filled his water-skin, or milk-skin, so that it became like the زَنْد, i. e. [ hard, or firm, being ] full. (TA.) ― -b2- [ He made, or rendered, narrow. You say,] لِلْفَرَسِ مَنْخِرٌ لَمْ يُزَنَّدْ The horse has a nostril which was not made narrow when he was created. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [ He straitened, or scanted; made strait, or scanty: see the pass. part. n. Hence, app.,] زنّد عَلَى أَهْلِهِ [ He straitened, or scanted, his family; made their circumstances, or subsistence, strait, or scanty, to them; ] he was hard, severe, or rigorous, to his family. (L.) ― -b4- He punished beyond his right. (K, TA.) ― -b5- He charged with niggardliness: (TA:) or he, or it, made, or rendered, niggardly, mean, or sordid. (KL.) ― -b6- زُنِّدَتِ النَّاقَةُ, inf. n. تَزْنِيدٌ, The she-camel, having a [tumour of the kind called] قَرْن in her vulva, had her vulva perforated on every side, and leathern thongs inserted in the holes and tied tight: (ISh, TA:) or تَزْنِيدٌ [as inf. n. of زُنِّدَتْ] signifies a she-camel's having the vulva perforated with small sharp-pointed pieces of wood, and then tied with [ threads or strings of ] hair: this is done when her womb comes forth after her having given birth; (S, K;) on the authority of IDrd, with ن and ى. (S.) -A4- See also the next paragraph.

Derived headwords

زنّدverb
  1. 1.
لِلْفَرَسِ مَنْخِرٌ لَمْ يُزَنَّدْ
زنّد عَلَى أَهْلِهِ
زُنِّدَتِ النَّاقَةُ