زنق

1 زَنَقَهُ ذ , (JK, S, O, K,) namely, a mule, (JK, O,) or a horse, (S, K,) aor. زَنِقَ , (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, K:) 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: (S, 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 [or ↓ زِنَاقَةٌ]: (O, TA:) in the K, زُنَاقٌ, like غُرَابٌ; but this is wrong: (TA:) what is in the nose, pierced, is called عِرَانٌ. (O, TA.) ― -b2- Also, (IDrd, K,) aor. زَنِقَ and زَنُقَ , (TA,) inf. n. as above, (KL,) He bound his legs by means of the شِكَال [or زِنَاق, q. v.]; namely, a mule's; (IDrd, K;) 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.] ― -b3- And زَنَقَ, (IAar, O,) or زَنَقَ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ, aor. زَنِقَ ; (K;) and ↓ ازنق; and ↓ زنّق, (IAar, O, K,) inf. n. تَزْنِيقٌ; (IAar, O;) (assumed tropical:) He straitened his household, by reason of niggardliness or poverty. (IAar, O, K.) And زَنَقْتُ عَلَى فُلَانٍ, and ↓ أَزْنَقْتُ, I straitened such a one. (JK.)