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زنق
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaزَنَقَةٌ ذ A narrow سِكَّة [or street ]. (S.) ― -b2- A narrow part of a valley. (JK, Ibn-' Abbád, O.) ― -b3- 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.)
Derived headwords
زَنَقَةٌ
- 1.
فِى عُرْقُوبِ وَادٍ