زون

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to idols, false deities, and places where they are kept or worshipped. It also extends to meanings of shortness, adornment, and undesirable elements in food, with some less common or classical usages.

Derived headwords

الزُّونnoun

1.
idolclassical
An idol, or anything taken as a deity and worshipped instead of God.

الزُّونnoun

1.
place of idolsclassical
A place where idols are gathered, set up, and adorned.

الزُّونnoun

1.
short personboth
A short man.

زُونَةnoun

1.
short womanboth
A short woman.

الزَّوَانnoun

1.
chaffboth
What emerges from food and is discarded; the inferior part of it.

الزُّوَانnoun

1.
weed in grainboth
A type of grain that mixes with wheat; it is considered inferior.

الزُّونَةnoun

1.
adornmentclassical
Adornment or decoration, according to some languages.

الزُّونَةnoun

1.
sensible womanclassical
A sensible or intelligent woman.

الزَّانnoun

1.
indigestionclassical
Indigestion or a feeling of fullness.

زُوَينname

1.
a male given nameboth
A name of a jurist from Alexandria.

مَزُونadjective

1.
containing chaffboth
Food that contains chaff or inferior grain.

تَزُونُونَاverb

1.
to adorn usboth
To make us beautiful or adorn us.

الزُّونْزَىnoun

1.
short personclassical
A short person.

الزُّونْكnoun

1.
conceited personclassical
A conceited or arrogant person.

Parallel reading

الزون، بالضم: الصنم وما يتخذ إلها ويعبد من دون اللها كالزور

Az-zun, with damma: the idol and what is taken as a deity and worshipped instead of God, like falsehood.

يمشي بها البقر الموشي أكرهمشي الهرابذ تبغي بيعة الزون

The speckled cows walk with them, like the pacing of the governors seeking the sale of idols.

وهو بالفارسية: زون، بشم الزاي والسين

And it is in Persian: zun, with the pronunciation of the zay and the sin.

ذات المجوس عكفت للزون

The Zoroastrian woman devoted herself to the idol.

الزون، الرجل القصير، ويفتح، والفتح أعرف

Az-zun: the short man, and with fatha, and the fatha pronunciation is more known.

الزون: الموضع تجمع الأصنام فيه وتنصب وتزين

Az-zun: the place where idols are gathered, set up, and adorned.

وهنانة كالزون يجلى صنمه

And Hananah, like the idol, displays its idol.

قيل: أصله من الزينة

It is said: its origin is from adornment.

الزون، كخدب: القصير، وهي زونة، بهاء

Az-zun, like khaddab: the short one, and she is zunah, with ta marbuta.

والزوان، مثلثة: الزؤان، وهو ما يخرج من الطعام فيرمى به، وهو الرديء منه

And az-zuwan, with three possible vowelizations: az-zu'an, which is what comes out of food and is thrown away, and it is the inferior part of it.

الزوان، بالكسر: حب يخالط البر، والزوان مثله

Az-zuwan, with kasra: a grain that mixes with wheat, and az-zuwan is similar.

الزونة، بالضم: الزينة في بعض اللغات

Az-zunah, with damma: adornment in some languages.

الزونة: المرأة العاقلة؛ عن ابن الأعرابي

Az-zunah: the sensible woman; from Ibn al-A'rabi.

الزان: البشم

Az-zan: indigestion.

الزان: التخمة

Az-zan: the feeling of fullness.

مصحح ليس يشكو الزان خثلته ولا يخاف على أمعائه العرب

Corrected: He does not complain of indigestion's weakness, nor does he fear for his intestines, the Arabs.

زوين، كزبير: فقيه إسكندراني

Zuwain, like Zubair: an Alexandrian jurist.

طعام مزون: فيه زوان

Muzawwan food: it contains chaff.

إنك لتزوننا إذا طلعت، قال: أي تزيننا

You adorn us when you appear, he said: meaning, you make us beautiful.

الزونزى: القصير

Az-zunza: the short person.

الزونك: المختال

Az-zonk: the conceited one.