ضَنك

1 Danuka * , aor. Danuka , inf. n. DanokN and DanaAkapN and DunuwkapN , (O, K,) the first and third of these, (O,) or the first and second, (TA,) accord. to IDrd, used in relation to a place, and the second and third in relation to life, or sustenance, or means of subsistence, (O, TA,) It was, or became, narrow, or strait. (O, K, TA.) ― -b2- And Danuka said of a man, inf. n. DanaAkapN , He was, or became, weak in his judgment, and in his body, and in his soul, and in his intellect. (K.) ― -b3- And Danuka Als~aHaAbu The clouds became thick, collected together, and dense. (O, TA.) -A2- Dunika , like EuniYa , He was, or became, affected with a coryza, or defluxion from the head and nose. (K.)

DanokN * an inf. n. of Danuka : (O, K:) its primary signification is Narrowness, or straitness, and hardship. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) ― -b2- And Narrow, or strait; syn. Day~iqN ; (S, M, O, K; [in the CK, and in a copy of the S, Diyq , which is also a correct explanation, as shown above; but not what is here meant, as appears from what follows;]) applied to anything, (M, K,) masc. and fem., (M, K, and Bd in xx. 123,) being an inf. n. used as an epithet. (Bd ibid.) [Like the Pers. tanoG .] One says makaAnN DanokN A narrow, or strait, place. (IDrd, O, TA.) And Eayo$N DanokN A strait life; or strait sustenance, or means of subsistence; (IDrd, O, TA;) as also ↓ Eayo$N DaniykN : (AA, O, K, TA:) and thus maEiy$apF DanokFA in the Kur xx. 123; where some read ↓ DanokaY , like sakoraY : (Bd:) or this means such as is unlawful; (O, TA;) every life that is unlawful being termed DanokN , accord. to Lth, even though it be ample: (O, TA: *) Aboo-Is-hák thinks it to mean [ subsistence ] in the fire of Hell: but says that most explain this phrase in the Kur as meaning the punishment of the grave: (TA:) thus it means accord. to Ibn-Mes'ood: (O:) or, accord. to Katádeh, Hell: (O, TA:) or, accord. to Ed-Dahhák, forbidden gain: (TA:) or, as some say, AlD~ariyEu [q. v.], and Alz~ak~uwmu [q. v.]. (Bd.)