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زَان

zaan

zaAnK * act. part. n. of zanaY : [signifying Committing fornication or adultery: and also a fornicator or an adulterer: ] (Msb:) fem. zaAniyapN : (Kur xxiv. 2 and 3:) pl. masc. zunaApN , like quDaApN pl. of qaADK : (Msb:) [and pl. fem. zawaAnK .] yaA zaAniY said to a woman is correct as being [for y

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What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

1. زَانٍ

zaAnK * act. part. n. of zanaY : [signifying Committing fornication or adultery: and also a fornicator or an adulterer: ] (Msb:) fem. zaAniyapN : (Kur xxiv. 2 and 3:) pl. masc. zunaApN , like quDaApN pl. of qaADK : (Msb:) [and pl. fem. zawaAnK .] yaA zaAniY said to a woman is correct as being [for yaA zaAniyapu , O fornicatress, or adulteress, ] apocopated. (Mgh.)

2. زَانٌ

zaAnN * Indigestion; syn. ba$amN ; for Aln~a$amu in the copies of the K is a mistranscription for Alba$amu ; (TA;) expl. by Ed-Dubeyreeyeh as syn. with tuxomapN ; as in the phrase, layosa ya$okuw Alz~aAna [ He does not complain of indigestion ]: (Fr, TA:) and so ↓ zaAnapN : (K and TA in art. zyn :) or this signifies a single fit of indigestion. (TA in that art.) -A2- [In the present day, applied to The beech-tree; and its wood: as a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with p : see also zaAnapN below.]

In the wild

Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.