زَنجَبِيل

zanojabiylN * [ Ginger; amomum zinziber; ] a certain plant growing in the country of the Arabs, in the land of 'Omán, (AHn, TA,) and in El-Yemen also; (TA;) well known: (S:) [or the root thereof; ] a certain root, or roots, (accord. to different copies of the K,) creeping beneath the ground; (K, TA;) burning, or biting, to the tongue; (TA;) growing like the stalks of the papyrus, (K, TA,) and the raAsan [mentioned below]: there is no wild sort of it; nor is it a tree that is eaten fresh like as herbs, or leguminous plants, are eaten; but it is used in a dry state; and its conserve is the best of conserves; and the best thereof is what is brought from the country of the Zinj and China: (TA:) it has a property that is heating, or warming, digestive, lenitive in a small degree, strengthening to the venereal faculty, (K, TA,) clearing to the phlegm, (TA,) sharpening to the intellect, (K * TA,) and exhilarating: (TA:) if mixed with the moisture of the liver of the goat, and dried, and pulverized, and used as a collyrium, it removes the film [ upon the eye ], and obscurity of the sight. (K, TA.) ― -b2- It is mentioned in the Kur, where it is said, [lxxvi. 17 and 18,] kaAna mizaAjuhaA zanojabiylFA EayonFA fiyhaA tusam~aY salosabiylFA [ The admixture whereof shall be znjbyl , a fountain therein named Selsebeel ]: i. e. it shall have the flavour of znjbyl [or ginger], which the Arabs esteem very pleasant: it may mean that znjbyl is [essentially] in the wine of Paradise: or that it is the admixture thereof: or that it is a name for the fountain whence this wine is taken, and which is named Selsebeel also. (Az, O, TA.) As some assert, (ISd, TA,) it means also Wine [absolutely]. (S, ISd, K.) ― -b3- zanojabiylu AlkilaAbi A certain herb, or leguminous plant, the leaves of which are like [ those of ] the xilaAf [or salix Aegyptia ], and the twigs are red: it clears the [ discoloration of the face termed ] kalaf , and the [ spots in the skin termed ] nama$ ; and it kills dogs; (K;) wherefore it is named in relation to them. (TA.) ― -b4- zanojabiylu AlEajami i. q. AlA^u$oturogaAzu [a word of Persian origin, now applied by Arabs to A species of carline thistle ]. (K.) [Accord. to Freytag, Horminum, or salvia silvestris: but this, I believe, is what is called in Pers. A^u$oturogaAn .] ― -b5- zanojabiylu Al$~aAmi i. q. Alr~aAsanu [ Inula helenium, common inula, or elecampane ]. (K.)