زِّنَىٰ

zaniY~N * Strait, or narrow; (K;) as also ↓ zanaA='N : (TA in art. znA^ from the Fáïk; and in art. zn :) the former mentioned in this sense by IAar; (TA;) applied to a bag, or other receptacle. (K, TA.) [See also zaniYo'N , in art. znA^ .]

1 zanaY * , aor. yazoniY , inf. n. zinFY [often written zinFA ] and zinaA='N , (S, Mgh, * Msb, K,) the latter an inf. n. of 3 (S, Mgh, Msb, K) also, (S, Mgh, K,) but said by some to be a dial. var. of the former, (Msb,) the former being of the dial. of the people of El-Hijáz, (Lh, S, Msb, TA,) and the latter of the dial. of Benoo-Temeem, (Lh, TA,) or of the people of Nejd, (S, Msb, TA,) He committed fornication or adultery; (El-Munáwee, Er-Rághib, TA;) bihaA with her: (MA:) but accord. to El-Munáwee, [it seems to be properly a dial. var. of zanaA^a as meaning he mounted; for he says that,] in the proper language of the Arabs, Alz~inaA signifies the mounting upon a thing; and in the language of the law it signifies the commission of the act first mentioned above: it is [thus] syn. with fajara : and in like manner one says of a woman [ zanato ]: (TA:) ↓ zn~Y , inf. n. tazoniyapN , also signifies the same: (TA:) and so does ↓ zAnY , inf. n. muzaAnaApN and zinaA='N : (K:) one says of a woman, ↓ tuzaAniY , inf. n. muzaAnaApN and zinaA='N , meaning tubaAgiY [i. e. She commits fornication or adultery; or prostitutes herself ]. (S.) It is said in a prov., laA HuSonuhaA HuSonN walaA Alz~inaA='u zinaA='N [ Her continence is not continence, nor the fornication, or adultery, that she commits, fornication, or adultery ]: applied to him who does not remain in one state, or condition; neither in good nor in evil: (Meyd:) or to him who refrains from doing good and then is excessive [therein], or from evil and then is excessive therein; not continuing to pursue one way. (TA.) [See also zanoyapN .]