زنى

[often written زِنًا] and زِنَآءٌ. The latter is also a maṣdar of form 3, but some say it is a dialectal variant of the former; the former belongs to the dialect of the people of El-Hijáz, the latter to that of Benoo-Temeem, or of the people of Nejd.

El-Munáwee gives this meaning; but according to him [it seems to be properly a dialectal variant of زَنَأَ in the sense of he mounted, for he says that,] in the proper speech of the Arabs الزِّنَا means mounting upon a thing, while in the language of the law it means the act just mentioned.

It is [thus] synonymous with فَجَرَ; and of a woman one says likewise [زَنَتْ].

Maṣdar تَزْنِيَةٌ.

Maṣdar مُزَانَاةٌ and زِنَآءٌ.

Maṣdar مُزَانَاةٌ and زِنَآءٌ, meaning تُبَاغِى [that is, she commits fornication or adultery, or she prostitutes herself].

A proverb, applied to one who does not stay in a single state, neither in good nor in evil. Meyd: or to one who refrains from doing good and then goes to excess in it, or refrains from evil and then goes to excess in that, not keeping to one way. [See also زَنْيَةٌ.]

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Or he imputed الزِّنَا [fornication or adultery] to him; and so زاناهُ according to the copies of the K, but in the M ازناهُ, which is said there not to have been heard except in a tradition of the daughter of El-Ḥasan.

See also form 1.

And see form 2 in art. زنو.

[He committed fornication or adultery with her.] Maṣdar مُزَانَاةٌ and زِنَآءٌ.

And see form 2.

See form 2.

Often written زِنًا. See the next entry, in two places.

A single act of الزِّنَى [that is, fornication or adultery].

زِنًى is used in the same sense, though it is properly a maṣdar and not an ism waḥda, as is shown by its being dualized.

They say زِنَيَانِ, but this is post-classical.

Using the dual of زِنًى, the lawyers say this.

This is the dual of زِنَآءٌ, properly a maṣdar like زِنًى; another form is زِنَيَيْنِ.

Here, and in the saying before it, the right word is زَنْيَتَيْنِ.

Sometimes زِنْيَةٍ is said, but the first is the more chaste; the meaning is ٱبْنُ زِنًى.

Or one says هُوَ وَلَدُ زَنْيَةٍ, زِنْيَةٍ, لِزَنْيَةٍ [هُوَ], and لِزِنْيَةٍ, with fetḥ or with kesr, [meaning as above, or وُلِدَ لِزَنْيَةٍ, he is, or was, born of fornication or adultery,] the opposite of وَلَدُ رِشْدَةٍ and لِرِشْدَةٍ, or the opposite of هُوَ لِرِشْدَةٍ.

Also لِزَنْيَةٍ; the opposite of لِرِشْدَةٍ and لِرَشْدَةٍ.

Fr: one says هُوَ لِغَيِّةٍ, لِزَنْيَةٍ, and لِغَيْرِ رَشْدَةٍ, [all meaning the same, and] all with fetḥ.

Ks, however, allows زِنْيَة and رِشْدَة with kesr, but غَيَّة only with fetḥ.

ISk says that زنية and غيّة are used both with kesr and with fetḥ.

[By analogy it means a mode, or manner, of fornication or adultery.] See the preceding entry, in five places.

Also the last of a man's children, as فِجْرَةٌ means the last of a woman's children.

[Properly a maṣdar, but with a dual assigned to it.] For an instance of its dual see زَنْيَةٌ.

[Meaning of, or relating to, fornication or adultery:] the relative noun from زِنًى, the [radical] ى being changed into و because three ى s are held hard to pronounce.

The relative noun from زِنَآءٌ [with the same meaning] is زِنَآئِىٌّ.

See the preceding entry.

A name given to a female ape.

Ism fāʿil of زَنَى: [committing fornication or adultery; and also a fornicator or an adulterer.]

Feminine زَانِيَةٌ (Kur 24:2 and 3). Plural masculine زُنَاةٌ, like قُضَاةٌ, plural of قَاضٍ; [plural feminine زَوَانٍ.]

يَا زَانِى, said to a woman, is correct, being apocopated [for يَا زَانِيَةُ, O fornicatress, or adulteress].

Feminine of زَانٍ.