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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ZNY زني 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ZNY 
“root” 
▪ ZNY_1 ‘to fornicate, (to commit) adultery’ ↗zanà

Other values, now obsolete:
  • †ZNY_2 ‘to be(come) strait, tight, narrow; (D-stem:) to oppress’: Lane

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘1 to fornicate, (to commit) adultery. – 2 to be in a tight place, (of s.th.) be narrow’ 
▪ ZNY_1 : from WSem *ZNY ‘to fornicate, (to commit) adultery’.
▪ ZNY_2 : etymology obscure; properly ZNW, not ZNY! 
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▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZNW/Y-1 [only Akk]. –2 Ar zanā (ZNW) ‘être resserré, étroit’. –3 Hbr zānāh, JP zənā, Mand zna, Ar zanà (ZNY), Mhr zənū, Jib zini, Ḥrs zenō, Gz zanaya, Te Amh zänna ‘commettre l’adulterie, forniquer’, Syr zanī ‘être débauché, déshonorer’, Gz zanawa ‘être sale, impur’; Hbr zonāh, Palm znytʔ, nSyr zanītā ‘prostituée’. – Outside Sem: Af sannaw , Sa zanaw ‘forniquer’. [-4 -5 -6 no represented in Ar.] 
See section CONCISE, above. 
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zanà, zanay‑ زَنَى / زَنَيْـ , i (zinan , det. zinà or zinā ; zināʔ) 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ZNY 
vb., I 
to commit adultery, fornicate, whore – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ From WSem *ZNY ‘to fornicate, (to commit) adultery’.
 
▪ eC7 Q zanà (to commit adultery, fornicate) 60:12 yā-ʔayyu-hā ’l-nabiyyu ʔiḏā ǧāʔa-ka ’l-muʔminātu yubāyiʕna-ka ʕalà ʔan lā yušrikna bi-’llāhi šayʔan wa-lā yasriqna wa-lā yaznīna▪ … ‘Prophet, when believing women com to pledge to you that they will not ascribe God any partner, nor steal, nor commit adultery▪ …’. – zinā (adultery, fornication) 17:32 wa-lā taqrabū ’l-zinā ʔinna-hū kāna fāḥišatan wa-sāʔa sabīlan ‘and do not go near fornication—it is an abomination, and an evil path [to take]’. – zānī (fornicator, adulterer) 24:3 al-zānī lā yankiḥu ʔillā zāniyatan ʔaw mušrikatan ‘the fornicating male/adulterer is only [fit to] marry [also: only fornicates with] a fornicating female/adulteress or an idolatress’. 
▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZNW/Y-3: Hbr zānāh, JP zənā, Mand zna, Ar zanà (ZNY), Mhr zənū, Jib zini, Ḥrs zenō, Gz zanaya, Te Amh zänna ‘commettre l’adulterie, forniquer’, Syr zanī ‘être débauché, déshonorer’, Gz zanawa ‘être sale, impur’; Hbr zonāh, Palm znytʔ, nSyr zanītā ‘prostituée’. – Outside Sem: Af sannaw , Sa zanaw ‘forniquer’.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012: (as DRS above, adding:) perhaps also Ug dnt ‘adultery, fornication’, with WSem *ḏ‑ > Ug d‑ under the influence of WSem *ḎMː ‘to blame, reprove; dispise, disgrace’ (cf. Ar ↗ḏamma)? 
▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZNW/Y-3: The Af Sa forms are borrowed from Ar.
▪ Tropper2008#dnt, Dolgopolsky2012#2739: WSem *ZNY ‘to fornicate, (to commit) adultery’.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012#2739: from Nostr *ʒûw˅n˅‑ ‘to copulate’, (?) ‘membrum virile’. 
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► zinan, det. zinà, n., adultery; fornication: vn. I.
► zināʔ, n., adultery; fornication: vn. I.
► zānin, det. zānī, pl. zunāẗ, n., fornicator, adulterer: PA I.
► zāniyaẗ, pl. zawānin, det. zawānī, n., whore, harlot; adulteress: PA I, f. 
zinaⁿ زِنًى , det. zinà 
ID 368 • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ZNY 
n. 
adultery; fornication – WehrCowan1979. 
vn. of ↗zanà ‘to fornicate, (to commit) adultery’, from WSem *ZNY ‘id.’. 
▪ eC7 (adultery, fornication) Q 17:32 wa-lā taqrabū ’l-zinā ʔinna-hū kāna fāḥišatan wa-sāʔa sabīlan ‘and do not go near fornication—it is an abomination, and an evil path [to take]’. – Cf. also ↗zanà. 
Cf. ↗zanà. 
Cf. ↗zanà. 
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Cf. ↗zanà. 
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