زنج

زَنِجَ(n. ac. زَنَج)
a. Was thirsty.

زَاْنَجَa. Recompensed, requited.

زَنْج
زِنْج
(pl.
زُنُوْج)
a. Ethiopian.

زَنْجَبِيْل
P.
a. Ginger.
b. Wine.

زنج

الزَّنْجُ and الزِّنْجُ, (AA, S, Msb, K,) the latter being a dial. var. of the former, (Msb,) both of them chaste, (TA,) [but the latter is the more common,] and ↓ الزُّنُوجُ (S, K) and ↓ المَزْنَجَةُ, (K,) A certain nation of the blacks; (S, Msb, K;) [the inhabitants of the country called by us “ Zanguebar,” including the “ Zingis ” of Ptolemy, near the entrance of the Red Sea, and a large portion of inner Africa:] their country is beneath, and to the south of, the equinoctial line; and beyond them is [said to be] no habitation, or cultivation: [sometimes applied to the Negroes absolutely; for] some say that their country extends from the western parts of Africa nearly to Abyssinia, [comprehending the whole of Nigritia properly so called, or at least the whole of the countries of the Negroes known to the Arabs of the classical ages,] and that part of it is on the Nile of Egypt: (Msb:) the n. un. is ↓ زَنْجِىٌّ and زِنْجِىٌّ, (AA, A'Obeyd, ISk, S, K,) like as رُومِىٌّ is of رُومٌ: (TA:) and ↓ أَزْنُجٌ occurs as a broken pl., meaning the divisions and subtribes [of that nation]: so says AAF, and so in the M. (TA.) زَنْجِىٌّ and زِنْجِىٌّ [of which the latter is the more common, A man, and a thing, of, or belonging to, or relating to, the زَنْج or زِنْج]: see the preceding paragraph.

الزُّنُوجُ: see the first paragraph.

أَزْنُجٌ: see the first paragraph.

المَزْنَجَةُ: see the first paragraph.