دنق
1 دَنَقَ,
aor. ـُ and دَنِقَ,
inf. n. دُنُوقٌ, He pursued small, little, or minute, things. (
JK, Ibn-'Abbád,
Z,
K. [See also 2.]) [Two other significations assigned to دَنَقَ in the
CK and in the Lexicons of Golius and Freytag belong to دَنَّقَ.]
2 دنّق, (
S,
Mgh,
TA,)
inf. n. تَدْنِيقٌ, (
Mgh,
K,) He went to the utmost point [in his dealings &c.]: (
S,
K,
TA:) he was minute, observant of small things, nice, or scrupulous: (
Mgh:) he examined minutely into his dealings and expenses. (So
accord. to an explanation of the
act. part. n. in the
TA.) Hence the saying, لَا تُدَنَّقُوا فَيُدَنَّقَ عَلَيْكُمْ [Go not ye to the utmost point against others, for in that case the utmost point may be gone to against you]. (
S,
TA.) And the saying of El-Hasan, (
Mgh,
TA,) لَعَنَ اللّٰهُ الدَّانَقَ وَ مَنْ دَنَّقَ, (
TA,) or وَ مَنْ دَنَّقَ بِهِ, (
Mgh,) [May God curse the دانق and him who has been minute, &c., in his dealings, or and him who has been minute, &c., therewith;] as though he meant to forbid the considering and examining a paltry or contemptible thing: (
TA:) or, as some relate it, وَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ
أَحْدَثَ الدَّانَقَ [and the first who innovated the دانَق], meaning El-Hajjáj. (
Mgh.)
b2: [Hence,] تَدْنِيقٌ, metonymically, signifies (
tropical:) The being niggardly, stingy, or avaricious. (
Az,
TA.)
b3: Also The continuing to look at a thing; (
S,
K;) as also تَرْنِيقٌ: [or rather each has this signification elliptically; for] you say, دنّق إِلَيْهِ النَّظَرَ and رنّق [meaning He continued looking at it]. (
S.) [See رَنَّقَ.] And in like manner, The looking weakly. (
S,
TA.) And دنّق بَصَرَهُ He looked hard, and sharply, or intently. (
JK.)
b4: Also (
tropical:) The approaching of the sun to setting. (
S,
K,
TA.) You say, دنّقت الشَّمْسُ (
tropical:) The sun became near to setting. (
JK,
TA. [See also رنّقت.])
b5: And دنّق (
tropical:) He (a man) died: (
JK,
TA:) or (
tropical:) he was near to dying;
inf. n. as above. (
TA.)
b6: And دنّقت عَيْنُهُ, (
JK,
K,
TA, [
accord. to the
CK دَنَقَتْ, which is wrong,])
inf. n. تَدْنِيقٌ, (
S,
TA,) (
tropical:) His eye sank, or became depressed, in his head: (
JK,
S,
K,
TA:) or,
accord. to
Az, the more correct explanation is, the ball, or globe, of his eye became prominent, and apparent. (
TA.)
b7: And دنّق وَجْهُهُ, (
Lth,
K,
TA, [in the
CK, erroneously, دَنَقَ,])
inf. n. تَدْنِيقٌ, (
Lth,
TA,) His face exhibited emaciation, arising from fatigue or disease. (
Lth,
K,
TA.) دُنُوقٌ [a
pl. of which the
sing. is not mentioned] Persons niggardly, or parsimonious, in expenditure, towards their households (
IAar,
K,
TA) and themselves. (
IAar,
TA.) دَنِيقٌ One who alights by himself, (
TA,) and eats by himself in the daytime, and in the moonlight by night, last the guest should see him: (
K,
TA:) mentioned by
IAar, on the authority of Abu-I-Mekárim: and so كِيصٌ and صُوصٌ. (
TA.) دَانَقٌ: see the next paragraph.
دَانِقٌ Foolish; stupid; having little, or no, intellect, or understanding: (
K:) and so دَائِقٌ. (
TA.)
b2: (
tropical:) A thief. (
JK, Ibn-'Abbád,
K,
TA.)
b3: Emaciated and falling down, or emaciated and tottering;
expl. by مَهْزُولٌ سَاقِطٌ: (
AA,
S,
K:) or falling down, or tottering, (سَاقِطٌ,) by reason of emaciation: (
JK:) applied to a man (
AA,
K) and to a she-camel. (
K.)
b4: Having a constant, or chronic, disease, and oppressed thereby so as to be at the point of death. (
AA,
TA.)
A2: Also, and ↓ دَانَقَ, (
JK,
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,) the former,
accord. to some, the more chaste, arabicized [from the
Pers\. دَانْك or دَانَك], (
Msb,) and ↓ دَانَاقٌ, (
JK,
S,
K,) like as they said دِرْهَمٌ and دِرْهَامٌ, (
S,) [but دَانَاقٌ seems to have been disallowed by
Sb, either as unused or as
post-classical,] The sixth part of a dirhem (or drachm); (
S,
Msb,
K;) [i. e.] two carats; (
Mgh;) [i. e.] two grains of the خُرْنُوب [or carob], with the ancient Greeks, for the dirhem with them was twelve grains of the خرنوب; but the دانق of the Muslims is two grains of the خرنوب and two thirds of a grain of the خرنوب, for the dirhem of the Muslims is sixteen grains of the خرنوب: (
Msb:) and the sixth part of the deenár: (
TA: [but this I find nowhere else: see دِينَارٌ: and see also رِطْلٌ:]) the
pl. of دانق is دَوَانِقُ and دَوَانِيقُ; (
Mgh,
TA;) the former is said by
Az to be
pl. of دَانِقٌ; and the latter, of دَانَقٌ; and it is said that every
pl. of the measure فَوَاعِلُ or مَفَاعِلُ may be lengthened with ى so that one may say فَوَاعِيلُ and مَفَاعِيلُ: (
Msb:) or,
accord. to
Sb, دَوَانِيقُ is
pl. of ↓ دَانَاقٌ, though this be not in their speech. (
TA.) [Also A small silver coin, the sixth part of the coin called دِرْهَم.] The
dim. is ↓ دُوَيْنِيقٌ. (
TA.) دَانَاقٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.
دَوَانِقِىٌّ [rel.
n. from دَوَانِقُ
pl. of دَانِقٌ], (ElMekeen, “Hist. Sarac. ” p. 104,) or دَوَانِيقِىٌّ [rel.
n. from دَوَانِيقُ
pl. of دَانَاقٌ], (
TA,) [Of, or belonging or relating to, dániks: and hence,] a surname of the 'Abbásee Khaleefeh Aboo-Jaáfar El-Mansoor; (El-Mekeen,
TA;) because of his extreme niggardliness. (El-Mekeen.) دُوَينِيْقٌ: see دَانِقٌ, last sentence.
مُدَنِّقٌ One who examines minutely into his dealings and expenses: used in this sense by the people of El-'Irák. (
TA.)
b2: عَيْنٌ مُدَنِّقَةٌ An eye of which the ball, or globe, is prominent, and apparent: so
accord. to
Az; and
Az holds this to be the correct explanation, rather than an eye sunk, or depressed, in the head. (
TA.)
