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.
