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اضنكهُ He (God) caused him to be affected with a coryza, or defluxion from the head and nose. (TA.)

ضَنْكٌ an inf. n. of ضَنُكَ : (O, K:) its primary signification is Narrowness, or straitness, and hardship. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) ― -b2- And Narrow, or strait; syn. ضَيِّقٌ ; (S, M, O, K; [in the CK, and in a copy of the S, ضِيق , which is also a correct explanation, as shown above; but not what is here meant, as appears from what follows;]) applied to anything, (M, K,) masc. and fem., (M, K, and Bd in xx. 123,) being an inf. n. used as an epithet. (Bd ibid.) [Like the Pers. تَنْG .] One says مَكَانٌ ضَنْكٌ A narrow, or strait, place. (IDrd, O, TA.) And عَيْشٌ ضَنْكٌ A strait life; or strait sustenance, or means of subsistence; (IDrd, O, TA;) as also ↓ عَيْشٌ ضَنِيكٌ : (AA, O, K, TA:) and thus مَعِيشَةً ضَنْكًا in the Kur xx. 123; where some read ↓ ضَنْكَى , like سَكْرَى : (Bd:) or this means such as is unlawful; (O, TA;) every life that is unlawful being termed ضَنْكٌ , accord. to Lth, even though it be ample: (O, TA: *) Aboo-Is-hák thinks it to mean [subsistence] in the fire of Hell: but says that most explain this phrase in the Kur as meaning the punishment of the grave: (TA:) thus it means accord. to Ibn-Mes'ood: (O:) or, accord. to Katádeh, Hell: (O, TA:) or, accord. to Ed-Dahhák, forbidden gain: (TA:) or, as some say, الضَّرِيعُ [q. v.], and الزَّكُّومُ [q. v.]. (Bd.)

ضُنْكَةٌ : see ضُنَاكٌ .

ضَنْكَى : see ضَنْكٌ .

ضَنَاكٌ : see ضِنَاكٌ .

ضُنَاكٌ A coryza, or defluxion from the head and nose; syn. زُكَامٌ ; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ ضُنْكَةٌ . (K.)

ضِنَاكٌ ; (O, K, &c.;) accord. to El-Fárábee, (O, TA,) and J [in the S], (TA,) ↓ ضَنَاكٌ ; but accord. to others, with kesr, and this is the right; (O, TA;) Compact in flesh; applied to a woman: (El-Fárábee, S, O:) or plump, and compact in flesh; so applied: (Lth, TA:) or heavy in the hinder part, (K, TA,) and large in body; (TA;) so applied: (K, * TA:) or having much flesh; applied to a male and to a female, without ة : (IAth, TA:) and firm in make, and strong; applied to a male and to a female; (K, TA;) of human beings, and of camels, and in like manner of palm-trees and of trees in general: (TA:) and, applied to a she-camel, thick in the hinder part: (TA:) and [large; applied to trees ( شَجَرٌ ): or] large trees. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.)

ضَنِيكٌ : see ضَنْكٌ . ― -b2- Also Weak in his body, and in his intellect, (AZ, O, K,) and in his judgment, and in his soul. (K,) ― -b3- And A servant who works for his bread. (AZ, O, K.) ― -b4- And i. q. مَقْطُوعٌ [Cut off; &c.]. (AA, O, K.)

ضُنْأَكٌ Hard, and firm and compact in flesh; (Lh, O, K;) applied to a man; (Lh, O;) as also ضَنْأَكٌ : (K:) fem. ضُنْأَكَةٌ ; (Lh, O, K;) applied to a woman. (Lh, O.) And, applied to a she-camel, Great, (K, TA,) and compact in make: (TA:) as also with ة . (K.)

مُضْنَكٌ , (TA,) or ↓ مُتَضَنِّكٌ , (O,) Affected with a constant, or chronic, pervading disease; or emaciated by disease so as to be at the point of death. (O, TA.)

مَضْنُوكٌ Affected with the malady termed ضُنَاك [q. v.]. (S, O,)

مُتَضَنِّكٌ : see مُضْنَكٌ .