[1]
ظَنَّ , aor.
ظَنُ3َ , inf. n.
ظَنٌّ, (Msb,) [
He thought,
opined, supposed, or
conjectured: and
he doubted:
and
he knew, but
not by ocular perception: see
ظَنٌّ below:] you say,
ظَنَنْتُ الشَّىْءَ, aor.
أَظُنُّهُ,
inf. n.
ظَنٌّ; and ↓
اِظَّنَنْتُهُ and
اِظْطَنَنْتُهُ; and
↓
تَظَنَّنْتُهُ and
تَظَنَّيْتُهُ, this last formed by changing
the last
ن into
ى: [i. e.
I thought the thing,
&c:] and Lh mentions, as heard from the
Benoo-Suleym,
ظَنْتُ ذَاكَ i. e.
ظَنَنْتُ ذاك [
I
thought that, &c.] like
ظَلْتُ and other instances
of the dial. of Suleym. (M.) [In the first of
the senses expl. above, it governs two objective
complements, which are originally an inchoative
and an enunciative:] you say,
ظَنَنْتُكَ زَيْدًا [
I
thought thee Zeyd, originally
I thought thou wast
Zeyd], and
ظَنَنْتُ زَيْدًا إِيَّاكَ [
I thought Zeyd
thee, originally
I thought Zeyd was thou], denoting
by a pronoun what is originally an inchoative [in
the former phrase] and what is originally an
enunciative [in the latter phrase]. (S, TA.) It
is also used [in this sense] in the same manner as
a verb signifying an oath, the Arabs giving it
the same kind of complement, saying,
ظَنَنْتُ لَعَبْدُ
ٱللّٰهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْكَ [
I thought surely 'Abd-Allah was
better than thou]. (S in art.
درد.) [
ظَنَّ بِهِ كَذَا
means
I thought of him, or
it, such a thing: and
I thought such a thing to be in him, or
it: and is
used in relation to good and to evil.] It is said
in the Kur [xxxiii. 10],
وَتَطُنُّونَ بِٱللّٰهِ ٱلظُّنُونَا [
And
ye were thinking, of God, various
thoughts]. (M.)
Accord. to Sb,
ظَنَنْتُ بِهِ means
I made him, or
it, the place [i. e.
object]
of my ظَنّ [or
thought,
&c.]. (M.) [In all these exs. the verb denotes
a state of mind between doubt and certainty, but
the latter is predominant: and hence
ظَنَّ sometimes means
He doubted: and sometimes,
he
knew, by considering with endeavour to understand, not by ocular perception; being more frequently used in this sense than as meaning “ he
doubted, ” though not so frequently as it is in the
sense of “ he thought, ” whence the meaning “ he
knew ” is held by some to be tropical.]
إِنَّى,
ظَنَنْتُ أَنِّى مُلَاقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ, in the Kur [lxix. 20],
means
Verily I knew [
that I should meet with my
reckoning]. (T.) And
ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُمْ مُلَاقُو
رَبِّهِمْ, in the same [ii. 43], means
Who know
[
that they shall meet their Lord, lit.,
be meeters of
their Lord]. (Msb.) And
ظَنَنْتُ مَا قَالَ, occurring in a trad., means
I knew [
what he meant to
say by his making a sign with his hand]. (TA.)
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2-b2-
ظَنَنْتُهُ, (M, Mgh, Msb,) aor. as above, (Msb,)
and so the inf. n., (M,) signifies also
I suspected
him; thought evil of him; (M, Mgh, Msb;)
and (M) so ↓
اِظَّنَنْتُهُ (S, M, Mgh, K) and
اِظْطَنَنْتُهُ (M, TA) and
اِطَّنَنْتُهُ. (TA.) [Thus,
too, ↓
أَظْنَنْتُهُ accord. to several copies of the S
and accord. to the CK; but this is app. a mistranscription.] In the saying of Ibn-Seereen,
لَمْ
يَكُنْ عَلِىٌّ يُظَّنُّ ↓
فِى قَتْلِ عُثْمَانَ, (T, S, K, but in
the T
مَا كَان,) meaning
Alee was not suspected
[
in the case of the slaying of 'Othmán], (T,)
يُظَّنُّ is of the measure
يُفْتَعَلُ, originally
يُظْتَنُّ:
(T, S, K:) so says A'Obeyd: (T:) or, as some
relate it, the word is
يُطَّنُّ. (TA.) One says,
هُوَ يُظَّنُّ ↓
بِكَذَا and
يُطَّنُّ, meaning
He is suspected of such a thing. (TA in art.
طن.) And
طَنَنْتُ بِزَيْدٍ and
ظَنَنْتُ زَيْدًا I suspected Zeyd: in
this sense the verb has a single objective complement. (TA.)