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زَانَهُ , (S, MA, Msb, K,) aor. يَزِينُهُ, (Msb,)
inf. n. زَيْنٌ; (MA, Msb, KL, TA;) and ↓ زيّنهُ,
(S, MA, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَزْيِينٌ; (Msb, KL,
TA;) and ↓ أَزَانَهُ, (Msb, K,) and ↓ أَزْيَنَهُ, (K,)
which is its original form, (TA,) inf. n. إِزَانَةٌ;
(Msb;) signify the same; (S, MA, Msb, K;)
He, or it, adorned, ornamented, decorated,
decked, bedecked, garnished, embellished, beautified, or graced, him, or it. (MA, KL, PS: [and
the like is indicated in the S and Msb and K.])
[زَانَهُ said of a quality, and of an action, and of a
saying, is best rendered It adorned him, or
graced him, or was an honour to him; contr. of
شَانَهُ; as is indicated in the S and K: and sometimes means it was his pride: and ↓ زيّنهُ means
as expl. above: and he embellished it, dressed it
up, or trimmed it; said in this sense as relating
to language: and he embellished it, or dressed it
up, namely, an action &c. to another (لِغَيْرِهِ);
often said in this sense of the Devil; (as in the
Kur vi. 43, &c.;) i. e. he commended it to him:]
زَانَهُ كَذَا and ↓ زيّنهُ [Such a thing adorned him,
&c.,] are expl. as said when one's excellence
[فَضْلُهُ, as I read for فعله, an evident mistranscription,] appears either by speech or by action:
and تَزْيِينُ ↓ ٱللّٰهِ لِلْأَشْيَآءِ [God's adorning, &c., of
things] is sometimes by means of his creating
them مُزَيَّنَة [i. e. adorned, &c.]; and تَزْيِينُ ↓ النَّاسِ
[The adorning, &c., of men], by their abundance
of property, and by their speech, i. e. by their
extolling Him. (Er-Rághib, TA.) One says,
زَانَهُ الحُسْنُ [Beauty adorned, or graced, him, or
it]. And Mejnoon says,
فَيَا رَبِّ إِذْ صَيَّرْتَ لَيْلَى لِىَ الهَوَى
فَزِنِّى لِعَيْنَيْهَا كَمَا زِنْتَهَا لِيَا
[And, O my Lord, since Thou hast made Leylà
to be to me the object of love, then grace Thou me
to her eyes like as Thou hast graced her to me].
(S, TA: but in the former, مِنَ الهَوى in the place
of لِىَ الهَوَى. [The reading in the S means of the
objects of love: for هَوًى, being originally an
inf. n., may be used alike as sing. and pl.])
تَزْيِينُ ↓ السِّلْعَةِ فِى البَيْعِ [means The setting off,
or commending, of a commodity in selling; and]
is allowed, if without concealment of a fault, or
defect, from the purchaser, and without lying in
the attribution and description of the article.
(TA.)