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جِنَازَةٌ جناز جنازه جنازة and جَنَازَةٌ signify the same, (Mgh, Msb, K,) namely, A dead person; a corpse: (K:) but the former is the more chaste: (Msb:) or the former signifies the dead person; and the latter, the bier: (As, IAar, Msb, K:) or the former, the bier; and the latter, the dead person: (Mgh, Msb, K:) so accord. to Th, as related by Aboo-'Amr Ez-Záhid: (Msb:) or the former is said by the vulgar to mean the bier: (As, TA:) or the former signifies the bier with the dead person: (K:) or the dead person upon the bier: (S:) and the bier is not so called unless the dead person is upon it: (AAF:) when the dead person is not upon it, it is called سَرِيرٌ and نَعْشٌ: (AAF, S:) but the vulgar say جَنَازَةٌ, with fet-h; (S;) which is not allowable: (Lth, As, Mgh, TA:) or جَنَازَةٌ [so in the TA] signifies the man: or the bier with the man: (En-Nadr, TA:) جنازة is derived from جَنَزَهُ, in the first of the senses assigned to it above: (A, Msb, TA:) so some assert: (IDrd, TA:) but ISd says, I know not whether this be correct: (TA:) or a جَنَازَة is so called because the clothes are gathered together when the man is upon the bier: ('Abd-Allah Ibn-El-Hasan, TA:) some say that it is Nabathean: (TA:) the pl. is جَنَائِزُ. (S.) The Arabs say, تَرَكْتُهُ جِنَازَةً I left him a corpse, or dead. (As, TA.) And ضُرِبَ الرَّجُلُ حَتَّى تُرِكَ جَنَازَةً [so in the TA, The man was beaten until he was left a corpse]. (ISh, TA.) And رُمِىَ فِى جِنَازَتِهِ, meaning, He died: (Lth, Mgh:) or he has been carried, or lifted, and put [into his bier]: this they say when they give information of the death of a man: (TA:) and they say also, طُعِنَ فِى جِنَازَتِهِ, meaning the same. (Lth, Mgh, TA.) ― -b2- Also جِنَازَةٌ [or جَنَازَةٌ] (tropical:) A wine-skin [when emptied; as though it were a body without a soul]. (K.) A certain impudent man of the Arabs, 'Amr Ibn- Ki'ás, says, “ وَكُنْتُ إِِذَا أَرَى زِقًّا صَرِيعًا
يُنَاحُ عَلَى جَنَازَتِهِ بَكَيْتُ
” [And I used, when I saw a wine-skin laid prostrate, its corpse being wailed over, to weep, or accord. to Th, as is said in the TA in art. بكى, to sing]. (TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Anything oppressive and grievous, عَلَى قَوْمٍ to a people. (Lth, K.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) A sick person. (Sgh, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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