Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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1 ضَنَّ بِهِ ذ , (Mgh, Msb,) first pers. ضَنِنْتُ بِهِ, (S, Msb, *) [and one may say عَلَيْهِ, and عَنْهُ, in the place of بِهِ, (see ضَنِينٌ,)] and ضَنِنُوا occurs, in a verse of Kaanab Ibn-Umm-Sáhib, used by poetic license for ضَنُّوا, (S,) aor. ضَنَ3َ ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and ضَنَّ, (Msb,) first pers. ضَنَنْتُ, (S, Msb, *) aor. ضَنِ3َ , (S, Msb, K,) accord to Fr, (S,) or, accord. to Th, Fr said, I have heard ضَنَنْتُ, though I have not heard أَضِنُّ, but this aor. is mentioned by Yaakoob; (TA;) inf. n. ضِنٌّ (S, Mgh, Msb, K [in the CK ضِنَانًا is erroneously put for ضِنًّا]) and ضَنٌّ (TA) and ضَنَانَةٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) with fet-h, (Msb, TA,) and ضِنَّةٌ, (Msb,) or this last is a simple subst.; (Mgh;) He was, or became, niggardly, tenacious, stingy, or avaricious, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) of it. (S, Mgh, Msb. [See also 8.]) You say, ضَنَّ عَلَيْهِ بِكَذَا He was, or became, niggardly, &c., to him, of such a thing. (Mgh.) And ↓ إِِنَّمَا يُضَنُّ بِالضَّنِينِ [Only he who clings is to be clung to]: a prov., meaning that you should cling to fraternizing [only] with him who clings to fraternizing with you. (Meyd, and Har p. 42.) And ضَنِنْتُ بِالمَنْزِلِ, inf. n. ضِنٌّ and ضَنَانَةٌ, [I kept tenaciously to, or] I did not quit, or relinquish, the place of alighting, or abode. (TA.)