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4 اطنى ذ : see 1. ― -b2- Also He inclined to suspicion, or evil opinion: (K, TA:) and sometimes pronounced أَطْنَأَ. (TA.) -A2- اطناهُ He (a man) hit him (i. e. another man) in that which was not a vital part. (K, TA. In some copies of the K, فِى المَقْتَلِ is [erroneously] put for فِى غَيْرِ المَقْتَلِ.) And, said of a disease, It left him (i. e. a sick man) with somewhat of life remaining in him. (IAar, TA.) One says, هٰذِهِ حَيَّةٌ لَا تُطْنِى This is a serpent that will not suffer him who is bitten by it to survive; (ISk, * S, * K;) that kills instantly: (ISk, S:) or that will not miss: (AHeyth, TA:) originally لا تُطْنِئُ. (ISk, S.) And ضَرَبَهُ ضَرْبَةً لَا تُطْنِى He struck him a blow that would not be slow in killing him. (TA.) And لَدَغَتْهُ حَيَّةٌ فَأَطْنَتْهُ [A serpent bit him and suffered him to survive]. (TA.) And the subst. [used in the sense of the inf. n.] from this verb as expl. in all these phrases is ↓ طَنًى . (TA.)

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