زنار

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • زُنَّارَة (zunnāra)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζωνάριον (zōnárion), likely via Aramaic זונרא / ܙܘܢܪܐ (zūnārā). See the usage notes for distinctions between various types of belts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zun.naːr/

Noun

زُنَّار • (zunnār) m (plural زَنَانِير (zanānīr))

  1. belt, girdle
  2. (al-Andalus) a kind of coarse mantle

Usage notes

In the time of ʿUmar a زُنَّار (zunnār) would mean a belt worn by Christians, Jews, Sabians, Magians and other non-Muslims; for it had become fashionable in the Byzantine Empire under Diocletian and Constantine to wear a ζώνη (zṓnē) or cingulum which was first a symbol of servitude in public office and then in religious office. For Zoroastrians parallelly the conviction developed to wear a كُسْتِيج (kustīj, “belt”), whereas Babylonian Jews wore a هِمْيَان (himyān) הֶמְיָנָא (hemyānā, “belt”). Public officials in the Iranian empire wore a كَمَر (kamar, “belt”) without which no Iranian of distinction would go out, termed in Arabic مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa, “belt”). With the new Muslim rulers the former girdles were imposed and the كَمَر (kamar) or مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa) prohibited for non-Muslims. An Arabic term for “girdle” neutral from the beginning is حِزَام (ḥizām).

Declension

Declension of noun زُنَّار (zunnār)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal زُنَّار
zunnār 		الزُّنَّار
az-zunnār 		زُنَّار
zunnār
nominative زُنَّارٌ
zunnārun 		الزُّنَّارُ
az-zunnāru 		زُنَّارُ
zunnāru
accusative زُنَّارًا
zunnāran 		الزُّنَّارَ
az-zunnāra 		زُنَّارَ
zunnāra
genitive زُنَّارٍ
zunnārin 		الزُّنَّارِ
az-zunnāri 		زُنَّارِ
zunnāri
dual indefinite definite construct
informal زُنَّارَيْن
zunnārayn 		الزُّنَّارَيْن
az-zunnārayn 		زُنَّارَيْ
zunnāray
nominative زُنَّارَانِ
zunnārāni 		الزُّنَّارَانِ
az-zunnārāni 		زُنَّارَا
zunnārā
accusative زُنَّارَيْنِ
zunnārayni 		الزُّنَّارَيْنِ
az-zunnārayni 		زُنَّارَيْ
zunnāray
genitive زُنَّارَيْنِ
zunnārayni 		الزُّنَّارَيْنِ
az-zunnārayni 		زُنَّارَيْ
zunnāray
plural basic broken plural diptote
indefinite definite construct
informal زَنَانِير
zanānīr 		الزَّنَانِير
az-zanānīr 		زَنَانِير
zanānīr
nominative زَنَانِيرُ
zanānīru 		الزَّنَانِيرُ
az-zanānīru 		زَنَانِيرُ
zanānīru
accusative زَنَانِيرَ
zanānīra 		الزَّنَانِيرَ
az-zanānīra 		زَنَانِيرَ
zanānīra
genitive زَنَانِيرَ
zanānīra 		الزَّنَانِيرِ
az-zanānīri 		زَنَانِيرِ
zanānīri

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Ge'ez: ዝናር (zənar)

References

  • “زنار” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎[1] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, →DOI, page 28
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎[2] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, →DOI, pages 196–198
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زنار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎[3] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 606
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زنار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎[4] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 259
  • Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “زنار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1258.
  • Levy-Rubin, Mika (2011) Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire. From Surrender to Coexistence, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 154–157
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “زنار”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎[5], Vienna, column 1881
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زنار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 532

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُنَّار (zunnār), from Ancient Greek ζωνάριον (zōnárion).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? zunnār
Dari reading? zunnār
Iranian reading? zonnâr
Tajik reading? zunnor

Noun

زنار • (zonnâr)

  1. (historical) belt or thread worn by non-Muslims:
    1. zunnar; belt that Christians and Jews are obliged to wear under Islamic rule
    2. kushti; sacred girdle of Zoroastrians
    3. sacred thread of a twice-born Hindu man
    4. (poetic) Generic symbol of infidelity, often in contrast to the تسبیح (tasbih, “Muslim rosary”).

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