ضَنًى

: verbal noun of 1. (S, M, &c.)

Also, [in some copies of the K erroneously written ضَنِىٌّ,] and ↓ ضَنٍ; (S, M, Msb, K;) the former applied alike to a man (Fr, IAar, T, S, Msb) and to a woman (IAar, T, S, Msb) and to two persons (Msb) and to a plural number, (Fr, IAar, T, S, Msb,) because originally a verbal noun, (S, Msb,) for ذُو ضَنًى and ذَاتُ ضَنًى [&c.]; (Msb;) or some do not dualize it nor pluralize it, because it is [originally] a verbal noun, and others dualize it and pluralize it; (M;) but ↓ ضَنٍ has a feminine (Msb) and a dual and a plural, (S,) its feminine being ضَنِيَةٌ (Msb, TA) [and its dual ضَنِيَانِ] and the plural is أَضْنَاءٌ; (TA;) [Slender, and small in body: and hence, (see 1,)] diseased, disordered, or sick: (S:) [or lean, or emaciated: (see again 1:)] or affected with a disease, disorder, or sickness, (M, Msb, K,) of long continuance, and settled, (M,) or constant, so that he is at the point of death, (Msb,) or such as infects, or pervades, him, and so that, whenever he thinks himself to be recovering, he relapses. (K.) You say, تَرَكْتُهُ ضَنًى and ↓ ضَنِيًا [I left him lean, or diseased, &c.]. (S.)