ضَنِىَ
1.
, (S, M, Msb, K,) aorist
ضَنَىَ
, (Msb, K,) verbal noun ضَنًى; (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) and
اضطنى signifies the same; He was, or became, slender, and small in body: and hence, (Ham p. 112,) he was, or became, diseased, disordered, or sick; (S, and Ham ibid.;) because disease occasions leanness, or emaciation: (Ham:) or he was, or became, lean, or emaciated: (so according to the explanation of the verbal noun in the Mgh:) or he was, or became, affected with a disease, disorder, or sickness, (M, Msb, K,) of long continuance, and settled, (M,) or constant, so that he was at the point of death, (Msb,) or such as infected, or pervaded, him, and so that, whenever he thought himself to be recovering, he relapsed. (K.)
2.
[See also 1 in article ضنو.]