ج • ن • ز

, aor. جَنِزَ , (A, Msb, K,) and جَنُزَ , (A,) inf. n. جَنْزٌ, (TA,) He veiled, concealed, hid, or covered, it. (A, Msb, K.) -A2- He collected it; or gathered it together or up; (K;) as also ↓ جنّزِهُ, inf. n. تَجْنِيزٌ. (Sgh, TA.) You say also, جُنَزَ الرَّجُلُ, part. n. ↓ مَجْنُوزٌ, The man was gathered up [app. as a corpse is gathered up in the grave-clothes]: (TA:) or (assumed tropical:) he died. (Har p. 122.)

, inf. n. تَجْنِيزٌ: see 1. It is used by El-Hasan El-Basree as signifying He put it (namely a corpse) upon the bier. (K, * TA.)

, [from جَنَايءِزُ, pl. of جَنَازَةٌ,] One who recites [or chants the profession of the faith &c.] before the dead [in a funeral-procession]. (TA.)

and جَنَازَةٌ signify the same, (Mgh, Msb, K,) namely, A dead person; a corpse: (K:) but the former is the more chaste: (Msb:) or the former signifies the dead person; and the latter, the bier: (As, IAar, Msb, K:) or the former, the bier; and the latter, the dead person: (Mgh, Msb, K:) so accord. to Th, as related by Aboo-'Amr Ez-Záhid: (Msb:) or the former is said by the vulgar to mean the bier: (As, TA:) or the former signifies the bier with the dead person: (K:) or the dead person upon the bier: (S:) and the bier is not so called unless the dead person is upon it: (AAF:) when the dead person is not upon it, it is called سَرِيرٌ and نَعْشٌ: (AAF, S:) but the vulgar say جَنَازَةٌ, with fet-h; (S;) which is not allowable: (Lth, As, Mgh, TA:) or جَنَازَةٌ [so in the TA] signifies the man: or the bier with the man: (En-Nadr, TA:) جنازة is derived from جَنَزَهُ, in the first of the senses assigned to it above: (A, Msb, TA:) so some assert: (IDrd, TA:) but ISd says, I know not whether this be correct: (TA:) or a جَنَازَة is so called because the clothes are gathered together when the man is upon the bier: ('Abd-Allah Ibn-El-Hasan, TA:) some say that it is Nabathean: (TA:) the pl. is جَنَايءِزُ. (S.) The Arabs say, تَرَكْتُهُ جِنَازَةً I left him a corpse, or dead. (As, TA.) And ضُرِبَ الرَّجُلُ حَتَّى تُرِكَ جَنَازَةً [so in the TA, The man was beaten until he was left a corpse]. (ISh, TA.) And رُمِىَ فِى جِنَازَتِهِ, meaning, He died: (Lth, Mgh:) or he has been carried, or lifted, and put [into his bier]: this they say when they give information of the death of a man: (TA:) and they say also, طُعِنَ فِى جِنَازَتِهِ, meaning the same. (Lth, Mgh, TA.) Also جِنَازَةٌ [or جَنَازَةٌ] (tropical:) A wine-skin [when emptied; as though it were a body without a soul]. (K.) A certain impudent man of the Arabs, 'Amr Ibn- Ki'ás, says,

وَكُنْتُ إِذَا أَرَى زِقًّا صَرِيعًا

يُنَاحُ عَلَى جَنَازَتِهِ بَكَيْتُ

[And I used, when I saw a wine-skin laid prostrate, its corpse being wailed over, to weep, or accord. to Th, as is said in the TA in art. بكى, to sing]. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) Anything oppressive and grievous, عَلَى قَوْمٍ to a people. (Lth, K.) (assumed tropical:) A sick person. (Sgh, K.)

: see 1.