Hebrew edit

Etymology edit

Root
ז־נ־ח (z-n-ḥ)

Compare Arabic نَزَحَ (nazaḥa).

Verb edit

זָנַח (zanákh) third-singular masculine past (pa'al construction)

  1. to abandon, to desert, to leave
    • 1938, Nathan Alterman, Still the Tune Returns 1–2:
      עוד חוזר הניגון שזנחת לשווא \ והדרך עודנה נפקחת לאורך
      'od khozér hanigún shezanakhtá lasháv / vehadérekh 'odéna nifkakhát laórekh
      Still the tune returns, which you abandoned in vain / and the way still opens throughout

Conjugation edit