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Entries on زعل in 9 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Ibn Sīda al-Mursī, Al-Muḥkam wa-l-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam, Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy, and 6 more

زعل

1 زَعِلَ, (S, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. زَعَلٌ; (S, TA;) and ↓ تزعّل; (K;) He was, or became, brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick; (S, K, TA;) and he exulted, or exulted greatly, or excessively, and behaved insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully. (TA.) b2: and the former, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He (a horse) curvetted, pranced, leaped, sprang, or bounded, without his rider. (K.) b3: And He writhed, or cried out and writhed, by reason of hunger. (TA.) b4: [In the modern language, He was, or became, weary: one says, زَعِلْتُ مِنْهُ I was, or became, weary of it.]4 ازعلهُ [in the CK erroneously written زاعَلَهُ] It (pasture, and fatness, TA) rendered him [i. e. a beast] brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick. (S, K, TA.) b2: And ازعلهُ مِنْ مَكَانِهِ He, or it, removed him, or unsettled him, from his place. (Ibn-' Abbád, K.) 5 تَزَعَّلَ see 1.

زَعِلٌ Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick; (S, TA;) as also ↓ إِزْعِيلٌ: (K:) the former is applied in this sense to a horse; and ↓ the latter, as well as the former, to an ass, [i. e. a wild ass,] as meaning brisk, lively, &c., and curvetting, prancing, leaping, springing, or bounding: and the former signifies also exulting, or exulting greatly, or excessively, and behaving insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully: pl. زُعَّلٌ, applied by Tarafeh to male ostriches. (TA.) b2: Also Writhing, or crying out and writhing, by reason of hunger. (S, K.) زُعْلُولٌ Light, or active, (Kr, K,) in spirit and in body: (TA in art. زغل:) accord. to Kr and Ibn-' Abbád, with ع and with غ: in the “ Mu-sannaf ” of A'Obeyd, with غ only. (TA.) زَعْلَانُ Writhing, or crying out and writhing, having no rest; as also ↓ مُتَزَعِّلٌ. (TA.) b2: [In the modern language, Weary: (see 1, last sentence:) and having its fem. with ة.]

إِزْعِيلٌ: see زَعِلٌ, in two places.

مُتَزَعِّلٌ: see زَعْلَانُ.
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