Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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وسع

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وسع

1 وَسِعَ الإِنَآءُ المَتَاعَ [The vessel was sufficient in its capacity or dimensions, or sufficiently capacious, or large, for the goods]; and المَكَانُ القَوْمَ [the place for the company of men]. (Msb.) لَا يَسَعُكَ ان تَفْعَلَ كَذَا It is not in thy power, or proper for thee, (MA,) or allowable for thee, (Mgh, Msb,) to do such a thing. (MA, Mgh, Msb.) b2: وَسَعَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ, aor. ـْ and ↓ أَوْسَعَهُ, and ↓ وَسَّعَهُ; He (God) made his means of subsistence ample and abundant. (Msb.) 2 وَسَّعَ He made wide, broad, spacious, roomy, or ample. b2: وَسَّعَ لَهُ فِى المَجْلِسِ He made room, or ample space, for him in the sitting-place. (S, art. فسح.) b3: [And so] فِى المَجْلِسِ ↓ تَوَاسَّعُوا They made room, or ample space, [one for another,] in the sitting-place. (S, art. فسح.) b4: وَسَّعَ عَلَيْهِ, for وَسَّعَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ, He (God) amplified, enlarged, or made ample or plentiful, his means of subsistence; contr. of ضَيَّقَ. b5: See 1, and 4.4 أَوْسَعَهُ الشَّىْءَ [He made, or rendered, the thing ample, or free from straitness, to him;] he made the thing sufficient for him; syn. جَعَلَهُ يَسَعُهُ: (TA:) [he gave him sufficiently of the thing; or largely thereof.] b2: اَللّٰهُمَّ أَوْسِعْنَا رَحْمَتَكَ O God, make thy mercy sufficient for us; syn. اِجْعَلْهَا تَسَعُنَا. (TA.) b3: أَوْسَعَهُ أَمْرَهُ [He made, or rendered, his state, or case, or affair, ample, or free from straitness, to him]. (S, art. فرش.) See فَرَشَهُ. b4: أَوْسَعُوا لِلرَّجُلِ They made room, or ample space, for the man, in a place of standing or of sitting. (Msb, voce فَرَجَ.) b5: أَوْسَعَ عَلَيْهِ, (S, K.) and ↓ وَسَّعَ, (K,) He (God) enriched him; or rendered him free from want. (S, K.) b6: See 1.5 تَوَسَّعَ [He became, or made himself, ample, or abundant, in his circumstances; or in his means of subsistence; for توسّع فِى عَيْشِهِ;] i. q. تَرَفَّغَ. (S, in art. رفغ.) b2: تَوَسَّعَ He took a wide, an ample, or a large, range, فِى أَمْرٍ, in an affair. b3: تَوَسَّعَ فِى السَّخَآءِ (assumed tropical:) [He took a wide, or an ample range, or was profuse, in bounty, or munificence]. (S, K, in art. خرق.) b4: It expanded itself, spread out, dilated, widened. b5: He expatiated. One says, توسّع فِى الدَّارِ, and لَهُ سَاحَةٌ يتوسّع فِيهَا. (TA, voce تركّح.) b6: He strode, in walking. b7: تَوَسَّعُوا فِيهِ حَتَّى أَطْلَقُوهُ عَلَى كَذَا They extended its (a word's) signification, or amplified in respect of it, or rather, took an extended range in using it, so that they applied it to such a thing. (The lexicons, &c., passim.) b8: تَوَسَّعَ: see تَبَقَّرَ.8 اِتَّسَعَ It (a man's state, or condition, &c.) became free from straitness, or unstraitened. b2: اِتَّسَعَ عَيْشُهُ [His means, or circumstances, of life became ample, or plentiful]. (Msb, art. نعم.) b3: اِتَّسَعَ It widened, became wide, dilated, or expanded. b4: اِتَّسَعَ بَطْنُهُ His belly became wide, or distended. b5: اِتَّسَعَ لِأَمْرٍ He was capable of doing a thing. An instance occurs in the TA, voce أَوْهَبَ. b6: اِتِّسَاعُ البِئْرِ i. q.

جِرَابُهَا [The interior of the well]. (K, art. جرب.) See also 5, in art. عقد. b7: اِتَّسَعَ الخَرْقُ عَلَى الرَّاقِعِ The hole was wide to the pitcher: see خَرْقٌ. b8: اِتِّسَاعٌ Extension of the signification of a word or phrase: an amplification. (The lexicons, &c., passim.) سَعَةٌ Width; breadth; extent, or space, from side to side. See سَدِيلٌ. b2: سَعَةٌ العَيْشِ Ampleness of the means, or circumstances, of life; an unstraitened, or a plentiful, state of life. b3: سَعَةٌ [Ample scope for action, &c.: and a state in which is ample scope for action, &c.: see نَفَسٌ, and مِعْرَاضٌ:] richness, or wealthiness, or competence: and capacity, or power, or ability: (S, K:) and plentifulness and [consequently] easiness of life. (TA.) b4: سَعَةُ الصَّدْرِ i. q.

سَعَةُ الخُلُقِ. (Har, p. 194.) b5: لَكَ عَنْهُ سَعَةٌ: see رُدْحَةٌ. b6: يَجُوزُ فِى السَّعَةِ It is allowable absolutely, in other cases than those of poetical necessity. (IbrD.) وَسَاعٌ A horse wide in step: (S, K:) or i. q. جَوَادٌ. (K.) وَسِيعٌ

, pl. وِسَاعٌ: see أَرِيضء in art. أرض.

عَيْشٌ وَاسِعٌ A life ample in its means or circumstances; unstraitened, or plentiful. b2: وَاسِعٌ Having power, or ability: (Bd, iv. 129:) or rather, having ample power or ability; powerful. See Ham, p. 609. b3: نَفْسٌ وَاسِعٌ: see رَابِطٌ. b4: خُلُقٌ وَاسِعٌ (assumed tropical:) A large, or liberal, disposition: see بَارِجٌ. b5: وَاسِعُ الخُلُقِ (tropical:) Large, or liberal, in disposition. b6: وَاسِعُ الصَّدْرِ: see مَجَمٌّ. b7: وَاسِعُ الجَرْىِ (S voce سَهْبٌ, applied to a horse,) Widestepping [in running]. (So expl. in the PS.) أَوْسَعُ Wider, or widest: see 3 in art. خلط.

مُوَسَّعٌ عَلَيْهِ Amply, or abundantly, provided with the means of subsistence.

مُتَّسَعٌ Width; extent; ampleness of space, and of quantity: properly a place of width, or spaciousness. See نُفْسَةٌ and مَبْسَطٌ.

وقع

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وقع

1 وَقَعَ الأَمْرُ The thing, or affair, [fell, befell,] happened; took place; came to pass; became [executed, performed, or] realized; syn. حَصَلَ. (TA.) b2: وَقَعَ فِى He lighted, or came, upon a thing or place; and he became in a place. b3: وَقَعُوا فِى السُّنَيَّاتِ البِيضِ [They lapsed into the years of scantiness of herbage]. (K in art. سنه, q. v.) b4: وَقَعَ إِلَيْهِ It chanced, or happened, to come to him, or it: and, said of a thing borne by water, it drifted to it, namely, a place. b5: وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ It fell, lay, or closed, upon it, or against it. b6: وَقَعَ بِالأَمْرِ He originated the thing, or event, and made it to befall. (TA.) b7: وَقَعَ He fell into a snare, or the like: he became insnared. b8: وَقَعَ فِى أَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ

i. q.

صَارَ فِيهَا [He was, or became, meaning he found himself, came to be, or chanced to be, in a desert, or waterless, land]; (Msb:) and فِى رَوْضَةٍ [in a meadow, or garden]: (T, S, in art. انق:) [or he lighted upon, &c.; from the lighting of a bird]. b9: يَقَعُ followed by عَلَى, often signifies It (a garment, &c., or a portion thereof,) lies against or upon a certain part of the body, &c. b10: وَقَعَ بِهِمْ and بِهِمْ ↓ أَوْقَعَ He made much slaughter among them: (Msb:) or he fought them vehemently: (K:) or he fell upon them in fight: (PS:) both mean the same: (S:) he made an onslaught upon them: اوقع بِالعَدُوِّ

he made an assault, or a sudden assault, upon the enemy. (MA.) b11: وَقَعَ فِيهِ, inf. n. وَقِيعَةٌ, He spoke evil of him, behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise, saying of him what would grieve him if he heard it; (S;) slandered him. b12: He reviled, vilified, or vituperated, him; charged him with a vice, fault, or the like; defamed him; or detracted from his reputation. (Msb.) b13: وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا مِنْ كِفَايَتِهِ, [and مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ, (see K, art. فقر,)] It supplied, or sufficed for, his need; syn. أَغْنَى غَنَآءً. (Msb.) وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا signifies It stood in stead, or in some stead: see فَقِيرٌ, in the K; and see Bd, and Jel, ix. 60: and مَوْقِعًا عَظِيمًا, in great stead. b14: لَمْ يَقَعْ مِنْهُ مَوْقِعًا [It did not stand with him in any stead]. (S, K, voce تَسَخَّطَ, end of art. سخط.) [You say]

وَقَعَ مِنْهُ الأَمْرُ مَوْقِعًا حَسَنًا أَوْسَيِّئًا The thing stood with him [in good stead, or (if the expression be allowable) in evil stead]; syn. تَبَتَ لَدَيْهِ. (TA.) b15: وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا مِنَ الحَاجَةِ [It supplied, or sufficed for, what was needed]. (Bd, ix. 60.) b16: وَقَعْتُ بِقُرِّكَ, and بِقُحَاحِ قُرِّكَ: see قُحَاحٌ. b17: يَقَعُ عَلَى كَذَا It (a word) applies to such a thing.2 وَقَّعَ فِى الكِتَابِ

, (MA, TA,) inf. n. تَوْقِيعٌ, (KL, TA,) [as commonly used in the present day,] He signed the writing [for the purpose of giving effect to it, either beneath, or by endorsing it]: (MA, KL:) [but as generally used in earlier, though post-classical, times,] he annexed to the writing, after it had been finished, for the Sultán or the administrator of affairs, to whom it had been submitted, something [for the purpose of giving effect thereto]; as, for instance, when a complaint is submitted to the Sultán or to the administrator, and one writes beneath the writing or on the back thereof, “Let the affair, or case, of this person be looked into, and let his right, or due, be fully exacted for this person: ” or, accord. to Az, he wrote, upon the writing, a concise abstract, omitting redundances, of the objects of want [petitioned for therein]: from تَوْقِيعُ الدَّبَرِ ظَهْرَ البَعِيرِ [“ the gall's, or sore's, marking the back of the camel ”]; as though the مُوَقِّع upon the writing marked, upon the case respecting which the writing was written, that which confirmed it, and rendered its execution obligatory: (TA:) تَوْقِيعٌ also signifies such a writing itself (مَا يُوَقَّعُ فِى كِتَابٍِ; S, K, TA;) and its pl. is تَوْقِيعَاتٌ: (TA:) it is said to be an Islámic term; not old Arabic. (TA.) [Also He made an entry of a note or postil or the like, or entries of notes, &c., in the writing, or book: see an ex. voce ضِعْف. b2: وقّع بِهِ He blamed him; reproved him angrily, or severely. (TA.) b3: See 4.3 وَاقَعَ الأَمْرَ (assumed tropical:) He threw himself [or plunged] into the affair: he fell into the affair: he fell into the affair, subjecting himself to difficulty. (MA.) And (assumed tropical:) He fell to the thing; such as eating, and drinking, and the like: see 3 in art. فتك, for an instance of this, as well as a similar, meaning. b2: وَاقَعَ الأُمُورَ, inf. n. مُوَاقَعَةٌ and وِقَاعٌ, app., He was near to doing, or experiencing, the affairs, or events; syn. دَانَاهَا. (TA.) b3: وَاقَعَ شَيْئًا also means He experienced the occurrence of a thing; he met with a thing; i. e., something occurred. b4: وَاقَعَ شَيْئًا same as وَقَعَ فى شىءٍ He fell into a thing. (Kur, xviii. 51, and Expos. of the Jeláleyn.) b5: وَاقَعَهَا He compressed her. (MA.) b6: وَاقَعَ بِهِمْ [He engaged with them in fight, or conflict]. (S.) 4 أَوْقَعَ الأَمْرَ

, inf. n. إِيقَاعٌ, (with which ↓ تَوْقِيعٌ is syn., as is shown in the TA,) He made the thing, or affair, to happen, to take place, to come to pass, or to become executed or performed or realized. b2: أَوْقَعَهُ He caused him to fall into a snare, or the like; he ensnared him. b3: أَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ: see 1. b4: أَوْقَعَ فِيهِمْ شَرًّا He caused evil to befall them; occasioned them evil. b5: أَوْقَعَ بِهِ [He punished him]. (A, art. عذر.) b6: See 1. b7: أَوْقَعَ فِى قَلْبِهِ He put into his heart, or mind. b8: أَوْقَعَ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, (L, art. أرش,) or أَوْقَعَ بَيْنَهُمُ الشَّرَّ (TA, in that art.) i. q. أَرَّشَ. (L, TA, in that art.) b9: أَوْقَعَ He made a verb transitive.5 تَوَقَّعَهُ and ↓ اِسْتَوْقَعَهُ He expected it; looked for its coming to pass, or being. (S, K.) 10 إِسْتَوْقَعَ see 5.

وَقِعٌ

: see 8, in art. حذو.

وَقْعَةٌ An onslaught; a shock in battle: (S:) or such as is repeatedly made. (K.) وَقِيعَةٌ The wisp of wool, &c., with which one tars a mangy camel: see رِبْذَةٌ.

وَقَّاعٌ فِى الشَّرِّ [app., One who is wont to make others fall into evil, or mischief]. (K, voce مُنْدَاصٌ, q. v., in art. ديص.) وَاقِعٌ Actually occurring. b2: An event; a fact; a case. b3: فِى الْوَاقِعِ In fact; in reality.

إِيْقَاعٌ

, in music, A cadence.

مَوْقِعُ إِثْمٍ

An occasion (lit., a place) of falling into sin. b2: [وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا: see وَقَعَ, in three places: lit., It fell in a place of falling, or where it should fall: sometimes app. meaning it had an effect.] b3: It is said of a half of a date given as alms, لَا يَتَبَيَّنُ لَهُ مَوْقِعٌ عَلَى الجَائِعِ كَمَا لَا يَتَبَيَّنُ عَلَى الشَّبْعَانِ إِذَا أَكَلَهُ [app., There appears not, of it, any effect upon the hungry, &c.]. (O, in art. وقع, in explanation of a trad. mentioned there and in the Msb.) See وَقَعَ مَوَاقِعَهُ, voce عَلِقَ.

مُوقِعٌ An efficient.

مُوَقَّعٌ Tried, experienced: see مُوَقَّحٌ.

وخف

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وخف

1 وَخَفَهُ He beat it (namely خِطْمِىّ, IDrd, K, and in like manner سَوِيق, IDrd) with his hand, and moistened it in a طشت [or basin], (TA,) until it became viscous, or cohesive, (K, TA,) and became [fit for] food; (TA;) as also ↓ أَوْخَفَهُ (K) and ↓ وَخَّفَهُ. (TA.) 2 وَخَّفَ see 1.4 أَوْخَفَ see 1.

وشق

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وشق

8 اِتَّشَقَ

: see تَجَبْجَبَ.

وَشِيقَةٌ

: see جُبْجُبَةٌ.

زعب

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زعب

1 زَعَبْتُهُ عَنِّى, [aor. ـَ inf. n. زَعْبٌ, I pushed, thrust, drove away, or repelled, him, or it, from me. (S, TA.) b2: [Hence,] زَعَبَ said of a torrent, aor. and inf. n. as above, It was impelled in its several parts, or portions, by the impetus of one part, or portion, acting upon another; in a valley: (S, TA:) [it was, or became, copious, and drove along, one portion impelling another; like

↓ اِزْلَعَبَّ:] it ran. (TA.) b3: If you say رَعَبَ with the unpointed ر, (S, TA.) or thus and also زَعَبَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) you mean It filled the valley. (S, TA.) And the latter, It filled everything: said of rain. (TA.) And He filled a vessel. (K, TA.) b4: [Hence,] زَعَبَ المَرْأَةَ, (K, TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, is a tropical phrase, meaning جَامَعَهَا فَمَلَأَ فَرْجَهَا بِفَرْجِهِ: (TA:) or جَامَعَهَا فَمَلَأَ فَرْجَهَا مَنِيًّا: (K, * TA:) [neither of which explanations needs translation:] but, accord. to some, this is said only of one that is large, or bulky. (TA.) b5: زَعَبَ القِرْبَةَ He took up and carried the water-skin, it being full: (K, TA:) he carried it filled; as also زَأَبَهَا: (TA:) and both signify he carried it in his bosom: (TA in art. زأب: [see also 8:]) the former also signifies he was impelled onwards (تدافع) by it, carrying it, by reason of its weight. (TA in the present art.) b6: زَعَبَ بِحِمْلِهِ, said of a camel, (K, TA,) i. q. اِسْتَقَامَ [app. meaning He went right on, straight on, or undeviatingly, with his load]: (TA:) or, as also بِهِ ↓ ازدعب, he went along with his load oppressed by its weight: or he was impelled onwards (تَدَافَعَ) by it: (K, TA:) or مَرَّ يَزْعَبُ بِهِ he went along quickly with it: or he went along easily with it; namely, his load. (TA.) b7: زَعَبَ الوَادِى

The valley became filled, (K, TA,) so that the several parts, or portions, of the torrent impelled one another. (TA.) b8: زَعَبَ فِى قَيْئِهِ He vomited much, so that one portion [of the vomit] impelled on another. (TA.) b9: زَعَبَتِ القِرْبَةُ i. q. دفعت مَآءَهَا [The water-skin propelled its water: or the right reading is probably دَفَقَتْ مَآءَهَا, i. e., poured forth its water; or poured it forth with vehemence]. (TA.) b10: زَعَبَ also signifies He cut off, or divided off; and so ↓ ازدعب. (K, TA.) Yousay, زَعَبَ لَهُ مِنَ المَالِ, and ↓ ازدعب, as also ازدهب, He cut off, or divided off, for him [a portion] of the property, or wealth. (TA.) And زَعَبْتُ لَهُ زُعْبَةً مِنَ المَالِ, and زَعْبَةً, (S, K, *) and زِعْبًا, (K,) I gave to him a part, or portion, of the property, or wealth: (S, K:) or a full, or an ample, or abundant, portion thereof. (TA.) b11: زَعَبَ الشَّرَابَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He drank all the wine, or beverage. (TA.) 5 تزعّب He was brisk, lively, or sprightly; (K, TA;) and quick. (TA.) b2: He was, or became, angered, or enraged. (K.) b3: تزعّب فِى

أَكْلِهِ وَشُرْبِهِ He was immoderate in his eating and his drinking; he ate and drank much. (K.) A2: تزعّب القَوْمُ المَالَ The people, or party, divided among themselves the property, or wealth; (K;) divided it into parts, or portions. (TA.) 8 اِزْدَعَبْتُ الشَّىْءَ I carried the thing; took it up and carried it; or carried it off or away; syn. حَمَلْتُهُ: you say, مَرَّ بِهِ فَازْدَعَبَهُ [He passed by it and carried it off or away]. (S.) [See also ازدغب.] b2: See also 1, in three places. Q. Q. 4 اِزْلَعَبَّ: see 1, second sentence; and see also art. زلعب.

زَعْبٌ Muchness, copiousness, abundance, or a large quantity or number. (TA.) زِعْبٌ: see what next follows.

زَعْبَةٌ: see what next follows.

زُعْبَةٌ and ↓ زَعْبَةٌ A part, or portion, that is given, of property, or wealth; (S, K; *) as also ↓ زِعْبٌ: (K:) or a full, or an ample, or abundant, portion, that is given, thereof; and so زُهْبَةٌ. (TA.) [See 1, last sentence but one.]

زَعُوبٌ: see what next follows, in two places.

زَاعِبٌ A torrent driving along, one portion of it impelling another; (A, TA;) as also ↓ زَعُوبٌ [but app. in an intensive sense; and ↓ مُزْلَعِبٌّ, also, has the same, or a similar, meaning]: or the first and ↓ second signify a torrent filling the valley: and the first is also applied to rain, as meaning filling everything. (TA.) b2: Also A guide of the way, one who is a frequent traveller. (S, K.) زُمْحٌ زَاعِبِىٌّ, (A,) and رِمَاحٌ زَاعِبِيَّةٌ, (A, K,) A spear, (A,) and spears, (A, K,) so called in relation to a certain man named Zá'ib (زَاعِبٌ), (A, K,) of El-Khazraj, who made spear-heads: (A:) so says Mbr: (TA:) or (assumed tropical:) the spears thus termed are such as quiver much (عَسَّالَةٌ), which, when shaken, have a motion like the torrent termed زَاعِبٌ, of which one portion impels another: the ى being that of the rel. n.; to give intensiveness to the signification, as in أَحْمَرِىٌّ: (A:) or (tropical:) such that, when they are shaken, their كُعُوب [i. e. knots, or joints, or their internodal portions,] are as though they ran one into another, (K, TA,) by reason of its pliancy: so says As: and this meaning is tropical; for it is from the phrase مَرَّ يَزْعَبُ بِحِمْلِهِ meaning “ he went along [impelled by his load, or] easily with his load: ”

accord. to another explanation, زاعبىّ applied to a spear means such that, when it is shaken, the whole of it is [in appearance] impelled in its several parts by the impetus of one part acting upon another, as though its hind part ran into its fore part: (TA:) or زَاعِبِيَّةٌ signifies spears, (S, TA,) universally. (TA.) You say also سِنَانٌ زَاعِبِىٌّ (S, TA) A spear-head of Zá'ib. (TA.) مُزْلَعِبٌّ: see زَاعِبٌ; and see also art. زلعب.

زلج

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زلج

1 زَلَجَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. زَلْجٌ and زَلَجَانٌ and زَلِيجٌ; and ↓ انزلج; He went a gentle pace: and he walked, or ran, quickly: (L:) or زَلْجٌ signifies the being quick in going and in other things: and the going quickly: (TA:) and زَلَجَانٌ, the advancing, or preceding, (O, K, TA,) quickly, (O,) or in journeying: (TA: [see also زَلَخَانٌ:]) or, as some say, the going a gentle pace. (TA.) Yousay of a she-camel, زَلَجَتْ, aor. ـِ inf. n. زَلْجٌ, She went swiftly, [appearing] as though she did not move her legs by reason of her swiftness. (Lth, TA.) And زَلَجَتْ occurring in a verse of Dhu-r-Rummeh, [app. referring to draughts of water,] is expl. as meaning They descended quickly into the entrance of the gullet, by reason of vehemence of thirst. (TA.) You say also, زَلَجَتْ رِجْلُهُ His foot slipped; as also زَلَخَتْ. (Az, L and TA in art. زلخ.) And مَرَّ يَزْلِجُ, inf. n. زَلْجٌ and زَلِيجٌ, He, or it, passed, going lightly upon the ground. (S, K.) And, of an arrow, يَزْلِجُ عَلَى وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ [app. It goes along lightly upon the ground]: and يَمْضِى مَضَآءً زَلْجًا [app. meaning the same]. (TA.) And زَلَجَ السَّهْمُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. زُلُوجٌ and زَلِيجٌ, The arrow fell upon the ground, and did not go straight to the animal at which it was shot. (TA. [See also زَلَخَ.]) b2: زَلَجَ, aor. ـِ also signifies He escaped from difficulties, troubles, or distresses. (TA.) b3: And He drank vehemently of anything. (TA.) A2: See also 4.2 زلّج, inf. n. تَزْلِيجٌ, He uttered, and made current, his words, or speech, (K, TA,) and an ode, or an oration. (TA.) b2: And تَزْلِيجٌ signifies also The striving to retain life with a bare sufficiency of the means of subsistence; التَّزْلِيجُ being expl. by مُدَافَعَةُ العَيْشِ بِالبُلْغَةِ. (K.) 4 ازلج السَّهْمَ He made the arrow to fall upon the ground, and not to go straight to the animal at which it was shot. (TA. [See also 4 in art. زلخ.]) b2: ازلج البَابَ He closed, or made fast, the door with the مِزْلَاج [q. v.]; (S, * K;) as also ↓ زَلَجَهُ, (K,) inf. n. زَلْجٌ. (TA. [See, again, 4 in art. زلج.]) 5 تزلّج He, or it, slipped, or slid along or down; syn. تَزَلَّقَ: (S, TA:) his foot slipped. (KL. [See also 5 in art. زلخ.]) b2: One says of an arrow, يَتَزَلَّجُ عَنِ القَوْسِ or ↓ يَنْزَلِجُ [It slips from the bow]. (S and K, accord. to different copies.) A2: Also He persevered, or persisted, in drinking the beverage called نَبِيذ, (Lh, K, TA,) and wine; (Lh, TA;) like تسلّج. (TA.) 7 إِنْزَلَجَ see 1, first sentence: b2: and see also 5 and زَلُوجٌ, and مِزْلَاجٌ.

زَلْجٌ, as an epithet applied to a place, (S, TA,) Slippery; syn. [زَلْقٌ and] زَلَقٌ; [like زَلْخٌ;] as also ↓ زَلَجٌ (S, K) and ↓ زَلِيجٌ. (TA.) b2: See also زَالِجٌ.

A2: [Explained by Freytag as meaning “ Quod aliquis in jaculando multum tollit manum, ut majori vi mittat telum,” on the authority of Meyd, it is app. a mistranscription for زَلْخٌ, q. v.; or it may be a dial. var. of the latter.]

زَلَجٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

زُلُجٌ Smooth rocks; (K;) because the feet slip from them. (TA.) زَلَجَى, like جَمَزَى [in measure and meaning], and ↓ زَلِيجَةٌ, (K, TA,) and ↓ زَلُوجٌ, (TA,) applied to a she-camel, Quick, or swift, (K, TA,) in pace, or journeying: or, as some say, that quickly finishes in being milked. (TA.) زِلَاجٌ: see مِزْلَاجٌ.

زَلُوجٌ Quick, or swift; (K;) as also ↓ زَالِجٌ, applied to anything. (Ham p. 764.) See also زَلَجَى. [And see زَلُوخٌ.] b2: An arrow, such as is called قِدْح, that slips (↓ يَنْزَلِجُ) quickly from the hand, (K, TA,) or from the bow. (TA.) See also زَالِجٌ. b3: Applied to a well, i. q. زَلُوخٌ [q. v.]. (TA in art. زلخ.) b4: عُقْبَةٌ زَلُوجٌ A far-extending, long [stage of a journey]; (Lh, K;) as also زَلُوقٌ. (Lh, K in art. زلق, and TA. [In the CK, in this art. and in art. زلق, عَقَبَةٌ: in my MS. copy of the K, in this art., عقَبةٌ; but in art. زلق, عُقْبَةٌ, which is the right reading. See also زَلُوخٌ.]) So in the saying, سِرْنًا عقبةً زَلُوجًا [We journeyed a farextending, long stage]. (Lh, TA.) زَلِيجٌ: see زَلْجٌ: b2: and its fem., with ة: see زَلَجَى.

زَالِجٌ: see زَلُوجٌ. b2: Also An arrow that slips (يَتَزَلَّجُ or يَنْزَلِجُ [see 5]) from the bow; (S, K;) and so ↓ زَلُوجٌ [q. v.]: (K:) or an arrow that is shot by the archer, and falls short of the butt, striking violently upon a rock, and bounding up from it to the butt: but such is not reckoned مُقَرْطِس: (AHeyth, TA: [see also زَالِخٌ:]) and ↓ زَلْجٌ, as though an inf. n. used as an epithet, an arrow that falls upon the ground, and does not go straight to the animal at which it is shot. (TA.) b3: Also Escaping from difficulties, troubles, or distresses. (K.) b4: And Drinking vehemently (K) of anything. (TA.) مِزْلَجٌ, written in Freytag's Lex. مِزْلج, there expl. as meaning Quickly, or swiftly, passing; on the authority of the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen.]

مُزَلَّجٌ Small in quantity or number: (K:) a mean, paltry, small, or little, gift: (S, TA:) one hat is imperfect, or incomplete: and anything that is not done superlatively, excellently, consummately, thoroughly, or soundly: (TA:) anything low, base, vile, mean, paltry, inconsiderable, or contemptible. (K. [See also مُزَلَّخٌ.]) b2: Love (حُبّ [in the CK, erroneously, حَبّ]) that is not pure, or not genuine. (K.) b3: Having little taste. (Ham p. 404.) b4: Small in body. (Ham ibid.) b5: And hence, (Ham ibid.,) A man (K) deficient, or defective, (K, Ham,) in manliness, or manly virtue or moral goodness, (Ham,) and weak: (TA:) or defective in make: and deficient in prudence, or discretion, and precaution, or sound judgment, or firmness of mind or of judgment: (TA:) and niggardly. (K.) b6: One who is consociated with a people, not being of them: (S, K, TA:) or, as some say, i. q. دَعِىٌّ [i. e. one whose origin, or lineage, is suspected; or an adopted son; &c.]. (TA.) b7: Also Life striven to be retained (مُدَافَعٌ) with a bare sufficiency of the means of subsistence. (TA.) مِزْلَاجٌ (S, K) and ↓ زِلَاجٌ (K) [A kind of latch, or sliding bolt; like مِزْلَاقٌ and مِزْلَاخٌ;] a [thing like the] مِغْلَاق, except that it is opened with the hand, whereas the مغلاق is not to be opened save with the key: (S, K:) a wooden thing by means of which one closes or makes fast [a door]: (Ham p. 764; in explanation of the former word:) so called because of the quickness with which it slips (↓ لِسُرْعَةِ انْزِلَاجِهِ): but ISh describes the kind of مزلاج used by the people of El-Basrah as having a crooked iron key, which slips into a hole in the door, by means of which the door is locked: pl. مَزَالِيجُ. (TA.) A2: Also the former word, applied to a woman, Having little flesh in her posteriors, or posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks, sticking together; syn. رَسْحَآءُ. (S, K.)

زحف

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زحف

1 زَحَفَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. زَحْفٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and زُحُوفٌ (Msb, K) and زَحَفَانٌ, (K,) He, or it, (an army, Mgh, Msb, * or a company of men, Msb) walked, marched, or went on foot, إِلَيْهِ [to him, or it]; (S, K;) and [generally] did so by little and little; (accord. to an explanation of زَحْفٌ in the TA;) crept, or crawled, along; or went, or walked, leisurely, or gently: (Mgh:) and ↓ تزحّف إِلَيْهِ, (S, K,) as also ↓ ازدحف, (K,) i. q. تمشّى, (S, K,) i. e. he walked [with slow steps, or] heavily, with an effort, to him, or it: (TK:) and مِشْيَةُ زَحَفَانٍ means a gait in which is a heaviness of motion. (TA.) One says of a child, before he walks, (S, Msb, K,) or before he stands, (T, TA,) يَزْحَفُ [He drags himself along] (S, Msb, K) عَلَى الأَرْضِ [upon the ground], or عَلَى

اسْتِهِ [upon his posteriors]: (TA:) or زَحَفَ alone, said of a child, he went along slowly, by little and little, upon his posteriors: (Bd in viii. 15:) and to the زَحْف of children is likened the marching of two bodies of men going to meet each other for fight, when each of them marches gently, or leisurely, towards the other, before they draw near together to smite each other: and one says likewise of a child, before he walks, عَلَى ↓ يَتَزَحَّفُ الأَرْضِ, or, as in the T, عَلَى بَطْنِهِ, i. e. he drags himself along [upon the ground, or upon his belly]. (TA.) b2: زَحَفَ الدَّبَا [The young locusts not yet winged] went on, or forwards: (S, O, K:) مَشَى in this explanation in the K should be مَضَى, as in the S and A. (TA.) b3: زَحَفَ said of an arrow, (assumed tropical:) It fell short of the butt, and then slid along to it. (S, * Msb.) b4: Also, said of a camel, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ inf. n. زَحْفٌ and زُحُوفٌ, and زَحَفَانٌ, (TA,) He became fatigued, and dragged his foot, or the extremity of his foot; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ أَزْحَفُ: (S, Mgh, Msb:) or this latter signifies he (a camel) became fatigued, (K, TA,) and stood still with his master: and رَاحِلَتُهُ مِنَ الإِعْيَآءِ ↓ أَزْحَفَتْ His saddle-camel stood still from fatigue: or, accord. to El-Khattábee, correctly, أُزْحِفَتْ عَلَيْهِ: (TA:) or this is a mistake, occurring in the Fáïk; and it is correctly with fet-h: (Mgh:) and accord. to the T, زَحَفَ signifies he (a camel) became fatigued, so that he stood still with his master: (TA:) or, as some say, زَحَفَ said of one walking, or marching, [i. e., of a man and of a beast,] (Msb, TA,) accord. to Az, whether fat or lean, (Msb,) aor. ـَ inf. n. زَحْفٌ and زَحَفَانٌ, or, as Az says, زَحْفٌ and زُحُوفٌ, (TA,) signifies, (Msb,) or signifies also, (TA,) he became fatigued, (Msb, TA,) in walking, or marching. (TA.) b5: And زَحَفَ الشَّجَرُ (tropical:) The trees became in a state of gentle motion, by the influence of the wind. (TA.) A2: زَحَفَ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n. زَحْفٌ, He dragged the thing along gently. (TA.) 2 زحّف البَيْتَ بِالزَّحَّافَةِ [He swept the house, or chamber, with the زحّافة, q. v.]. (TA.) 3 زَاحَفُونَا, inf. n. مُزَاحَفَةٌ, They fought with us. (TA.) 4 أَزْحَفَ see 1, in the latter half, in two places. b2: أَزْحَفَ said of a man means His camel, or his horse or the like, became fatigued. (S.) b3: ازحف لَنَا بَنُو فُلَانٍ The sons of such a one became a زَحْف to us, (K, TA,) i. e., an army marching to us to fight with us. (TA.) b4: And ازحف فُلَانٌ Such a one attained to the utmost of that which he sought, or desired. (K, * TA.) A2: ازحف said of long journeying, It fatigued the camels. (TA.) b2: ازحفت الرِّيحُ الشَّجَرَ (tropical:) The wind put the trees into a state of gentle motion. (TA.) 5 تَزَحَّفَ see 1, in the former half, in two places.6 تزاحفوا They drew near, one to another, in fight. (IDrd, Z, K.) They walked, or marched, one to, or towards, another; as also ↓ ازدحفوا. (TA.) 8 ازدحف [originally اِزْتَحَفَ]: see 1, first sentence: and see also 6.

زَحْفٌ An army, or a military force, marching by little and little, or leisurely, to, or towards, the enemy, (S, A, K, TA,) or heavily, by reason of their multitude and force: (A, TA:) or a numerous army or military force; an inf. n. used as a subst.; (Mgh, Msb;) because, by reason of its multitude, and heaviness of motion, it is as though it crept, or crawled, along: (Mgh:) accord. to Az, from زَحَفَ عَلَى اسْتِهِ, said of a child: (TA:) not applied to a single individual: (IKoot, Msb:) pl. زُحُوفٌ. (Msb, TA.) b2: and hence, as being likened thereto, (tropical:) A swarm of locusts. (TA.) b3: فَرَّ مِنَ الزَّحْفِ, occurring in a trad., means He fled from war with unbelievers; and from encountering the enemy in war. (TA.) b4: إِذَا لَقِيتُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا زَحْفًا, in the Kur [viii. 15], means, accord. to Zj, زَاحِفِينَ, i. e. [When ye meet those who have disbelieved] marching by little and little [in consequence of their great number, to attack you]. (TA.) زَحْفَةٌ [inf. n. of un. of 1; A walk, &c.]. b2: نَارُ الزَّحْفَتَيْنِ The fire of the شِيح and the أَلَآء; because it quickly blazes in them [and then subsides]; (S, K;) so that one walks, or creeps, from them [and back to them]: (S:) or the fire of the عَرْفَج; (M, A;) because it quickly takes effect upon it; so that when it blazes, those who warm themselves at it walk, or creep, from it; then it soon subsides, and they walk, or creep, back to it: (M, TA:) and the like is said by IB; wherefore, he adds, it is called أَبُو سَرِيعٍ. (TA.) It was said to a woman of the Arabs, “Wherefore do we see you to be scant of flesh in the posteriors and thighs? ” and she answered, أَرْسَحَتْنَا نَارُ الزَّحْفَتَيْنِ [The fire of the شِيح and the أَلَآء, or of the عَرْفَج, has rendered us scant of flesh in the posteriors and thighs]. (S.) زُحَفَةٌ, (K,) or زُحَفَةٌ زُحَلَةٌ, A man (TA) who does not travel about in the countries: (K, TA:) so in the Moheet. (TA.) زَحُوفٌ: see زَاحِفٌ, in two places. b2: [Also, accord. to Freytag, occurring in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning Going along slowly.]

زَحَّافَةٌ, in the dial. of Egypt, signifies مَا يُزَحَّفُ بِهِ البَيْتُ [i. e. The thing, generally a palm-branch, with which the house, or chamber, is swept, to remove the dust and cobwebs from the roof and walls]. (TA.) زَحَنْفَفَةٌ One who creeps along (يَزْحَفُ) upon the ground, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) either from fatigue or old age. (TA.) b2: Also A man (TA) whose heel-tendons nearly knock against each other. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) زَاحِفٌ [part. n. of 1; Walking, &c.]. b2: (tropical:) An arrow that falls short of the butt, and then slides along to it: (S, * Msb, TA: *) pl. زَوَاحِفُ. (Msb.) b3: A camel fatigued, and dragging his foot, or the extremity of his foot; (K;) as also ↓ زَاحِفَةٌ, in which the ة is added to denote intensiveness: (Msb:) or the latter is applied, in the sense expl. above, to a she-camel; (S, K;) and so ↓ زَحُوفٌ; (K;) or this last signifies a she-camel that drags her hind legs or feet: and ↓ مُزْحِفٌ, applied to a he-camel, has the former of these meanings: (S:) [see also سَحُوفٌ, said to be a dial. var. of زَحُوفٌ:] the pl. of ↓ زَاحِفَةٌ is زَوَاحِفُ; (S, Msb, K;) and the pl. of ↓ زَحُوفٌ is زُحُفٌ. (TA.) Also Fatigued and motionless; whatever it be, whether lean or fat; and so ↓ مُزْحِفٌ. (TA.) And, accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed Ed-Dareer, [simply] Fatigued; (TA;) and so ↓ مُزْحِفٌ; applied to a camel: (K:) or the latter, so applied, signifies fatigued, and standing still with his owner: the former is applied to the male and to the female; and its pl. is زَوَاحِفُ: it is said to be also the name of a certain camel; but Th denies this. (TA.) زَاحِفَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

مَزْحَفٌ: see مَزْحَفَةٌ.

مُزْحِفٌ: see زَاحِفٌ, in three places. b2: سَحَابٌ مُزْحِفٌ (tropical:) Clouds moving slowly, because carrying much water; likened to fatigued camels. (TA.) مَزْحَفَةٌ a n. of place, sing. of مَزَاحِفُ, (TK,) which signifies The places of the creeping of serpents; (S, K, TA;) and the marks, or tracks, of the passage thereof: (TA:) and ↓ مَزْحَفٌ, likewise signifies the mark, or track, of a serpent, upon the ground; like مَسْحَفٌ. (TA in art. سحف.) b2: مَزَاحِفُ also signifies The places of fighting of a party, or people. (TA.) b3: and (tropical:) The places of pouring [of the water] of the clouds; (TA;) the places where falls the rain of the clouds. (K, TA. [In the CK, السَّحَابُ is erroneously put for السَّحَابِ.]) مِزْحَافٌ A camel wont, or accustomed, to become fatigued, (S, K, TA,) and to drag his foot, or the extremity of his foot, (S,) or to stand still with his owner: (TA:) or (tropical:) a she-camel that quickly becomes attenuated, or chafed, or abraded, or worn, in the sole of the foot: (A, TA:) pl. مَزَاحِيفُ (S, TA) and مَزَاحِفُ. (TA.)

زيف

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زيف

1 زَافَ, aor. ـِ (S, O, K,) inf. n. زَيْفٌ and زَيَفَانٌ (O, K) and زُيُوفٌ, (TA,) said of a camel, (S, TA,) and of a man, &c., (TA,) He walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side: (S, O, K:) or he went quickly, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side. (TA.) And زَافَتْ فِى مِشْيَتِهَا, said of a woman, She appeared as though she were turning round, or circling, in her gait. (Z, TA.) [This is app. from what next follows.] One says of a male pigeon, زاف عِنْدَ الحَمَامَةِ He dragged the tail, and impelled his fore part with his hinder part, and turned, or circled, around the female pigeon: (S, O, L, K, * TA:) and of a female pigeon one says, تَزِيفُ بَيْنَ يَدَىِ الحَمَامِ الذَّكَرِ, meaning She walks with boldness and presumptuousness before the male pigeon. (TA.) And a poet describing a battle says of it زَافَتْ, meaning The hinder part thereof impelled the fore part. (L, TA.) b2: زاف, (Kr, TA,) inf. n. زَيْفٌ, (Kr,) said of a building, (Kr, TA,) &c., (TA,) It was, or became, high. (Kr, TA.) A2: زافت الدَّرَاهِمُ, (S, MA, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (Msb,) inf. n. زَيْفٌ, (Msb,) or زُيُوفٌ, (Mgh, K,) for which the lawyers say زِيَافَةٌ, (Mgh,) The dirhems, or pieces of money, were bad: (MA, Msb:) or were rejected, or returned, (Mgh, K,) عَلَيْهِ [to him], (S, Mgh, K,) because of adulterating alloy therein: (Mgh, K:) or, accord. to the M, simply, were rejected, or returned; (TA;) [and] so ↓ زُيِّفَت. (Mgh.) A3: See also 2.

A4: زاف الحَائِطَ, (O, K,) inf. n. زَيْفٌ, (TA,) He leaped the wall; syn. قَفَزَهُ; (O, K;) said of a man. (O.) 2 تَزْيِيفٌ is said to signify primarily The separating, or setting apart, such [money] as is passable, or current, from such as is termed زَائِف: and hence, the rejecting [money], or returning [it]: and the making [it], or proving [it] to be, false, or spurious. (TA.) One says, زيّف الدَّرَاهِمَ, (S, MA, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَزْيِيفٌ, (Msb,) He made, (MA, K,) or pronounced, (K,) or showed, (Msb,) the dirhems, or pieces of money, to be bad, (MA, Msb,) or to be such as are termed زُيُوف; (K;) as also ↓ زَافَهَا. (Lh, K.) See also 1, near the end of the paragraph. b2: [Hence, التَّزْيِيفُ in relation to speech, or language: see 2 in art. رمل.] b3: And زيّفهُ, (Kr, TA,) inf. n. as above, (Kr,) (tropical:) He made his blood to be of no account, to go for nothing, unretaliated, or uncompensated by a mulct; or made it allowable to take, or shed, his blood: (TA:) or he made him to be contemptible, ignominious, base, or vile, in the estimation of others: (Kr, TA:) from دِرْهَمٌ زَائِفٌ

“ a bad dirhem, or piece of money. ” (TA.) 5 تزيّفت, said of a woman, [like تزيّقت,] She ornamented, or adorned, herself. (O.) b2: [Accord. to Freytag, تزيّف signifies It was adulterated: and in Har p. 612 it is expl. as signifying صار زيّفا فى احواله, which seems to have this or a similar meaning; زيّفا being app. a mistranscription for زَيْفًا or مُزَيَّفًا.]

زَيْفٌ: see زَائِفٌ, in four places.

A2: Also The إِفْرِيز, i. e., (Kr, TA,) the طَنَف, (Kr, O, K, TA,) [meaning the coping, or ledge, or cornice,] that protects a wall, (O, K, TA,) surrounding the upper part of the wall, (Kr,) or surrounding the walls at the top of a house: (TA:) or, as some say, (O, in the K “ and,”) the steps, or stairs, of places of ascent: (O, K:) or, as some say, (Kr, O, in the K “ and,”) i. q. شُرَفٌ [meaning acroterial ornaments forming a single member of a cresting of a wall, or of the crown of a cornice]: n. un. with ة. (Kr, O, K.) زَيَّافٌ, and with ة: see the next paragraph, in three places.

زَائِفٌ One who walks in the manner described in the first sentence of this art.; as also ↓ زَيْفٌ, which is an inf. n. used as an epithet: (TA:) [and so ↓ زَيَّافٌ, but properly in an intensive sense:] and ↓ زَيَّافَةٌ a she-camel proud and self-conceited [in her gait]. (S.) Hence, (TA,) الزَّائِفُ signifies The lion; as also ↓ الزَّيَّافُ; (O, K;) but the latter has an intensive meaning: (TA:) so called because of his proud and selfconceited walk. (O, TA.) A2: Also, and ↓ زَيْفٌ, (S, Kr, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) the latter an inf. n. used as an epithet, (Msb,) or, accord. to IDrd, this is a vulgar term, (O,) or bad, (K,) applied to a dirhem, or piece of money, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) to gold and to silver, (Har p. 369, referring to the latter word,) Bad: (Kr, Msb, and Har ubi suprà:) or such as are rejected, or returned, because of adulterating alloy therein: (Mgh, O, K:) or, as some say, such as are less bad than what are termed بَهْرَج, being such as are rejected by [the officers of] the government-treasury; whereas the بهرج are such as are rejected by the merchants, or traders: (Mgh:) the pl. is زِيَافٌ and أَزْيَافٌ, (O, K,) [the latter a pl. of pauc.,] or the pl. of ↓ زَيْفٌ is زُيُوفٌ, and the pl. of زَائِفٌ is زُيَّفٌ: (Mgh, * Msb:) accord. to some, the زُيُوف are such as are done over with a compound of quicksilver and sulphur. (Msb.) [It is implied in the Msb that ↓ زَيْفٌ is the more common term, though, as has been stated above, it is said by IDrd to be vulgar: and it is also applied to human beings: for ex.,] a poet says, تَرَى القَوْمَ أَشْبَاهًا إِذَا نَزَلُوامَعًا وَفِى القَوْمِ زَيْفٌ مِثْلُ زَيْفِ الدَّرَاهِمِ [Thou seest the people to be likes when they alight together; but among the people are bad like the bad of dirhems.] (TA.)

زهق

Entries on زهق in 16 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha, Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy, Ibn Sīda al-Mursī, Al-Muḥkam wa-l-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam, and 13 more

زهق

1 زَهَقَتْ نَفْسُهُ, and زَهِقَتْ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) the latter preferred by IKoot and Hr, but the former by A'Obeyd, (TA,) aor. ـَ (S, Msb, K, *) inf. n. زُهُوقٌ, (S, Mgh,) which is of both verbs, (S,) or this is of the former verb, and the inf. n. of the latter is زَهَقٌ, (Msb,) [but in the K it seems to be indicated, by its being said of the latter verb that it is of the class of سَمِعَ, that the inf. n. of this verb is زَهْقٌ,] His soul went forth, passed forth, or departed: (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA:) it perished: it died: (TA:) نَفْسُهُ ↓ اِنْزَهَقَتْ and اِنْزِهَاقُ الرُّوحِ are not of the [classical] language of the Arabs. (Mgh.) It is said in the Kur [ix. 55 and 86] وَتَزْهَقَ أَنْفُسُهُمْ وَهُمْ كَافِرُونَ [And that their souls may depart while they are unbelievers]. (S.) The primary meaning of زُهُوقٌ is The going forth, passing forth, or departing, with difficulty. (Bd in ix. 55.) b2: [Hence,] زَهَقَ الشَّىْءُ (tropical:) The thing perished, passed away, or came to nought; (Msb, K, TA;) became null, void, or of no effect. (K, TA.) And زَهَقَ البَاطِلُ (tropical:) What was false, or vain, passed away, or came to nought, (S, Msb, K, TA,) being overcome by the truth, or reality, or fact: or, accord. to Katádeh, by الباطل is here meant the devil. (TA.) b3: And زَهَقَ السَّهْمُ (S, Msb, K, TA) and زَهِقَ (Msb) (tropical:) The arrow passed beyond the butt, (S, Msb, K, TA,) and fell behind it: (TA:) or went swiftly: (Ham p. 23:) or the former has this meaning: and the latter is syn. with زَلِقَ [app. meaning it slid along the ground]. (JK.) b4: And زَهَقَ الفَرَسُ, aor. ـَ inf. n. زُهُوقٌ, (assumed tropical:) The horse preceded, went before, got before, outwent, or outstripped. (S, * Msb.) And زَهَقَتِ الرَّاحِلَةُ, inf. n. زُهُوقٌ (ISk, S, K) and زَهْقٌ, (TA as from the K, [but not in the CK nor in my MS. copy of the K,]) (tropical:) The saddle-camel preceded, went before, got before, outwent, or outstripped, the horses, or horsemen; (ISk, JK, * S, K, TA;) and ↓ انزهقت signifies the same. (JK.) and زَهَقَ فُلَانٌ, inf. n. زَهْقٌ and زُهُوقٌ, (tropical:) Such a one preceded, went before, &c.; (K, TA;) or زَهَقَ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا (tropical:) preceded us, went before us, &c., and preceded, &c., the horses, or horsemen; (TA;) and ↓ انزهق signifies the same. (K.) A2: زَهَقَ said of a bone, (S, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. زُهُوقٌ, Its marrow became compact and full; (S, K;) as also ↓ ازهق. (L, K.) And زَهَقَتِ الدَّابَّةُ, with the same aor. and inf. n., The beast was, or became, marrowy in the utmost degree, its marrow-bones being compacted and full. (TA.) b2: Also, said of marrow, It was, or became, compact and full. (S, K.) 2 زَهَّقَ see 2 in art. زرق: and see 4 below.3 زاهق الحَقُّ البَاطِلَ (TA [there expl. by زَهَقَه, a mistranscription, app. for ↓ أزْهَقَهُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) The truth, or reality, or fact, made what was false, or vain, to pass away, or come to nought.]) 4 ازهق نَفْسَهُ He (God) caused his soul to go forth, pass forth, or depart. (Mgh, Msb.) The phrase القَتْلُ إِزْهَاقٌ means (assumed tropical:) Slaughter is a cause of making the soul to come to nought, and to depart. (Mgh.) b2: [Hence,] ازهق البَاطِلَ (tropical:) He (God) caused what was false, or vain, to pass away, or come to nought. (S, K, TA.) See also 3. b3: And ازهق السَّهْمَ (S, K) مِنَ الهَدَفِ (K) (tropical:) He made the arrow to pass beyond the butt. (S, K, TA.) b4: And ازهقت الدَّابَّةُ السَّرْجَ (assumed tropical:) The beast shifted forward the saddle, and threw it upon its neck: (S, K:) and, or but, it is said to be with رَآء: [i. e. one says also, or correctly, accord. to some, أَرْهَقَتْهُ:] a rájiz says, أَخَافُ أَنْ تُزْهِقَهُ أَوْ يَنْزَرِقْ [(assumed tropical:) I fear that she may shift it forward, and throw it upon her neck, or it may shift backwards]: [thus, says J,] cited to me by Abu-lGhowth, with زَاى. (S.) [Accord. to my copy of the KL, ↓ تَزْهِيقٌ, inf. n. of زهّق, signifies (assumed tropical:) The shifting backwards of a camel's saddle from his back: see 2 in art. زرق.] b5: And ازهق فِى السَّيْرِ (assumed tropical:) He was quick [as though urging himself forward] in pace, or journeying. (K.) A2: ازهقهُ also signifies He filled it; (S, O, K;) namely, a vessel: (S, O:) but accord. to the L, he overturned it; i. e. a vessel. (TA.) A3: See also 1, near the end.7 إِنْزَهَقَ see 1, in three places. b2: One says also انزهقت الدَّابَّةُ (assumed tropical:) The beast leaped, or leaped upwards, (S,) or went forward, or preceded, (O, K,) in consequence of beating, or taking fright. (S, O, K.) And The beast fell into a deep place, or from a mountain; or fell from a mountain and died; syn. تَرَدَّتْ. (TA. [See the next paragraph.]) زَهَقٌ A low, or depressed, part of the ground. (S, O, K.) A hollow, or cavity, or deep hollow or cavity, in the ground; syn. وَهْدَةٌ: (JK, TA:) sometimes, or often, beasts fall into it, and die. (TA. [See 7.]) زَهِقٌ (tropical:) Light, and unsteady, or lightwitted; (S, K, TA;) applied to a man. (S.) A2: And A beast not exceeded in fatness. (TA.) زَهَقَى (assumed tropical:) A mare that precedes, or outgoes, the [other] horses, or the horsemen. (Sh, K.) هُمْ زُهَاقُ مِائَةٍ and زِهَاقُ مائة i. q. زُهَآءُ مِائَةٍ, (K, * TA,) i. e. They are of the number of a hundred. (TA.) زَهُوقٌ (tropical:) A thing passing away, or coming to nought; or that passes away, or comes to nought; as also ↓ زَاهِقٌ. (K, TA.) Hence, in the Kur [xvii. 83], إِنَّ البَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا, i. e. (tropical:) [Verily what is false, or vain,] is a thing that passes away, or comes to nought. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) A deep well; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ زَاهِقَةٌ; [in the TA زَاهِقٌ;] and in like manner both are applied to a place of destruction (مَتْلَفَةٌ); (JK;) and to a مَتْلَفَة [app. meaning a desert in which people perish] as meaning far-extending. (Ham p. 23.) And in like manner, (S,) the former is also applied [app. as an epithet] to a فَجّ [or road, or depressed road,] of an overpeering, or overhanging, mountain. (S, K.) b3: Also (tropical:) Light, or active; syn. خَفِيفٌ. (JK.) زَاهِقٌ Perishing, or dying. (Az, TA.) b2: See also زَهُوقٌ, in two places. b3: (tropical:) An arrow passing beyond the butt, and falling behind it: (Mgh, TA:) whence the saying, in a trad., إِنَّ حَابِيًا خَيْرٌ مِنْ زَاهِقٍ [expl. in art. حبو]. (TA.) b4: [(assumed tropical:) Preceding, or outgoing.] You say, جَآءَ زَاهِقًا (assumed tropical:) He came before, or in advance of, the horses, or horsemen. (JK.) And رَاحِلَةٌ زَاهِقَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A saddlecamel preceding, going before, getting before, outgoing, or outstripping, the horses, or horsemen. (S.) b5: (assumed tropical:) A man put to flight: (S, O, K:) pl. زُهَقٌ, (so in my copies of the S,) or زُهَّقٌ, (so in the O,) or زُهْقٌ and زُهُقٌ, with damm and with two dammehs. (K.) b6: (tropical:) Water running vehemently: (JK, K, TA:) and (assumed tropical:) a canal (خَلِيجٌ) running swiftly. (TA.) A2: Applied to a beast (دَابَّة), Fat, (JK, Az, S, K,) and marrowy: (S, K:) or marrowy, but not fat in the utmost degree: or having thin, or little, marrow: (TA:) and dry, or tough, (K, TA,) by reason of leanness; so says As: (TA:) and, (K,) or as some say, (JK,) very lean; (JK, K, TA;) Such that a foul odour is perceived arising from the meagreness of its flesh: (TA:) thus it bears two contr. meanings. (K.) b2: And, applied to marrow, Compact and full: (S, TA:) or, so applied, good in respect of fatness: and some say, i. q. رَارٌ [i. e. in a melting state, or corrupt, by reason of emaciation; or thin; &c.]: so that [thus applied also] it bears two contr. meanings. (JK.) In the saying of a rájiz, (S, TA,) namely, 'Omárah Ibn-Tárik, (TA,) وَمَسَدٍ أُمِرَّ مِنْ أَيَانِقِ لَسْنَ بِأَنْيَابٍ وَلَا حَقَائِقِ وَلَا ضِعَافٍ مُخُّهُنَّ زَاهِقُ accord. to Fr, it is in the nom. case, the poetry being what is termed مُكْفَأ, [by which is here meant having one rhyme made to end with kesreh (which is substituted for fet-hah by poetic license) and another with dammeh,] the poet meaning [And a rope, or many a rope, tightly twisted, of the fur of she-camels, that were not aged ones, nor such as had their teeth fallen out by reason of extreme age, nor weak,] but whose marrow was compact and full: [or, agreeably with an explanation given above from the JK, زاهق may mean in a melting state, &c.:] another explanation is, that زاهق here means ذَاهِب [going away]: (S, TA:) but, as Sgh says, the [right] reading is عِيسٍ عِتَاقٍ ذَاتِ مُخٍّ زَاهِقِ [meaning but of a reddish, or yellowish, or dingy, white hue, of generous race, having compact and full marrow]. (TA.) أُزْهُوقَةٌ sing. of أَزَاهِيق in the phrase فَرَسٌ ذَاتُ

أًزَاهِيقَ (tropical:) A mare having wonderful, or admirable, qualities in running: (A, TA:) or this means a mare having a swift running. (S, K.) b2: One says also, جَآءَ تِ الخَيْلُ أَزَاهِقَ and أَزَاهِيقَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [The horses, or horsemen, came] in troops in a state of dispersion. (A'Obeyd, TA.) b3: أَزَاهِيقُ is also the name of A horse of Ziyád Ibn-Hindábeh. (K.) مُزْهَقٌ Slain. (El-Muärrij, S.) مُزْهِقٌ Slaying, or a slayer. (El-Muärrij, S.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A man quick [as though urging himself forward] in his pace, or journeying. (S, TA.) b3: And (assumed tropical:) Loquacious. (JK.) مَزْهَقَةٌ [A cause of the departure of the soul: a word of the same class as مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ]. b2: [Hence,] one says of a camel which others strive in vain to overtake, هٰذَا الجَمَلُ مَزْهَقَةٌ لِأَرْوَاحِ المَطِىِّ (tropical:) [This camel is one that takes away the breath of the other beasts, or saddle-camels]. (A, TA.) رَجُلٌ مَزْهُوقٌ (assumed tropical:) A man who is straitened. (TA.)

زجل

Entries on زجل in 12 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār, Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ, Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha, and 9 more

زجل

1 زَجِلَ, (MA, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. زَجَلٌ, (MA, K, KL, and Har p. 240,) He uttered his voice, or a cry; or made a sound, or cry: (MA, KL:) or he raised his voice, (K, Har,) to evince emotion. (Har.) b2: [It seems to be indicated in the K that it signifies also He played, or sported: and He, or it (i. e. a company of men), raised cries, shouts, noises, a clamour, or confused cries or shouts or noises: and He trilled, or quavered, and prolonged his voice; or prolonged it, and modulated it sweetly. See the next paragraph.]

زَجَلٌ inf. n. of زَجِلَ: (MA, K:) [and used as a simple subst:] i. q. صَوْتٌ [as an inf. n., meaning The uttering of the voice, or of a sound, or cry: or, as a simple subst., a voice, sound, or cry]: (S:) or a high, or loud, voice: such have the angels when celebrating the praises of God: (TA:) [and] a vehement sound. (Ham p. 627.) [Hence,] سَحَابٌ ذُو زَجَلٍ Clouds having a thundering: (TA:) [and] so ↓ سَحَابٌ زَجِلٌ. (S.) b2: A clamour; or a confusion, or mixture, of cries or shouts or noises, or of crying or shouting or noise. (K.) b3: [A low, or faint, sound: hence,] زَجَلُ الجِنِّ means عَزِيفُهَا [i. e. The low, or faint, sound of the jinn, or genii, that is heard by night in the deserts; and said to be a sound like drumming: or the sound of the winds in the atmosphere, imagined by the people of the desert to be the sound of the jinn]. (TA.) b4: A trilling, or quavering, and prolonging of the voice; or a prolonging of the voice, and modulating it sweetly. (K.) A poet likens it to the voice of one urging on camels by singing to them, and to the playing on a reedpipe. (Sb, TA.) b5: Also Play, or sport. (K.) b6: And A species of verse, well known; [a vulgar sort of unmeasured song or balled;] in this sense post-classical. (TA.) زَجِلٌ Raising his voice; as also ↓ زَاجِلٌ. (K.) b2: [Hence,] سَحَابٌ زَجِلٌ: see زَجَلٌ And غَيْثٌ زَجِلٌ Rain accompanied by the sound of thunder. (TA.) And نَبْتٌ زَجِلٌ A plant, or herbage, in which, or among which, the wind makes a sound. (K.) زَجْلَةٌ: see the next paragraph, in two places.

زُجْلَةٌ The sound, or voice, or noise, of men; as also ↓ زَجْلَةٌ. (K.) b2: And A company, a collection, or an assemblage: (K:) or a party, or company, of men, (S, K,) peculiarly: (TA:) as also ↓ زَجْلَةٌ: (K:) pl. of the former زُجَلٌ. (S.) زَاجِلٌ: see زَجِلٌ. b2: It is also applied to a song, or singing, [meaning Loud,] in the saying, وَهُوَ يُغَنِّيهَا غِنَآءً زَاجِلَا [And he sings to her, or to them (probably referring to camels), with a loud song or singing]. (TA.)
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