شفه

1 شَفَهَهُ, aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. شَفْهٌ, (TK,) He struck his شَفَة [i. e. lip]. (K.) b2: شُفِهَ, [said of a water, (assumed tropical:) It had many lips of drinkers applied to it; i. e. it had many drinkers: (see its part. n.:) and] said of food, (tropical:) It had many eaters: (K, TA:) or [as a consequence thereof] it became little in quantity. (TA.) b3: And [hence], said of property, (assumed tropical:) It had many seekers. (K.) b4: And, said of a man, (assumed tropical:) He had many askers, or beggars, (K, TA,) so that they consumed what he had, or possessed. (TA.) [Or (assumed tropical:) He was importuned by begging, so that what he had, or possessed, was consumed: as pass. of what next follows.] b5: شَفَهَهُ (assumed tropical:) He importuned him by begging, so that he consumed what he had, or possessed. (S, K.) And one says, كَادَ العِيَالُ يَشْفَهُونَ مَالِى (tropical:) The family, or household, almost consumed my property. (K, * TA.) b6: Also, (S, K,) inf. n. شَفْهٌ, (S,) i. q. شَغَلَ. (S, K.) You say, شَفَهَنِى عَنْ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) He, or it, occupied me so as to divert me from such a thing; syn. شَغَلَنِى. (S.) And نَحْنُ نَشْفَهُ عَلَيْكَ المَرْتَعَ, and المَآءَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) We occupy the place of pasturage so as to keep it from thee, and the water, (نَشْغَلُهُ عَنْكَ,) i. e. it is sufficient for us without being more than sufficient. (S, TA.) And شُفِهَ عَنْكَ مَا عِنْدَنَا (assumed tropical:) What we had was employed so as to be kept from thee; syn. شُغِلَ عَنْكَ. (JK.) A2: IAar mentions the phrase شَفَهْتُ نَصِيبِى, with fet-h, without explaining it; but Th says that it is سفهت, [i. e.

سَفِهْتُ, with س, and with kesr to the ف,] meaning “ I forgot [my share, or portion]. ” (TA.) 3 شافههُ, (K,) inf. n. مُشَافَهَةٌ, (TA,) He put his lip (شَفَتَهُ) near to his [another's] lip. (K, TA.) And كَلَّمَهُ مُشَافَهَةً (Msb, TA) and مُشَافَاةً (Msb) He spoke to him putting his lip near to his lip: (TA:) [or mouth to mouth; for,] accord. to J, (TA,) مُشَافَهَةٌ signifies the talking with another mouth to mouth: (S, TA:) but the usage of the inf. n. of a verb different from that which it is thus made to qualify is, as Sb says, restricted to instances that have been heard: the phrase كَلَّمَهُ مُفَاوَهَةً [has not been heard, and therefore] is not allowable. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] شافه البَلَدَ, and الأَمْرَ, (tropical:) He was, or became, or drew, near to the town, or country, and the affair. (A, K, TA.) شَفَةٌ, (T, S, Msb, K, &c.,) also pronounced ↓ شِفَةٌ, (K,) is a word of which the third, i. e. the final, radical letter is elided; (T, Msb;) and accord. to some, (Msb,) this letter is ه, (T, Msb, K, TA,) so accord. to all of the Basrees, (TA,) the word being originally ↓ شفهة, (T, S, Msb, TA,) i. e. شَفَهَةٌ, (so in copies of the S,) or شَفْهَةٌ, like كَلْبَهٌ and سَجْدَةٌ, (Msb,) because it has the former of the dims. mentioned below, and the first of the pls. mentioned below, with ه, (S, Msb, *) and it is sometimes pronounced شفهة; (T, TA;) or, as some assert, the deficient letter is و, (S, Msb,) the word being originally شَفْوَةٌ, like شَهْوَةٌ, (Msb,) because it has the last of the pls. mentioned below, (S, [but omitted in one of my copies,] and Msb, *) and the latter of the two dims. mentioned below; (Msb;) both of which assertions are stated on the authority of Kh; (IF, Msb;) [The lip of a human being;] شَفَتَا الإِنْسَانِ meaning the two covers of the mouth of the human being: (K:) it is [properly] only of a human being: (Msb:) but it is sometimes, metaphorically, of the horse: and in like manner, of the دَلْو [or leathern bucket] as used by A'Obeyd; but ISd has expressed a doubt whether he had heard this from the Arabs: (TA:) the pl. is شِفَاهٌ (S, Msb, K, &c.) and شَفَهَاتٌ (Lth, Msb, TA) and شَفَوَاتٌ, (Lth, S, Msb, K,) the second of which is said by Lth to be more agreeable with analogy than the third, though the third is more common, as being likened to سَنَوَاتٌ [pl. of سَنَةٌ]: (Az, (Msb, TA:) and Ks mentions the phrase, إِنَّهُ لَغَلِيظُ الشِفَاهِ [as meaning Verily he is thick in the lip], as though the term شَفَةٌ applied to every portion of the شَفَة: (TA:) the dim. is ↓ شُفَيْهَةُ (S, Msb) and شُفَيَّةٌ. (Msb.) b2: [Hence,] هُمْ أَهْلُ الشَّفَةِ (assumed tropical:) They are those who have the right of drinking with their lips (بِشِفَاهِهِمْ) and of watering their beasts. (Mgh.) b3: And بِنْتُ شَفَةٍ (tropical:) A word; (S, Msb, K, TA;) as also ذَاتُ شَفَةٍ. (TA.) One says, مَا كَلَّمْتُهُ بِبِنْتِ شَفَةٍ (assumed tropical:) I spoke not to him a word: (S:) or مَا كَلَّمَنِىبِنْتَ شَفَةٍ (assumed tropical:) He spoke not to me a word: (TA:) and مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْهُ بِنْتَ شَفَةٍ (assumed tropical:) I heard not from him a word: (Msb:) and مَا كَلَّمْتُ فُلَانًا ذَاتَ شَفَةٍ (assumed tropical:) I spoke not to such a one a word. (Az, T voce ذُو.) b4: And فُلَانٌ خَفِيفُ الشَّفَةِ (tropical:) Such a one is a person who asks, or begs, little of people: (ISk, S, K, * TA:) and also, (tropical:) importunate, (K, TA,) one who asks, or begs, much of people: (TA:) thus having two contr. meanings. (K.) b5: And لَهُ فِى النَّاسِ شَفَةٌ (assumed tropical:) He has praise, or commendation, among the people: (S:) and لَهُ فِينَا شَفَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ (tropical:) He has a good report, or reputation, among us. (A, K, TA.) and إِنَّ شَفَةَ النَّاسِ عَلَيْكَ لَحَسَنَةٌ (tropical:) Verily the people's speaking of thee is good. (Lh, TA.) And مَا

أَحْسَنَ شَفَةَ النَّاسِ عَلَيْكَ (tropical:) How good is the people's speaking of thee! (K, TA.) b6: See also شَفًا, in art. شفو and شفى.

شِفَةٌ, and see the next preceding paragraph.

شَفَهَةٌ or شَفْهَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

شَفَهِىٌّ and شَفِىٌّ are both allowable as rel. ns. of شَفَةٌ [i. e. as meaning Labial: and so, accord. to some, is شَفَوِىٌّ]. (S.) الحُرُوفُ الشَّفَهِيَّةُ (Kh, T, S, Msb, K) and الشَّفَوِيَّةُ, (Kh, T, Msb,) or the latter is not allowable, (S,) [i. e. The labial letters,] are ب and ف and م: (T, S, K:) [or, accord. to Lumsden (Ar. Gr. p. 28), ب and م and و: and, it seems, accord. to some, (see De Sacy's Gr. Ar. sec. ed. i. 27,) ج and ش and ض, which is strange:] so called because their place of utterance is from the شَفَة, without any action of the tongue. (T, TA.) شُفَيْهَةٌ: dim. of شَفَةٌ, q. v.

شُفَاهِىٌّ A man (S, Mgh) large [in some copies of the S thick] in the شَفَتَانِ [or lips]; (S, Mgh, K;) as also ↓ أَشْفَهُ. (Mgh. [But see this latter below.]) شَافِهٌ Thirsty, (K, TA,) not finding water enough to moisten his lip: like سَافِهٌ, mentioned in art. سفه. (TA.) أَشْفَهُ: see شُفَاهِىٌّ. b2: [Accord. to some,] أَشْفَى signifies A man whose lips do not close together: (S, K:) but there is no proof of its correctness: (S:) the fem. in this sense is شَفْيَآءُ. (TA in art. شفى.) مَشْفُوهٌ (tropical:) A water at which there are many lips (شِفَاه TA, and Har p. 669,) of those coming to drink, (Har,) so that it has become little in quantity; (TA;) or water at which are many people: (S, K: *) or water that is sought: or, as some say, forbidden to those who come to drink of it because of its being little in quantity. (TA.) b2: and hence, (Har ubi suprà,) (tropical:) Food upon which are [put] many hands; (K, TA, Har;) having many eaters: or that has become little in quantity. (TA.) b3: And (assumed tropical:) Property sought by many: (TA:) [or little in quantity; for] one says, أَتَانَا وَ أَمْوَالُنَا مَشْفُوهَةٌ (tropical:) He came to us when our possessions were little in quantity. (K, TA.) b4: And (assumed tropical:) A man of whom people have asked, or begged, much, (S,) or importuned by begging, (K,) so that all that he had, or possessed, is consumed: (S, K:) like مَثْمُودٌ, and مَضْفُوفٌ, and مَكْثُورٌ عَلَيْهِ: (so in one of my copies of the S:) and sometimes it means (assumed tropical:) one whose household and guests have consumed his property. (IB, TA.)

توب

1 تَابَ, (T, A,) or تاب إِلَى اللّٰهِ, (S, M, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. تَوْبَةٌ and تَوْبٌ, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) both of these signifying the same, (T, S, M, Msb,) the ة in the former being added to denote the fem. gender, or, as some say, the former is a n. un. like ضَرْبَةٌ, (Msb,) or, as Akh says, تَوْبٌ is pl. [or a quasi-pl. n.] of تَوْبَةٌ, like as عَوْمٌ is of عَوْمَةٌ, (S,) or like as لَوْزٌ is of لَوْزَةٌ, and this is the opinion of Mbr, (M,) and تَابَةٌ, (M, K,) which is for تَوْبَةٌ, (M,) and مَتَابٌ (S, M, A, K) and تَتْوِبَةٌ, (S, * M, * K,) of the measure تَفْعِلَةٌ, (S, M,) an anomalous form, (TA,) syn. with تَوْبَةٌ, mentioned in the Book of Sb; (S;) [He repented; or repented toward God; as will be shown by what follows:] originally, he returned unto God, (T, TA,) مِنْ كَذَا and عَنْ كَذَا [from such a thing]: (TA:) or he returned, [or returned unto God,] (S, M, A, K,) from sin, (S,) or from his sin, (A,) or from disobedience (M, K) to obedience: (M:) or تَابَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ signifies he desisted from his sin: (Msb:) تَوْبَةٌ signifies the repenting of sin; i. e. the grieving for it, or regretting it, with the confession of having no excuse for the commission thereof. (Kull.) It is said in a trad., النَّدَمُ تَوْبَةٌ [Repentance is] a returning from sin. (S.) The time of El-Islám is termed زَمَنُ التَّوْبَةِ as being The time of returning from [or repenting of] the belief in a plurality of gods. (A.) A poet says, تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ فَتَقَبَّلْ تَابَتِى

وَصُمْتُ رَبِّى فَتَفَبَّلْ صَامَتِى

[I have repented toward Thee, and accept Thou my repentance; and I have fasted, O my Lord, and accept Thou my fast]; meaning تَوْبَتِى and صَوْمَتِى. (M.) b2: تَابَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ God returned to forgiveness towards him; became again forgiving to him: (T:) or disposed, or adapted, him to repentance, or returning from sin or disobedience: (S, K:) or reverted from severity to mildness towards him: or returned to him with his favour, or grace, and his acceptance, or approbation; became again propitious to him: (A, K:) all these meanings are correct: (TA:) or God forgave him, and saved him from acts of disobedience: (Msb:) or accepted his repentance: (Jel in ii. 35 &c.:) or returned towards him with mercy, and acceptance of repentance. (Bd ibid.) 10 استتابهُ He proposed to him that he should return [to obedience unto God], (T, A,) and repent of that which he had committed: (T:) he asked him to return from sin, or disobedience: (S, K:) or he asked him to desist from his sin. (Msb.) تَابُوتٌ, originally تَوَبُوتٌ, the ت not being the characteristic of the fem. gender, (Z, MF, TA,) of the measure فَعَلُوتٌ, and meaning A chest, or box, from التَّوْبُ, because what is taken out from it continually returns to it: (AAF, IJ, Z, MF, TA:) or originally تَابُوَةٌ; (S, K; [in the CK تَأْبُوَةٌ;]) the و being made quiescent, and the ة changed into ت: (S, K:) [in Chald. ?: in Hebr. ?:] it signifies also the ribs, with what they contain, as the heart and the liver &c.; as being likened to a chest, or box; (IAth, TA in art. تبت;) the chest, breast, or bosom: (A in that art.:) or [primarily] the ribs, with what they contain, as the heart &c.: and [hence] applied to a chest, or box: (Towsheeh, MF, TA:) also written تَبُوتٌ. (K in art. تبت.) [It is generally applied in the present day to a bier: a coffin: and an oblong case that is placed over a grave: the pl. is تَوَابِيتُ.] El-Kásim Ibn-Maan says that it is the only word in the Kur-án in respect of which the dialects of Kureysh and the Ansár differ; the former pronouncing it تَابُوتٌ; (S;) and the latter, تَابُوهٌ. (S, K.) But IB denies that its last letter is originally ة, the fem. termination; asserting the final ت to be a radical letter, the measure of the word to be فَاعُولٌ, and its proper place in art. تبت: he says that the final ت is changed in a case of pause, but not generally, into ه, as is that of الفُرَات [the Euphrates], in which the ت is not the fem. termination. (L, TA.) Yousay, مَا أَوْدَعْتُ تَابُوتِى شَيْئًا فَقَدْتُهُ, meaning I have not deposited in my bosom anything of knowledge, or science, that I have lost. (A in art. تبت.) تَوَّابٌ, applied to a man, [One who repents much or often;] returning from disobedience to obedience [to God] (M, K, TA) much or often. (TA.) b2: And applied to God, One who returns [much or often] to forgiveness towards his servant who returns unto Him: (T:) or who [often] disposes, or adapts, to repentance, or returning from sin or disobedience; or reverts from severity to mildness; or returns with his favour or grace, &c.: (A, K: [see 1, last sentence:]) or who forgives much, and save from acts of disobedience. (Msb.) تَائِبٌ [Repenting of sin: (see 1:) originally,] returning from disobedience (M, K) to obedience to God. (M.)

ثبن

1 ثَبَنَ الثَّوْبَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. ثَبْنٌ and ثِبَانٌ, He folded the extremity of the garment, and sewed it; (S, K;) [he made a tuck in the garment, to shorten it;] like خَبَنَهُ: (S:) or, (K,) i. e. ثَبَنَ, (TA,) he put a thing into the receptacle [thereof] and carried it before him; as also ↓ تثبّن: and in like manner, he folded and sewed over a thing the doubled upper border of his trousers in front: (K, * TA:) or شَيْئًا ↓ تثبّن has this last meaning; and signifies also he put a thing into a ثِبَان [q. v.] and carried it before him: (S:) and ثَبَنَ فِى ثَوْبِهِ, aor. and inf. ns. as above; (M;) and فِيهِ ↓ اثبن, (M, K, as in the CK,) accord. to [some of] the copies of the K اثتبن, but the former is the right reading; (TA;) and ↓ ثبّن; (M;) he put a thing into the receptacle [thereof] and carried it before him [in his garment]: (M, K: *) [see also أَخْبَنَ:] or you say, فِى ثَوْبِهِ ↓ ثبّنهُ he made it a ثِبَان (or thing carried [before him]) in his garment: (T:) and ↓ تثبّن ثِبَانًا he made a receptacle in which he [so] carried a thing before him. (T.) 2 ثَبَّنَ see 1, in two places.4 أَثْبَنَ see 1.5 تَثَبَّنَ see 1, in three places.

ثُبْنَةٌ: see what next follows, in four places.

ثِبَانٌ A receptacle, such as when one folds the skirt of his shirt and puts in it a thing and carries it before him: (S:) or the part, of the garment, which is the place wherein one carries, when he wraps it around his body, or puts a portion thereof under his right shoulder and another portion over his left shoulder, then folds before him a part of it, and puts a thing in it; as also ↓ ثُبْنَةٌ: (M:) or the part, of one's garment, which is the place wherein he carries; folding its extremity, and sewing it, before him, and then putting in it some dates or other things: as also ↓ ثَبِينٌ and ↓ ثُبْنَةٌ: (K:) and the extremity of the [garment called] رِدَآء when one folds it before him and sews it [and puts a thing in it to carry]: (M:) or a receptacle in which one carries a thing before him; (T:) and ↓ ثُبْنَةٌ, of which the pl. is ثُبَانٌ, (T,) or its pl. is ثُبَنٌ, like as the pl of خُبْنَةٌ [which has a similar meaning] is خُبَنٌ, (Har p. 427,) the doubled upper border of the trousers or waist-wrapper, in which one carries [before him] fruit and other things: [see also خُبْنَةٌ:] or, as some say, ثِبَانٌ does not signify a receptacle, but dates that are put and carried in a receptacle or some other thing: and sometimes what a man carries in his sleeve; and ↓ ثُبْنَةٌ signifies only what one carries before him, that is little in quantity: and what is great is not called ثِبَانٌ. (T.) It is said in a trad. of 'Omar, إِذَا مَرَّ أَحَدُكُمْ بِحَائِطٍ فَلْيَأْكُلْ مِنْهُ وَلَا يَتَّخِذْ ثِبَانًا [When any one of you passes by a garden of palm-trees, let him eat thereof, but not take for himself, or make, a ثبان]: i. e., when a necessitous hungry person passes by a man's garden of palm-trees, he may eat of their dates what will repel his hunger. (T. [See also another reading voce خُبْنَةٌ.]) And one says, قَدِمَ فُلَانٌ بِثِبَانٍ فِى ثَوْبِهِ مَا أَدْرِى مَا هُوَ [Such a one came with a ثبان in his garment: I know not what it was]. (T.) ثَبِينٌ: see ثِبَانٌ.

مَثْبَنَةٌ A bag in which a woman puts her mirror and apparatus: (M, K:) of the dial. of ElYemen. (M.)

وسط

1 وَسَطَ القَوْمَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. وَسْطٌ (S, Msb, K) [and وُسُوطٌ (as shown below)] and سِطَةٌ, (S, K,) He sat, [or was, or became,] in the middle, or midst, of the people, or company of men; (K;) or among them: (TA;) i. q. ↓ توسّطهُمْ; (S, K;) or بَيْنَهُمْ ↓ توسّط: (Msb:) and in like manner, وَسَطَ المَكَانَ [he was, or became, or sat, in the middle, or midst, of the place]: (Msb:) and وَسَطَ الشَّىْءَ, and ↓ وسّطهُ, and ↓ توسّطهُ, he was, or became, in the middle, or midst, of the thing: and [in like manner] وُسُوطُ الشَّمْسِ signifies السَّمَآءَ ↓ تَوَسُّطُهَا [The sun's being, or becoming, in the middle, or midst, of the sky]. (M.) b2: وَسَطَ الشَّىْءَ also signifies He, or it, was, or became, in the best part of the thing, most remote from the two extremes. (TA.) And وَسَطَهُ He alighted, or took up his abode, in, or among, the best, or most generous, thereof. (M.) and وَسَطَ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ, and فِى قَوْمِهِ, inf. n. وَسَاطَةٌ, The man occupied, or held, a middle place, [meaning the best place, or one of the best places,] among his people, in respect of truth and equity. (Msb.) And وَسَطَ قَوْمَهُ فِى الحَسَبِ, aor. ـِ inf. n. سِطَةٌ, [He held a middle, or good, or the best, rank among his people in regard of grounds of pretension to respect.] (M.) And وَسُطَ فِى

حَسَبِهِ, [aor. ـْ inf. n. وَسَاطَةٌ and سِطَةٌ, [He held a middle, or good, or the best, rank in regard of his grounds of pretension to respect;] (M, TA;) and وَسَطَ signifies the same; (M;) and so does ↓ وسّط, (M, TA,) inf. n. تَوْسِيطٌ. (TA.) [See وَسَطٌ, below.]2 وسّطهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَوْسِيطٌ, (S, K,) He put it in the middle, or midst. (S, K.) b2: And [so in the S, but in the K “ or,”] He cut it [in the middle, or midst, i. e.] in two halves. (S, K.) [See the pass. part. n., below.] b3: [In the Kur, c. 5,] some read, فَوَسَّطْنَ بِهِ جَمْعًا [which may mean And have put in the midst, thereby, a company of the enemy: or have divided in two halves, thereby, &c.: or have thereby become in the midst of a company of the enemy]: (S, TA:) others read فَوَسَطْنَ. (TA.) See 1, first sentence. b4: وسّط فى حَسَبِهِ: see 1, last sentence.5 تَوَسَّطَ see 1, first sentence, in four places. b2: توسّط بَيْنَ النَّاسِ He mediated, or interceded, between the men, or people, for the purpose of accommodation; from وَسَطَ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ and فِى

قَوْمِهِ, explained above; (Msb;) or from وَسَاطَةٌ; (S;) he made mediation, or intercession, (عَمِلَ الوَسَاطَةَ,) between them. (K.) b3: توسّط also signifies He took what was of a middle sort, between the good and the bad. (K.) وَسْط, with the س quiescent, is an adv. n.; [as such written وَسْطَ, meaning In the middle of: in the midst of; or among;] (S, M, IB, Mgh, K;) and it is for this reason that it has its middle letter quiescent, (S, IB,) like بَيْنَ (IB) with which it is syn.; (IB, Msb;) [for] it may be used in any case in which بَيْنَ may be substituted for it; (S, IAth, K;) and, like بَيْنَ, it does not denote a part of the thing denoted by the noun to which it is prefixed, wherein differing from ↓ وَسَط. (S, IB, K.) You say, جَلَسْتُ وَسْطَ القَوْمِ (S, IB, Msb) I sat [in the middle of, or in the midst of,] or among, the people, or company of men, (IB, Msb;) not being one of them. (IB.) And وَسْطَ رَأْسِهِ دُهْنٌ [In the middle of his head is oil]; not meaning a component part of the head. (IB.) And it is said in a trad.

الجَالِسُ وَسْطَ الحَلْقَةِ مَلْعُونٌ [The sitter in the midst of the ring is cursed]: for he must of necessity turn his back towards some of those who surround him, and so displease them; wherefore they curse him and revile him. (IAth.) b2: It may not [properly] be used as a decl. n., (IB,) i. e. as an inchoative, (Mgh,) nor as an agent, nor as an objective complement; (IB, Mgh) &c.; thus, also, differing from ↓ وَسَط; unless it have the adverbial particle [فِى] prefixed to it; in which case it has the sense of وَسَط, and you say, جَلَسْتُ فِى وَسْطِ القَوْمِ and فى وَسْطِ رَأْسِهِ دُهْنٌ [like as you say جَلَسْتُ وَسْطَ القَوْمِ and وَسْطَ رَأْسِهِ دُهنٌ, explained above]: and sometimes it is used as a subst., preserving the quiescence [and the adverbial form], like as بَيْنَ is used as a subst. though virtually an adv. n., in cases like that where it is said in the Kur, [vi. 94,] لَقَدْ تَقَطَّعَ بَيْنَكُمْ [meaning مَا بَيْنَكُمْ, or, as explained in the Expos. of the Jel., وَصْلُكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ]: (IB:) or وَسْط is sometimes used for ↓ وَسَط, improperly; (S;) or it may be so used; (Msb;) or it is so used by poetic license; (M;) or, as some say, each of them may take the place of the other; and this seems the most likely: (IAth:) or one says وَسْط, with sukoon, only, of that whereof the component parts are separate, or distinct, (IAth, K *,) such as a number of men, and beasts of carriage, &c.; (IAth;) and ↓ وَسَط, (IAth,) or both, (K,) of that whereof the component parts are united, (IAth, K *,) such as a house, and the head, (IAth,) or such as a ring: (K:) it is related, as on the authority of Th, that الشَّىْءِ ↓ وَسَطُ and وسْطُهُ [both meaning The middle, or midst, of the thing] are said when the thing is solid; but when its component parts are separate, or distinct, the word is وَسْطٌ, with sukoon, exclusively. (M.) وَسَطٌ [The middle, midst, or middle part, of a thing; i. e.,] properly, the part of which several lateral, or outer, portions are equal; as, for instance, the middle finger: but also meaning the part which is surrounded, or enclosed, on its several sides, although unequally: (Msb:) or the part that is between the two sides or extremities of a thing; (M, IB, Mgh, K;) [or the part, or point, that is between every two opposite extremities of a thing; and properly when equidistant;] as, for instance, the centre of a circle: (Mgh:) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ, (M, K,) which is [likewise] a subst., like أَفْكَلٌ and أَزْمَلٌ [but imperfectly decl. because originally an epithet]: (M:) وَسَطٌ has its middle letter with fet-h in order that it may agree in measure with its contr., which is طَرَفٌ; the like agreement being frequent: (IB:) and it is only used in cases in which بَيْنَ may not be substituted for it, herein [and in other respects, mentioned in the next preceding paragraph,] differing from وَسْط: (S, IB, K:) [respecting the similar and dissimilar usages of وَسَط and وَسّط, sufficient observations have been made in the next preceding paragraph, which see throughout, and more especially in its latter part:] the pl. of وَسَطٌ is أَوْسَاطٌ; and that of its syn. ↓ أَوْسَطُ is أَوَاسِطُ; or this may be a pl. of ↓ وَاسِطٌ, and originally وَوَاسِطُ. (M.) You say, جَلَسْتُ فِى

وَسَطِ الدَّارِ [I sat in the middle, or middle part, of the house]; (S, Mgh, Msb;) because وَسَط is a subst. (S.) And إِتَّسَعَ وَسَطُهُ [The middle, or middle part, thereof, became wide]. (Mgh, Msb.) And ضَرَبْتُ وَسَطَ رَأْسِهِ [I smote the middle, or middle part, of his head]. (Mgh, * Msb.) And كَسَرْتُ وَسَطَ الرُّمْحِ [I broke the middle, or middle part, of the spear]. (IB.) And وَسَطُهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ طَرَفِهِ [The middle, or middle part, thereof is better than the extremity]. (Mgh, Msb.) And خَيَرُ الأُمُورِ أَوْسَاطُهَا The best of affairs, or actions, or cases, are such of them as are between two extremes. (M. [See R. Q. 1, in art. حق.]) It is sometimes put in the accus. case as an adv. n.; as in the saying, جَلَسْتُ وَسَطَ الدَّارِ; but this is an instance of departure from the original usage; and [the meaning is جَلَسْتُ فِى وَسَطِ الدَّارِ signifying as explained above; so that] it is not here syn. with بَيْنَ, like as وَسْطَ is. (IB.) b2: It is also used as an epithet: (IB, Mgh:) [as such signifying Middle; intermediate; midway, or equidistant, between the two extremities or extremes; in place, or position: but in this sense superseded in usage by ↓ أَوْسَطُ and ↓ وَاسِطٌ and ↓ مُتَوَسِّطٌ: and in time; but in this sense also superseded in usage by ↓ أَوْسَطُ:] middling; of middle sort, kind, or rate; (Msb;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ (S, * M, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ مُتَوَسِّطٌ (M, Mgh, Msb) and ↓ وَسُوطٌ (M, TA) [and ↓ وَسِيطٌ]; between good and bad; (Msb, TA;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ: (Msb:) conforming, or conformable, to the just mean; just; equitable: (Zj, S, K:) good; (Zj, M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ وَسِيطٌ: (M:) most conforming, or conformable, to the just mean; most just; most equitable; applied to what is so of a thing; (S, M, K;) whatever it be; (S, K;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطَ: (M:) best; (Msb;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ: (S, * Msb, K *:) most generous: (M:) and when used as an epithet, it is applied alike to a masc., fem., sing., dual, and pl., subst.: (Mgh:) the fem. of ↓ أَوْسَطُ is وُسْطَى; (Mgh, Msb;) and the pl. masc. أَوَاسِطُ; and pl. fem. وُسَطٌ. (Msb.) Hence, (Msb,) ↓ الإِصْبَعُ الوُسْطَى (S, Msb, K) The middle finger. (Msb.) And ↓ اليَوْمُ الأَوْسَطُ [The middle day]. (Msb.) And ↓ اللَّيْلَةُ الوُسْطَى [The middle night. (Msb.) And ↓ العَشَرَةُ الأَوَاسِطُ, meaning The [ten middle] days. (Msb.) And العَشْرُ

↓ الوُسَطُ, meaning The [ten middle nights: not ↓ العَشْرُ الأَوْسَطُ; for this is a vulgar mistake, into which relaters of traditions have fallen; or it may be a mistake of transcription. (Msb.) and ↓ الصَّلٰوةُ الوُسْطَى, (M, Mgh, &c.,) mentioned in the Kur, [ii. 239,] (M, K,) meaning The middle prayer (Bd, TA) between the other prayers, (Bd,) or between the prayers of the night and the day; (TA;) or the most excellent of them in particular: (Bd:) i. e. the prayer of the afternoon; ('Alee Ibn-Abee-Tálib, I'Ab, and others, Mgh, Bd, K;) because the prophet said, on the day of the Ahzáb, “they have diverted us from الصلوة الوسطى, the prayer of the afternoon: ” (Bd:) or the prayer of daybreak; (also said to be on the authority of 'Alee, Mgh, Bd, K;) because it is between the prayers of the night and the day; (Bd;) for the saying of the prophet mentioned above does not contravene this and other assertions, since what is meant in the trad. is not what is meant in the Kur: (K:) or, (M, K,) accord. to Abu-l-Hasan, (M,) the prayer of Friday; (M, K;) because it is the most excellent of the prayers; (M;) and he who says otherwise errs, unless he trace up the assertion to the prophet: (M, K:) these three opinions are of the strongest authority; (B;) and the first is that which commonly obtains: (Mgh:) or the prayer of noon; (Mgh, Bd, Msb, K;) because it is in the middle of the day: (Bd:) or the prayer of Friday on the day thereof; but on other days the prayer of noon: (K, and also said to be on the authority of 'Alec:) or the prayer of sunset: (Mgh, Bd, K:) or the prayer of nightfall: (Bd, K:) or [the night-prayer called] الوِتْر: (K:) or the prayer of the breaking of the fast: (K:) or the prayer of sacrifices: (K:) or the prayer of the period called the ضُحَى: (K:) or the prayer of the congregation: (K:) or the prayer of fear: (K:) or the prayers of nightfall and daybreak together: (K, and said to be on the authorities of 'Omar and 'Othmán:) or the prayers of daybreak and the afternoon together: (K:) or any of the five prayers; because before it are two prayers and after it are two prayers: (K:) or all the divinely-appointed prayers: (K:) or certain prayers not particularized: (K:) or prayer of middling length, between long and short. (K.) Hence also, شَىْءٌ وَسَطٌ A middling thing; a thing of middle sort or kind; (Msb;) between good and bad; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ: (Msb:) and in like manner it is applied to a male slave, and a female slave, (Msb,) and two male slaves, and two sheep or goats. (Mgh.) And مَا تُطْعِمُونَ ↓ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ

أَهْلِيكُمْ, in the Kur, [v. 91,] Of the middle sort of that which ye give for food to your families, (Mgh, Msb,) between what is prodigal and what is niggardly. (Mgh.) And ↓ النَّمَطُ الأَوْسَطُ The middle class of men: occurring in a saying of 'Alee, cited in full in art. غط. (M.) And عَلِّمْنِى

↓ دِينًا وَسُوطا Teach thou to me a religion of the middle sort: occurring in a saying of an Arab of the desert to El-Hasan, cited in full voce فَرَطَ. (M, TA.) And جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أَمَّةً وَسَطًا, in the Kur, [ii. 137,] (S, Mgh, Msb,) [We have made you to be a nation] conforming, or conformable, to the just mean; just; equitable: (Zj, S, IB, Bd, K:) or good. (Zj, Bd, Msb, K.) And مَرْعًى

وَسَطٌ Choice pasturage. (M.) And رَجُلٌ وَسَطٌ A good man; as also ↓ وَسِيطٌ: (M:) or a man having good grounds of pretension to respect. (TA.) And فِى قَوْمِهِ ↓ فُلَانٌ وَسِيطٌ, (S, K *,) or بَيْنَهُمْ, (as in some copies of the K,) Such a one is the best of his people (↓ أَوْسَطُهُمْ) in race, and the highest of them in station. (S, K.) and الدَّارِ وَالحَسَبِ ↓ فُلَانٌ وَسِيطُ [Such a one is of good quality, or of the best quality, in respect of tribe, and of grounds of pretension to honour]. (Lth.) And هُوَ مِنْ وَسَطِ قَوْمِهِ, and ↓ من أَوْسَطِهِمْ, He is of the best of his people. (Msb.) And in like manner, هُوَ مِنْ وَسَطِ الشَّىْءِ, and ↓ من أَوْسَطِهِ, It is of the best of the thing. (Msb.) And قَالَ

↓ أَوْسَطُهُمْ in the Kur, lxviii. 28, The best of them said: (Jel:) or the most rightly directed, of them, to the truth: (Msb:) or it means ↓ أَوْسَطُهُمْ رَأْيًا [the most remote, of them, from either extreme, in judgment]; or سِنًّا [in age]. (Bd.) وَسُوطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in two places.

وَسِيطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in five places. b2: A mediator, or an intercessor, for the purpose of accommodation, (O, K,) between people, (O,) or between two persons engaged in mutual altercation or litigation. (K.) وَسَاطَةٌ [originally an inf. n.: (see 1:) b2: and hence, as a subst., Mediation, or intercession]. (S, K: see 5.) b3: وَسَاطَةُ الدَّنَانِيرِ The best of deenárs. (TA.) وَسِيطَةٌ A mean, or means: pl. وَسَائِطُ.]

وَاسِطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as a subst., and also as an epithet. b2: وَاسِطُ الكُورِ, (Lth, S, K,) or الرَّحْلِ, (ISh, Az, M,) and ↓ وَاسِطَتُهُ, (Lth, M, K,) and ↓ مَوْسِطَتُهُ, (Lh, M, [or perhaps ↓ مُوسِطَتُهُ, corresponding to ↓ مُؤْخِرَتُهُ,]) The fore-part of the camel's saddle: (S, K:) accord. to Lth, (Az, TA,) the part, of the camel's saddle, which is between the تَادِمَة and the آخِرَة; (Az, M, L;) but this is a mistake; (Az, L;) for the واسط of the camel's saddle is one of the شَرْخَانِ, (ISh, Az, L,) which are its two extremities, [or upright pieces of wood,] like the قَرَبُوسُانِ of the horse's saddle, (Az, L,) between which the rider sits; (ISh, Az, L;) it is the extremity which is next to the head of the camel; (Az, L;) the tall forepart next to the breast of the rider, (ISh, Az, L,) against which the breast of the rider sometimes strikes; (TA, in art. نحز;) the آخِرةَ being the extremity which is next to the tail of the camel; (Az, L;) the hinder part of the saddle, which is its tall and broad piece of wood that is against (تُحَاذِى) the head of the rider: (ISh, Az, L:) the former of these is not called واسط as being a middle part between the آخرة and the قادمة, as Lth says; nor has the camel's saddle any [part called] قادمة. (Az, L.) b3: الوَاسِطُ also signifies The piece of wood that is in the middle, between the two pieces called the عِضَادَتَانِ, in the yoke that is upon the neck of a bull which draws a cart or the like. (L in art. عضذ.) وَاسِطَةٌ The jewel that is in the middle of a قِلَادَة [or necklace], which is the best thereof; (S;) the large pearl (دُرَّة) that is in the middle thereof, which is the most precious of the beads thereof. (L.) b2: [In modern Arabic, A means of doing a thing. You say, بِوَاسِطَةِ كَذَا By means of such a thing. b3: Also, An intermediary, interposer, or agent between parties; a go-between.] b4: See also وَاسِطٌ. b5: هُوَ فِى

وَاسِطَةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) He is in a good condition of life. (Er-Rághib, TA, in art. حف.) أَوْسَطُ; fem. وُسْطَى; pl. masc. أَوَاسِطُ; pl. fem.

وُسَطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as a subst., in two places; and as an epithet, throughout.

مُوسَطٌ What is in the middle of a بَيْت [i. e. house, or tent, &c.], particularly. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) مَوْسِطَةٌ, or مُوسِطَةٌ: see وَاسِطٌ.

قَتَلَ فُلَانًا مُوَسَّطًا He slew such a one cut [in the middle, or midst,] in two halves. (TA.) [This mode of slaughter, termed تَوْسِيطٌ, was often practised under the rule of the Egyptian Sultáns; many instances thereof being mentioned by ElMakreezee and other historians. See De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 468.]

مُتَوَسِّطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in two places.

ودع

1 وَدُعَ

, (S, K,) inf. n. وَدْعٌ and دَعَةٌ, (TA,) He (a man, S,) or it, (a thing, TA,) became still, quiet, or at rest; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ اِتَّدَعَ, (K, TA,) [quasi-] inf. n. تُدْعَةٌ and تُدَعَةٌ. (TA.) You say to a man, ↓ اِنَّدَعْ and ↓ تَوَدَّعْ meaning Be thou grave, staid, steady, sedate, or calm. (TA.) See also 1; and art. وذر. b2: وَدُعَ and وَدَعَ, inf. n. وَدَاعَةٌ, He was, or became, in a state of ease, and ampleness of the means or circumstances of life. (Msb.) b3: دَعْ: see an ex. voce آذَى: it may be rendered, in different cases, Leave thou, or let alone, or say nothing of: see بَلْهَ. b4: دَعْنِى مِنْ كَذَا Let me alone and cease from such a thing: and exempt thou me, or excuse me, from such a thing. b5: دَعْ عَنْكَ كَذَا Dismiss thou from thee such a thing. See خُذْ عَنْكَ. b6: دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى لَا يَرِيبُكَ: see art. ريب. b7: دَعْ مَا زَيْدٌ: see سِىٌّ in art. سوى. b8: وَدَعَ used as a pret.: see an ex. voce زَائِلَةٌ, in art. زول.2 وَدَّعَهُ

, (MA,) inf. n. تَوْديعٌ, (PS,) He bade farewell to him. (MA, PS.) 3 وَادَعَهُ

, inf. n. مُوَادَعَةٌ, and subst. وِدَاعٌ, He made peace or reconciled himself, with him: (Msb:) [the inf. n.] مُوَادَعَةٌ is syn. with مُصَالَحَةٌ

because it is مُتَارَكَةٌ [a mutual leaving, or leaving unmolested]. (Mgh.) b2: مُوَادَعَةٌ is also syn. with تَرْكٌ; as also ↓ دَعَةٌ: (TA:) so that وَادَعَهُ signifies He left him: but more correctly, he left him, being left by him; like تَارَكَهُ, and خَالَاهُ; and this is the primary meaning.5 تَوَدَّعَ see 1.6 تَوَادَعَا They two made peace, or became reconciled, each with the other. (K.) 7 إِنْوَدَعَ see 1.8 اِتَّدَعَ

: see 1: he acted, or proceeded, with moderation, without haste or hurry, in his pace or journeying. (M in art. اون.) 10 اِسْتَوْدَعَهُ مَالًا He intrusted him with property; intrusted to him property; gave property to him in trust, or as a deposit. (Msb.) and اِسْتَوْدَعَهُ وَدِيعَةً He asked him to keep, preserve, guard, or take care of, a deposit. (K.) دَعَةٌ Ease; repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; tranquillity; syn. خَفْضٌ (S. Mgh, K, TA) and رَاحَةٌ (Mgh, Msb, TA) and سُكُونٌ; (TA;) and ampleness of circumstances (سَعَةٌ) in life: (K:) or دَعَةٌ is syn. with راحة and سكون; but خَفْضٌ signifies “ ampleness of the circumstances ” (سَعَهٌّ) of life, and “ plentifulness and pleasantness ” thereof: [see an ex. of both, voce خَفْضٌ]. (El-Marzookee and MF, art. خفض.) A2: See 1 and 3.

وَدَعَةٌ A cowry; Cypræa: see an ex. cited voce سَمَّ.

وَدِيعَةٌ A thing committed to the trust and care of a person; a trust; a deposit. (Mgh, Msb.) See 10.

وَدَاعٌ [Gravity, steadiness:] i. q. سَكِينَةٌ, [like ↓ مَوْدُوعٌ,] as also وَقَارٌ. (S, L, in art. سكن.) b2: And Valediction. (S, Msb.) مِيدَعٌ and مِيدَعَةٌ A garment, or piece of cloth, used as a repository for clothes. (TA.) مَوْدُوعٌ

: see وَدَاعٌ, and see a verse cited voce مَصْدَق.

مُسْتَوْدَعٌ A depository: see a verse cited voce ظِلٌّ.

زن

أ1 زَنَأَ فِى الجَبَلِ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K, *) inf. n. زَنْءٌ and زُنُوْءٌ, (S, Msb, K,) He ascended the mountain. (S, Msb, K.) b2: زَنَأَ إِلَيْهِ, (S, K,) aor. as above, (K,) inf. n. زُنُوْءٌ (S, K) and زَنْءٌ, (K,) He (a man, S) had recourse to it (a thing, TA) for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging. (S, K.) b3: and He approached it, or drew near to it; (K, TA;) namely, a thing. (TA.) [Hence,] زَنَأَ الخَمْسِينَ, (S,) or لِلْخَمْسِينَ, inf. n. زَنْءٌ, (TA,) He drew near to the [age of] fifty [years]. (S, TA.) b4: زَنَأَ said of the shade, (S, K,) It became short; (S;) it contracted, shrank, or drew together. (K.) b5: Said of a place, (TA in art. زنو,] It was, or became, strait, or narrow; and زَنَا, without ء, inf. n. زُنُوٌّ, is a dial. var. thereof in this sense. (ISd, K, TA ?? all in art. زنو.) b6: Said of the urine, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (S, TA,) or ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. زُنُوْءٌ (S, Msb, TA) and زَنْءٌ, (TA,) It became retained, or suppressed. (S, Msb, K, TA.) b7: Also He, or it, clave to the ground. (K.) b8: He hastened, or made haste. (K.) b9: And He was, or became, affected with a lively emotion, either of joy or of grief; syn. طَرِبَ. (K.) A2: See also 2, in two places: and see 4. b2: زَنَأَ is also expl. in the K as signifying خَنَقَ [He throttled, or strangled]: but [SM says,] I have not found any of the leading lexicologists to have mentioned this, unless it be a mistranscription for حَقَنَ [a meaning assigned to this verb below: see 4]. (TA.) 2 زَنّأ عَلَيْهِ, inf. n. تَزْنِئَةٌ, He straitened, or oppressed, him; made strait, or close, to him; (S, K, TA;) as also عليه ↓ زَنَأَ. (TA.) The verb occurs without ء, written زَنَّى, by poetic license, in a saying of a rájiz cited in art. شدخ, as an ex. of the word شَادِخَةٌ. (S.) And عَلَيْهِ الحِجَارَةَ ↓ زَنَؤُوا occurs in a trad. as meaning They made the stones strait, or close, to him, or upon him. (TA.) 4 ازنأهُ فِى الجَبَلِ He made him to ascend the mountain. (Msb, K, * TA.) b2: ازنأهُ also signifies أَلْجَأَهُ: (S, K, TA:) so in the saying, ازنأهُ إِلَى الأَمْرِ [He constrained him to have recourse to, or to do, the thing]. (TA.) b3: ازنأ بَوْلَهُ He retained, or suppressed, his urine; (Msb, K; *) as also ↓ زَنَأَهُ; the latter verb being trans. as well as intrans. (Msb.) زَنَآءٌ Straitness, or narrowness; syn. ضِيقٌ. (S. [So in my copies: perhaps a mistranscription for ضَيِّقٌ, a meaning mentioned in the next sentence.]) A2: Strait, or narrow; syn. ضَيِّقٌ: you say مَكَانٌ زَنَآءٌ [A strait, or narrow, place]: and بِئْرٌ زَنَآءٌ [A narrow well]: so in the Fáïk. (TA.) b2: Short (S, K) and compact, or contracted: (K:) applied to a man: and to shade. (S.) b3: Retaining, or suppressing, his urine; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ زَانِئٌ. (Msb.) So in a trad. in which it is said that a man is forbidden to pray when he is زنآء; (S, TA;) or where it is said that the prayer of one who is ↓ زَانِئ will not be accepted: (Msb:) or the latter word in this case means one who is ascending a mountain; because he has not full power [to pray], or because he is straitened by being out of breath. (TA.) A3: Also, [app. because of its narrowness,] A grave. (TA.) زَنِىْءٌ A small skin for water or milk. (K.) [See also زَنِىٌّ, in art. زنو.]

زَانِئٌ: see زَنَآءٌ, in two places.

أَزْنَأُ More, or most, strait: so in the saying كَانَ لَا يُحِبُّ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا أَزْنَأَهَا [He used not to love, of worldly enjoyments, or blessings, save the more, or most, strait thereof]. (MF.)

زوج

2 زوّج شَيْئًا بِشَىْءٍ, and زوّجهُ إِلَيْهِ, [inf. n. تَزْوِيجٌ,] He coupled, or paired, a thing with a thing; united it to it as its fellow, or like. (TA.) So in the Kur [xliv. 54 and lii. 20], زَوَّجْنَاهُمْ بِحُورٍ عِينٍ

We will couple them, or pair them, [with females having eyes like those of gazelles:] (S, Mgh, K, TA:) the meaning is not the تَزْوِيج commonly known, [i. e. marriage,] for there will be no [such] تزويج in Paradise. (MF, TA.) And so in the Kur [lxxxi. 7], وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ and when the souls shall be coupled, or paired, or united with their fellows: (TA:) i. e., with their bodies: (Bd, Jel:) or, each with its register: (Bd:) or with its works: (Bd, TA:) or the souls of the believers with the حُور, and those of the unbelievers with the devils: (Bd:) or when each sect, or party, shall be united with those whom it has followed. (TA.) And so in the phrase, زَوَّجْتُ إِبِلِى I coupled, or paired, my camels, one with another: (A:) or زَوَّجْتُ بَيْنَ الإِبِلِ I coupled, or paired, every one of the camels with another. (TA.) So too in the Kur [xlii. 49], أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ ذُكْرَانًا وَإِنَاثًا Or He maketh them couples, or pairs, males and females: or, accord. to AM, maketh them of different sorts [or sexes], males and females: for b2: تَزْوِيجٌ signifies [also] The making to be of different sorts or species [&c.]. (TA.) b3: زَوَّجْتُهُ امْرَأَةً, (T, S, A, * Mgh, Msb, K,) thus the Arabs say accord. to Yoo (S, Mgh) and ISK, (Mgh,) making the verb doubly trans. by itself, [without a particle,] meaning I married him, or gave him in marriage, to a woman; (Msb, TA;) as also بِامْرَأَةٍ; (A, K;) Akh says that this is allowable [app. as being of the dial. of Azd-Shanooäh (see 5)]: (Msb, TA:) [when the verb is trans. by means of بِ, it generally has the meaning expl. in the first sentence of this art.:] زَوَّجْتُ مِنْهُ امْرَأَةً is not of the language of the Arabs: (T, Mgh, TA:) [but see a similar phrase in a verse cited in art. حصن, conj. 4:] the lawyers say, زَوَّجْتُهُ مِنْهَا [meaning I married him to her]; but this is a phrase for which there is no reasonable way of accounting, unless that it is accord. to the opinion of those who hold that مِنْ may be redundant in an affirmative proposition, or that of those who hold that it may be substituted for بِ. (Msb.) 3 زاوجهُ, [inf. n. مُزَاوَجَةٌ and زِوَاجٌ] It, or he, was, or became, a couple, or pair, with it, or him: or made a coupling, or pairing, with it, or him. (MA.) [And زَاوَجَا They two formed together a couple, or pair.] b2: [And زاوجا, inf. n. as above, They married each other.] You say, هُذَيْلٌ يُزَاوِجُ عِكْرِمَةَ [The tribe of Hudheyl intermarry with that of 'Ikrimeh]. (A. [See also 6.]) b3: زاوج بَيْنَهُمَا and ↓ ازوج (tropical:) [He made them two (referring to sentences or phrases) to have a mutual resemblance in their prose-rhymes, or in measure: or to be connected, each with the other; or dependent, each on the other]. (A, TA.) See also 8, in three places.4 أَزْوَجَ see the next preceding paragraph.5 تَزَوَّجْتُ امْرَأَةً, (T, S, A, * Mgh, Msb, K,) thus the Arabs say accord. to Yoo (S, Mgh) and ISK, (Mgh,) meaning I married a woman; i. e., took a woman in marriage; took her as my wife; (Msb, TA;) as also بِامْرَأَةٍ; (A, * K;) or this is rare; (K;) Akh says that it is allowable; (Msb, TA;) and it is said to be of the dial. of AzdShanooäh, (S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) by Fr; (S, TA;) but accord. to Yoo (S, Mgh) and ISK, (Mgh,) it is not of the language of the Arabs. (T, S, Mgh.) And تزوّج فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ (A, Msb, TA) He married, or took a wife, among the sons of such a one. (Msb, TA.) And تزوّج إِلَيْهِ i. q. خَاتَنَهُ [He allied himself to him by marriage]. (K in art. ختن.) b2: [Hence,] تزوّجهُ النَّوْمُ (assumed tropical:) Sleep pervaded him; syn. خَالَطَهُ. (K.) 6 تزاوج القَوْمُ and ↓ اِزْدَوَجُوا The people, or party, married one another; intermarried. (TA. [See also 3.]) b2: See also the next paragraph, in three places.8 اِزْدَوَجَتِ الطَّيْرُ [The birds coupled, or paired, one with another]. (TA.) b2: See also 6. b3: اِزْدَوَجَا and ↓ تَزَاوَجَا [and ↓ زَاوَجَا], said of two phrases, or sentences, (A, TA,) (tropical:) They bore a mutual resemblance in their prose-rhymes, or in measure: or were connected, each with the other; or dependent, each on the other: and in like manner, ازدوج and ↓ تزاوج, said of a phrase, or sentence, (tropical:) It was such that one part of it resembled another in the prose-rhyme, or in the measure: or consisted of two propositions connected, each with the other; or dependent, each on the other: (TA:) اِزْدِوَاجٌ and ↓ مُزَاوَجَةٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ تَزَاوُجٌ (S) are syn.: (S, A, * K:) ازدواج signifies A conformity, or mutual resemblance, [with respect to sound, or measure,] of two words occurring near together; as in the phrase مِنْ سَبَأٍ بِنَبَأٍ

[in the Kur xxvii. 22]: (Kull p. 31:) and this is also termed ↓ مُزَاوَجَةٌ and مُحَاذَاةٌ and مُوَازَنَةٌ and مُقَابَلَةٌ and مُؤَازَاةٌ. (Marginal note in a copy of the Muzhir, 22nd نوع.) زَاجٌ [Vitriol;] a well-known kind of salt; (K, TA;) called شَبٌّ يَمَانِىٌّ; [but see شَبٌّ;] which is a medicinal substance, and one of the ingredients of ink: (Lth, TA:) [pl. زَاجَاتٌ, meaning species, or sorts, of vitriol; namely, green, or sulphate of iron, which is an ingredient in ink, and is generally meant by the term زاج when unrestricted by an epithet; blue, or sulphate of copper; and white, or sulphate of zinc:] it is a Pers\. word, (S,) arabicized, (S, K,) originally زاگ. (TA.) زَوْجٌ primarily signifies A sort of thing of any kind [that is one of a pair or couple]: and زَوْجَانِ signifies a pair, or couple, i. e. any two things paired or coupled together, whether they be likes or contraries: زَوْجٌ signifying either one of such two things: (Az, TA:) or, accord. to 'Alee Ibn-'Eesà, a sort of thing [absolutely]: (Mgh:) or a sort of thing having its like, (El-Ghooree, Mgh, Msb,) as in the case of species; (Msb;) or having its contrary, (El-Ghooree, Mgh, Msb,) as the moist and the dry, and the male and the female, and the night and the day, and the bitter and the sweet; (Msb;) though sometimes applied to any sort of thing; and to a single thing: (El-Ghooree, Mgh:) or it is applied to a single thing only when having with it a thing of the same kind; (Mgh, Msb;) زَوْجَانِ signifying a pair, or couple, of such things: (Mgh:) the pl. is أَزْوَاجِ: (TA:) you say زَوْجَانِ مِنْ حَمَامٍ and زَوْجَا حَمَامٍ [A pair of pigeons]: (A:) and اِشْتَرَيْتُ زَوْجَى حَمَامٍ [I bought a pair of pigeons], meaning a male and a female: (S:) and زَوْجَا نِعَالٍ [A pair of sandals]: (S, A:) and in like manner زَوْجَيْنِ is used in the Kur xi. 42 and xxiii. 28; (S;) meaning a male and a female: (Bd, Jel:) or, accord. to the M, زَوْجٌ signifies one of a pair or couple: and also a pair or couple together: (TA:) and in like manner says AO, (Mgh, Msb,) and IKt, and IF: (Msb:) and ISh says that it signifies two; (Mgh;) and so says IDrd: (Msb:) so that you say, هُمَا زَوْجٌ as well as هُمَا زَوْجَانِ [meaning They two are a pair, or couple]; (S, K, TA;) like as you say, هُمَا سَوَآءٌ and هُمَا سِيَّانِ: (S, TA:) and عِنْدِى زَوْجُ نِعَالٍ, meaning [I have] two [sandals]; and زَوْجَانِ, meaning four: (Msb:) or زَوْجُ حَمَامٍ as meaning a male and a female [of pigeons] is a phrase which should not be used; one to which the vulgar are addicted: (TA:) IAmb says, the vulgar are wrong in thinking that زَوْجٌ signifies two; for the Arabs used not to employ such a phrase as زَوْجُ حَمَامٍ, but used to say زَوْجَانِ مِنَ الحَمَامِ, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) meaning a male and a female; (TA;) and زَوْجَانِ مِنَ الخِفَافِ, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) meaning the right and the left [of boots]: (TA:) nor did they apply the term زَوْجٌ to one of birds, like as they applied the dual, زَوْجَانِ, to two; but they applied the term فَرْدٌ to the male, and فَرْدَةٌ to the female: (Mgh, Msb:) Es-Sijistánee, also, says that the term زَوْجٌ should not be applied to two, neither of birds nor of other things, for this is a usage of the ignorant; but to every two, زَوْجَانِ: (Msb:) Az says that the grammarians disapprove the saying of ISh that زَوْجٌ signifies two of any things, (Mgh, * TA,) and that زَوْجَانِ مِنْ خِفَافٍ signifies [Two pairs of boots, or] four [boots]; for زَوْجٌ with them signifies one [of a pair or couple]: a man and his wife [together] are termed زَوْجَانِ: and ثَمَانِيَةَ أَزْوَاجٍ in the Kur [vi. 144 and xxxix. 8] means Eight ones [of pairs or couples]: the primary meaning of زَوْجٌ being that first mentioned in this paragraph; (TA:) in the Kur xxii. 5 and 1. 7 [it seems to be implied that it means pair or couple; but more probably in these instances] it means sort, or species: (Bd, Jel:) it is also expl. by the word لَوْنٌ [used in this last sense]: (T, TA;) in the Kur xxxviii. 58, its pl. أَزْوَاجٌ means أَلْوَانٌ and أَنْوَاعٌ [i. e. sorts, or species] of punishment: F explains the sing. as meaning لَوْنٌ مِنَ الدِّيبَاجِ وَنَحْوِهِ [a sort, or species, of silk brocade and the like]; but his restricting the signification by the words من الديباج ونحوه is not right, as is shown by a citation, in the T, of a verse of El-Aashà, in which he uses the phrase كُلُّ زَوْجٍ مِنَ الدِّيبَاجِ [every sort, or species, of silk brocade], as an ex. of زوج in the sense of لون. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] A woman's husband: and a man's wife: in which latter sense ↓ زَوْجَةٌ is also used; (S, M, A, Mgh, * Msb, K; *) as in a verse of El-Farezdak cited in art بول, conj. 10; (S, Mgh;) but it is disallowed by As; (TA;) and the former word is the one of high authority, (Mgh, Msb,) and is that which occurs in the Kur, in ii. 33 and vii. 18, (S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) and in iv. 24, (Mgh, TA,) and in xxxiii. 37: (Mgh:) AHát says that the people of Nejd call a wife ↓ زَوْجَةٌ, and that the people of the Haram use this word: but ISk says that the people of El-Hijáz call a wife زَوْجٌ; and the rest of the Arabs, ↓ زَوْجَةٌ: the lawyers use this latter word only, as applied to a wife, for the sake of perspicuity, fearing to confound the male with the female: (Msb:) the pl. of زَوْجٌ is أَزْوَاجٌ (Msb, K *) and زِوَجَةٌ; (K;) and the pl. of ↓ زَوْجَةٌ is زَوْجَاتٌ (A, Mgh, Msb) and أَزْوَاجٌ also; (A, Msb;) and أَزَاوِيجُ occurs [as a pl. pl., i. e. pl. of أَزْوَاجُ,] in a verse cited by ISk. (TA in art. نأج.) b3: [Hence also,] A consociate, an associate, or a comrade: (A:) its pl. in this sense is أَزْوَاجٌ, (S, A, K,) occurring in the Kur xxxvii. 22. (S, A.) b4: And A fellow, or like: pl. أَزْوَاجٌ: in this sense, each one of a pair of boots is the زوج of the other; and the husband is the زوج of the wife; and the wife, the زوج of the husband. (TA.) You say, عِنْدِى مِنْ هٰذَا أَزْوَاجٌ I have, of this, fellows, or likes. (TA.) b5: As used by arithmeticians, (Mgh, Msb,) contr. of فَرْدٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) i. e. it signifies An even number; a number that may be divided into two equal numbers; (Msb;) as, for instance, four, and eight, as opposed to three, and seven: (Mgh:) pl. أَزْوَاجٌ. (S, Mgh.) One says زَوْجٌ أَوْ فَرْدٌ [Even or odd?], like as one says خَسًا أَوْ زَكًا [or rather زَكًا أَوْ خَسًا] and شَفْعٌ أَوْ وِتْرٌ. (S, Mgh.) b6: Also A [kind of cloth such as is termed] نَمَط [q. v.]: or silk brocade; syn. دِيبَاجٌ: (TA:) or a نَمَط that is thrown over the [kind of vehicle called]

هَوْدَج. (S, K, TA.) زِيجٌ: see art. زيج.

زَوْجَةٌ: see زَوْجٌ, in four places, in the latter half of the paragraph.

زَوْجِيَّةٌ and ↓ زَوَاجٌ [The marriage-state, or simply marriage]: the latter is a subst. from زَوَّجَ, [i. e. a quasi-inf. n.,] like سَلَامٌ from سَلَّمَ, and كَلَامٌ from كَلَّمَ. (Msb.) You say, بَيْنَهُمَا حَقُّ الزَّوْجِيَّةِ and ↓ الزَّوَاجِ [Between them two is the right of the marriage-state, or of marriage]: (A, Msb:) and الزِّوَاجِ is also allowable as [an inf. n. of 3,] coordinate to المُزَاوَجَة. (Msb.) زَوَاجٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

زَائِجَةٌ: see art زيج.

مِزْوَاجٌ A woman who marries often: (S, K:) one who has had many husbands. (K.)

زور

1 زَارَهُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. زِيَارَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and زَوْرٌ (S, A, K) and مَزَارٌ (S, Msb, K) and زُوَارَةٌ (Ks, S) or زُوَارٌ; (K;) and ↓ ازدارهُ, (S, A, TA,) of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ from الزِّيَارَةُ, (S, TA,) is syn. with زَارَهُ; (A, TA;) [He visited him: lit.] he met him with his زَوْر [i. e. chest, or bosom]: or he repaired to his زَوْر, i. e. direction: (B, TA:) [or] he inclined towards him: (TA:) [see also زَوِرَ:] or he repaired to him: (A:) or he repaired to him from a desire to see him. (Msb.) b2: [Hence,] زَارَ شَعُوبَ (tropical:) [lit., He visited death; i. e., he died]. (TA.) [See 4.]

A2: زَارَهُ, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. زِوَارٌ, (TA,) He bound upon him (namely a camel) the rope called زِوَار, q. v. (K.) A3: زَوِرَ, aor. ـْ inf. n. زَوَرٌ, He, or it, inclined. (TA.) [App. always used in a proper, not a tropical, sense. See زَوَرٌ below.] b2: He had the kind of distortion termed زَوَرٌ [which see, below]. (TA.) 2 زوّرهُ, (A, K,) inf. n. تَزْوِيرٌ, (S,) He honoured him; namely, a visiter; treated him with honour, or hospitality; (S, A, K;) made account of his visit; (A;) treated him well, and acknowledged his right as a visiter; (TA;) slaughtered for him, and treated him with honour or hospitality. (Az.) A2: زوّر الشَّهَادَةَ He annulled the testimony; (K, TA;) impugned and annulled it. (TA.) b2: El-Kattál says, وَنَحْنُ أُنَاسٌ عُودُنَا عُودُ نَبْعَةٍ

صَلِيبٌ وَفينَا قَسْوَةٌ لَا تُزَوَّرُ [And we are men whose wood of which our bows are made is hard wood of a neb'ah, and in us is hardiness not to be impugned and denied]: Aboo-'Adnán says, [perhaps reading نُزَوَّرُ, which may be the correct reading,] that he means, we are not to be calumniated, because of our hardness, or hardiness, nor to be held weak. (TA.) b3: زوّر نَفْسَهُ He stigmatized himself by the imputation of falsehood. (K.) [See also other explanations, below.] b4: زوّر كَلَامَهُ (assumed tropical:) He falsified his speech; he embellished his speech with lies; syn. زَخْرَفَهُ. (Msb.) [See also below.] b5: زوّر الكَذِبَ, (K,) inf. n. تَزْوِيرٌ, (S,) (tropical:) He embellished the lie. (S, K, TA.) b6: زوّر شَيْئًا (tropical:) He removed, or did away with, the obliquity of a thing; (TA;) he rectified, adjusted, or corrected, it; (IAar, S, Msb, K;) whether good or evil; (IAar, Msb;) he beautified, or embellished, it. (Az, S, K.) b7: زوّر كَلَامًا (tropical:) He made speech right and sound, (As,) prepared it, (As, Msb,) and measured it, (As,) فِى نَفْسِهِ in his mind, (Msb,) before he uttered it: (As:) he rectified, adjusted, or corrected, it; and beautified, or embellished, it; as also ↓ تزوّرهُ, occurring in a verse of Nasr. Ibn-Seiyár. (TA.) And [in like manner] زوّر الحَدِيثَ (tropical:) He rectified, or corrected, the story, narrative, or tradition, removing, or doing away with, its obliquity: and ↓ تزوّرهُ he did so (زِوّرهُ) to himself. (A.) b8: رَحِمَ اللّٰهُ امْرَأً زَوَّرَ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ, a saying of El-Hajjáj, May God have mercy upon a man who rectifies, or corrects, himself, against himself: (S, * TA:) or, as some say, who stigmatizes himself by the charge of falsehood against himself: or who accuses himself against himself: like as you say, أَنَا أُزَوِّرُكَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ I accuse thee [of wrong] against thyself. (TA.) A3: تَزْوِيرٌ is also syn. with تَشْبِيهٌ [The likening a thing to another thing; &c.]. (TA.) A4: زوّر said of a bird, inf. n. as above, His crop (حَوْصَلَتُهُ) became high: (Az, TA:) or became full. (TA.) 4 ازارهُ He incited him, or made him, to visit. (S, K.) You say أَزَرْتُهُ غَيْرِى I made him, or caused him, to visit another, not myself. (A.) b2: أَزَرْتُهُ شَعُوبَ (tropical:) I made him to visit death; [i. e., I killed him.] (TA.) [See 1.] b3: أَنَا أُزِيرُكُمْ ثَنَائِى (tropical:) [I will introduce you, or your name, in my eulogy; meaning I will praise you]. (A.) and أَزَرْتُكُمْ قَصَائِدِى (tropical:) [I have introduced you, or the mention of you, in my odes]. (A.) 5 تزوّر He said what was false; spoke falsely. (A.) A2: See also 2, in two places.6 تزاوروا They visited one another. (S, A, K.) You say, بَيْنَهُمْ تَزَاوُرٌ Between them is mutual visiting. (A.) b2: See also 9, in two places.8 اِزْدَارَ: see 1.

A2: Also, accord. to Aboo-'Amr El-Mutarriz, He swallowed a morsel, or mouthful; like اِزْدَرَدَ. (TA in art. زرد.) 9 ازورّ عَنْهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. اِزْوِرَارٌ; (S, A;) and ↓ ازوارّ, (S, A, K,) inf. n. اِزْوِيرَارٌ; (S;) and ↓ تزاور; (S, A, Msb, K;) He declined, or turned aside, from it. (S, A, * Msb, K.) ↓ تَزَّاوَرُ, in the Kur xviii. 16, is a contraction تَتَزَاوَرُ: (S;) تَزْوَرُّ is another reading. (TA.) b2: فِى صَدْرِهِ ازْوِرَارٌ In his breast, or chest, is crookedness, curving, or distortion. (A.) 10 استزارهُ He asked him to visit him. (S, A, * K.) 11 إِزْوَاْرَّ see 9.

زَارٌ: see زَارَةٌ.

زَوْرٌ: see زَائِرٌ, in three places. b2: Also A camel having the hump inclining. (TA.) b3: And, with ة, A she-camel that looks from the outer angle of her eye, by reason of her vehemence and sharpness of temper: (K, * TA: [see زَوْرَةٌ below: and see also أَزْوَرُ:]) and a strong and thick she-camel. (TA.) b4: And فَلَاةٌ زَوْرَةٌ A desert not of moderate extent, or not easy to traverse. (TA.) A2: The direction of a person to whom one repairs. (B.) b2: The breast, or chest: (TA:) or its upper, or uppermost, part: (S, A, Mgh:) in a horse, narrowness in this part is approved, and width in the لَبَان; as the poet 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Suleymeh says, making a distinction between these two parts: (S:) or its middle: or the elevated part of it, to the shoulder-blades: or the part where the extremities of the breast-bones meet together: (K:) or the whole of the breast of the camel: pl. أَزْوَارٌ. (TA.) Hence, بَنَاتُ الزَّوْرِ The ribs and other parts around the breast. (TA.) [Hence also, app. from the action of the camel when he lies down,] أَلْقَى زَوْرَهُ (tropical:) [lit. He threw his breast upon the ground;] he remained, stayed, or abode. (A.) b3: The lord, or chief, of a people; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ زُورٌ (Sh, K) and ↓ زُوَيْرٌ (IAar, S, K) and ↓ زَوِيرٌ (TA, as from the K, [in a copy of which SM appears to have found كَالزَّوِيرِ وَالزُّوَيْرِ كَزُبَيْرٍ وَخِدَبٍّ, instead of كَالزُّوَيْرِ وَالزِّوَرِّ الخ,]) and ↓ زِوَرٌّ. (K, TA.) A3: Determination: (T, M:) or strength of determination. (K.) b2: See also زُورٌ

A4: A palm-branch, or straight and slender palm-branch, from which the leaves have been stripped off: (Sgh, K, TA:) of the dial. of El-Yemen. (Sgh, TA.) A5: Stone which appears to a person digging a well, and which, being unable to break it, he leaves apparent: (K:) or, as some say, a mass of rock, in an absolute sense. (TA.) زُورٌ A lie; a falsehood; an untruth: (S, Msb, K:) because it is a saying deviating from the truth. (TA.) So in the Kur xxii. 31: and so it is expl. in the trad., المُتَشَبِّعُ بِمَا لَمْ يُعْطَ كَلَابِسِ ثَوْبَىْ زُورٍ [He who boasts of abundance which he has not received is like the wearer of two garments of falsity]. (TA. [See art. شبع.]) So, too, in the Kur [xxv. 72], وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ الزُّورَ And those who do not bear false witness. (Bd, Msb.) [But there are other explanations of these words of the Kur, which see below.] b2: What is false, or vain: (K:) or false witness: and a thing for which one is suspected, syn. تُهَمَةٌ. (TA.) b3: (tropical:) Anything that is taken as a lord in the place of God; (S;) a thing, (K,) or anything, (AO, A,) that is worshipped in the place of God; (AO, A, K;) as also زُونٌ, with ن: or a particular idol which was adorned with jewels, in the country of Ed-Dádar (الدَّادَر [a name I nowhere find]). (TA.) b4: See also زَوْرٌ. b5: (assumed tropical:) The association of another, or others, with God: (Zj, K:) so explained by Zj, in the Kur xxv. 72, quoted above: and so the phrase شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ, occurring in a trad. (TA.) b6: (assumed tropical:) [A place or] places in which lies are told: and the words in the Kur xxv. 72, quoted above, may mean, And those who are not present in places where lies are told: because the witnessing of what is false is participating therein: (Bd:) or the meaning here is the places where the Christians sit and converse: (Zj:) or where the Jews and Christians sit and converse: (TA, as from the K:) or the festivals of the Jews and Christians: (so in the CK and in a MS. copy of the K:) or (so in the TA, but in the K “ and ”) a place, (K,) or places, (Zj,) where persons sit, and hear singing: (Zj, K:) or places where persons sit, and entertain themselves by frivolous or vain diversion: (Th:) but ISd says, I know not how this is, unless he mean the assemblies of polytheism, which includes the festivals of the Christians, and other festivals. (TA.) A2: Judgment: (K:) or judgment to which recourse may be had: (S:) or strength of judgment. (A.) [See also زَوْرٌ.] You say, مَا لَهُ زُورٌ وَلَا ضَيُّورٌ He has no judgment to which recourse may be had: (S:) or no strength of judgment: (A:) or no judgment, nor understanding or intellect or intelligence, to which recourse may be had: (TA:) for زُورٌ also signifies understanding, intellect, or intelligence; (Yaakoob, K;) and so ↓ زَوْرٌ: (A'Obeyd, K:) but A 'Obeyd thinks it a mistranscription, for لَا زَبْرَ. (TA.) b2: Strength: in which sense the word is an instance of agreement between the Arabic and Persian languages: (AO, K:) or it is arabicized: (Sb:) but the Persian word is with the inclined, not the pure, dammeh. (TA.) You say لَيْسَ لَهُمْ زُورٌ They have not strength. (TA.) And حَبْلٌ لَهُ زُورٌ A rope having strength. (TA.) b3: Deliciousness, and sweetness, or pleasantness, of food. (K.) b4: and Softness, and cleanness, of a garment, or piece of cloth. (K.) زَوَرٌ inf. n. of زَوِرَ. (TA.) b2: Inclination; (S, Msb, K;) such as is termed صَعَرٌ; (S;) crookedness; wryness; distortion. (A.) b3: Distortion of the زَوْر, (Mgh, K,) which is the upper, or uppermost, part of the breast, (Mgh,) or the middle of the breast [&c.]: (TA:) or the prominence of one of its two sides above the other: (K:) in a horse, the prominence of one of the two portions of flesh in the breast, on the right and left thereof, and the depression of the other: (S:) in others than dogs, it is said by some to signify inclination [or distortion] of a thing or part which is not of a regular square form; such as the كِرْكِرَة and the لِبْدَة. (TA.) زِيرٌ, (S, K, &c.,) originally with و, written by the Sheykh-el-Islám Zekereeyà, in his commentaries on Bd, with hemz, contr. to the leading lexicologists; (TA;) or زيرُ نِسَآءٍ; A visiter of women: (Az, TA in art. تبع:) a man who loves to discourse with women, and to sit with them, (S, K,) and to mix with them: (TA:) so called because of his frequent visits to them: or who mixes with them in vain things: or who mixes with them and desires to discourse with them: (TA:) without evil, or with it: (K:) and a woman is termed زِيرٌ also: (K:) you say اِمْرَأَةٌ زِيرُ رِجَالٍ: (Ks:) but this usage is rare: (TA:) or it is applied to a man only: (K:) a woman of this description is termed مَرْيَمٌ: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَزْوَارٌ and أَزْيَارٌ, (K,) the latter like أَعْيَادٌ pl. of عِيدٌ, (TA,) and [of mult.] زِيَرَةٌ. (S, K.) A2: Custom; habit; wont. (Yoo, K.) A3: A slender وَتَر [or bow-string]: (S, K:) or the most slender of such cords, (أَحَدُّهَا: (K, TA: in the CK أَحَدُهَا:) and the most firmly twisted. (TA.) b2: Hence the زِير [or smallest string] of a مِزْهَر [or lute] is thus termed. (TA.) [In this and the next preceding senses, it is app. of Persian origin.]

A4: Flax: (Yaakoob, S, K:) and with ة a portion thereof: (K:) pl. أَزْوَارٌ. (TA.) A5: See also art. زير.

زِوَرٌّ A vehement pace. (S, K.) b2: Vehement; or strong: (K:) but to what applied is not particularized. (TA.) b3: Applied to a camel, Strong; hardy; (TA;) prepared for journeys. (K.) and زِوَرَّةُ أَسْفَارٍ, applied to a she-camel, Prepared for journeys: or having an inclination to one side, by reason of her briskness, or sprightliness. (TA.) [See أَزْوَرُ.] b4: See also زَوْرٌ.

زَيِرٌ, in the K زَيِّرٌ: see art. زير.

زَارَةُ The حَوْصَلَة [or crop] (Az, K) of a bird; (Az, TA;) as also ↓ زَاوَرَةٌ, (K, TA,) with fet-h to the و, (TA,) [in the CK زاوِرَة,] and ↓ زَاؤُورَةُ (K, TA) [in the CK زاوُرَة]: and القَطَا ↓ زَاوَرَةُ The receptacle in which the [bird called] قطا carries water to its young ones. (TA.) A2: زَارَةُ الأَسَدِ The thicket, wood, or forest, or bed of reeds or canes, (أَجَمَة,) that is the haunt of the lion: so called because of his frequenting it. (IJ.) [See also زَأْرَةٌ, in art. زأر.] And ↓ زَارٌ A thicket, wood, or forest, (أَجَمَة,) containing [high coarse grass of the kind called] حَلْفَآء, and reeds or canes, and water. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A collected number, (K,) or a large collected number, (TA,) of camels, (K,) and of sheep or goats, and of men: or of camels, and of men, from fifty to sixty. (TA.) [See, again, زَأْرَةٌ, in art. زأر.]

زَوْرَةٌ A single visit. (S, TA.) A2: Distance; remoteness: (S, K:) from الاِزْوِرَارُ. (S.) A poet (Sakhr El-Ghei, TA) says, وَمَآءٍ وَرَدْتُ عَلَى زَوْرَةٍ

[To many a water have I come, notwithstanding its distance]: (S:) or, accord. to AA, عَلَى زَوْرَةٍ, in this ex., accord. to one relation زُورَة, but the former is the better known, means upon a she-camel that looked from the outer angle of her eye, by reason of her vehemence and sharpness of temper. (TA.) زِيرَةٌ A manner of visiting. (K.) One says, فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ الزِّيرَةِ Such a one is good in his manner of visiting. (TA.) زِوَارٌ (AA, S, K) and ↓ زِيَارٌ (IAar, K) A rope, or cord, which is put between the camel's fore-girth and kind-girth, (AA, S, K,) to prevent the kindgirth from hurting the animal's ثِيل, and so causing a suppression of the urine: (AA, TA:) pl. أَزْوِرَةٌ. (S, K.) In a trad., Ed-Dejjál is described as bound with أَزْوِرَة; meaning, having his arms bound together upon his breast. (IAth.) b2: Also, both words, (tropical:) Anything that is a [means of] rectification to another thing, (K,) and a defence, or protection; (IAar, K;) like the زِيَار of a beast. (IAar.) زِيَارٌ: see زِوَارٌ: A2: and see art. زير.

زُوَيْرٌ and زَوِيرٌ: see زَوْرٌ.

زَؤُورٌ: see what next follows, in two places.

رَجُلٌ زَوَّارٌ and ↓ زَؤُورٌ [A man who visits much]: a poet says, إِذَا غَابَ عَنْهَا بَعْلُهَا لَمْ أَكُنْ لَهَا وَلَمْ تَأْنَسْ إِلَىَّ كِلَابُهَا ↓ زَؤُورًا [When her husband is absent from her, I am not to her a frequent visiter, nor do her dogs become familiar to me]. (TA.) زَائِرٌ A person visiting; a visiter: (S, * Msb, K: *) fem. زَائِرَةٌ: (Sb:) pl. زَائِرُونَ, masc., (S, K,) and زَائِرَاتٌ, fem., (S, Msb,) and زُوَّارٌ, masc., (S, Msb, K,) and زَوَّرٌ, masc., (K,) and fem.: (Sb, S, Msb:) and ↓ زَوْرٌ signifies the same as زَائِرٌ (A, Msb, K, TA) and زَائِرَةٌ (TA) and زَائِرُونَ (S, A, K, TA) and زَائِرَاتُ; (S, A, Msb, TA;) being originally an inf. n.; or, as syn. with زائرون, it is a quasi-pl. n.; by some called a pl. of زَائِرٌ. (TA.) It is said in a trad., عَلَيْكَ حَقًّا ↓ إِنَّ لِزَوْرِكَ [Verily there is to thy visiter, or visiters, a just claim upon thee]. (TA.) [And hence,] ↓ زَوْرٌ also signifies A phantom that is seen in sleep. (K.) زَاوَرَةٌ: see زَارَةٌ; the former, in two places.

زَاؤُورَةٌ: see زَارَةٌ; the former, in two places.

أَزْوَرُ Inclining; (K;) crooked; wry; distorted: (A:) [fem. زَوْرَآءُ:] pl. زُورٌ. (K.) b2: Having that kind of distortion in the زَوْر (or middle of the breast [&c.] TA) which is termed زَوَرٌ. (K, TA.) b3: A dog whose breast (جَوْشَنُ) صَدْرِهِ) is narrow, (K,) and the كَلْكَل [app. meaning the part between the two collar-bones] projecting, as though his, or its, sides had been squeezed. (TA.) b4: A wry neck. (TA.) b5: [A beast] that looks from the outer angles of his eyes (K) by reason of his vehemence and sharpness of temper: (TA: [see also زَوْرٌ:]) or a camel (TA) that goes with an inclination towards one side, when his pace is vehement, though without any distortion in his chest. (K.) [See also زِوَرٌّ. Hence, app.,] الزَّوْرَآءُ is a name of Certain camels (مَال) that belonged to Uheyhah (S, K) Ibn-El-Juláh ElAnsáree. (S.) b6: زَوْرَآءُ (tropical:) A bow: (S, A, K:) because of its curving. (S.) b7: (tropical:) A bent bow. (TA.) b8: (tropical:) A menáreh (مَنَارَة) deviating from the perpendicular. (A.) b9: (tropical:) A well (بِئْر) deep: (S, K, * TA:) or not straightly dug. (TA.) b10: (tropical:) A land, (أَرْض, S, K,) and a desert, (مَفَازَة, A, or فَلَاة, TA,) far-extending, (S, A, K, TA,) and turning aside: (TA:) and أَزْوَرُ is applied [in the same sense] to a country, (TA,) and to an army. (S, TA.) b11: (tropical:) A saying, or phrase, (كَلِمَة,) bad, and crooked, or distorted. (A.) A2: Also زَوْرَآءُ [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates] (assumed tropical:) A [drinking-cup or bowl of the kind called] قَدَح. (S, K.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A certain vessel (K) for drinking, (TA,) oblong, like the تَلْتَلَة. (TA.) A3: هُوَ

أَزْوَرُ عَنْ مَقَامِ الذُّلِّ (A) (tropical:) He is most remote from the station, or state, of baseness, or ignominiousness. (TA.) مَزَارٌ A place [and a time] of visiting. (S, Msb.) مَزُورٌ Visited. (A.) مُزَوَّرٌ A camel distorted in the breast, or chest, when drawn forth from his mother's belly by the مُذَمِّر [q. v.], who therefore presses, or squeezes, it, in order to set it right, but so that an effect of his pressing, or squeezing, remains in him, whereby he is known to be مُزَوَّر. (Lth, K.) b2: And كَلَامٌ مُزَوَّرٌ (assumed tropical:) Speech falsified, or embellished with lies. (TA.) And (tropical:) Speech rectified, adjusted, or corrected, [and prepared, (see 2,)] before it is uttered: or beautified, or embellished; as also ↓ مُتَزَوَّرٌ. (TA.) مُزْدَارَةٌ Visiters of the tomb of the Prophet. (A.) مُتَزَوَّرٌ: see مُزَوَّرٌ.