علك

1 عَلَكَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb, K) and عَلِكَ, (K,) inf. n. عَلْكٌ, (Msb,) He chewed it; (S, Msb, K;) and moved it backwards and forwards in his mouth, to chew it. (K.) b2: عَلَكَ اللِّجَامَ, (S, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S,) or ـِ (O,) He (a horse) chewed, or champed, the bit, (S, O, Msb,) or moved it about, (K,) in his mouth; (S, O, K;) like أَلَكَهُ. (ISd and K in art. الك.) b3: And عَلَكَ نَابَيْهِ He ground, or grated, his canine teeth, one with the other, so that a sound was produced. (K.) b4: عَلَكَتْ عَجِينَهَا She kneaded well her dough. (TA.) 2 علّك القِرْبَةَ, (K,) inf. n. تَعْلِيكٌ, (O, K,) He tanned well the water-skin: (O, K:) mentioned by AHn (TA) and Ibn-'Abbád (O, TA) and Z. (TA.) b2: علّك مَالَهُ He tended, or managed, well, his cattle, or property. (O, K, TA.) b3: and علّك يَدَيْهِ عَلَى مَالِهِ He tightened his hands upon his property, from niggardliness, (K, TA,) not entertaining a guest nor giving to a petitioner or beggar. (TA.) 5 مَا تَعَلَّكْتُ بِعَلُوكٍ [I have not occupied myself in chewing with anything that is chewed; or] I have not tasted anything; and so مَاتَأَلَّكْتُ بِأَلُوكٍ and مَا تَعَلَّجْتُ بِعَلُوجٍ. (O in art. علج.) R. Q. 3 اِعْلَنْكَكَ الشَّعَرُ The hair was, or became, intensely black, (اِحْلَنْكَكَ, S,) or abundant, (K,) and collected together. (S, K.) عِلْكٌ [Resin;] a certain thing that is chewed; (S, O;) the صَمْغ [meaning resin] of the صَنَوْبَر and of the أَرْزَة and of the فُسْتُق and of the سَرْو and of the يَنْبُوت and of the بُطْم; the last of which is the best of these; (K, TA;) like لُبَان [or frankincense], which is chewed and is not thereby liquefied; (TA;) heating, diuretic, and strengthening to the venereal faculty; (K, TA;) any صَمْغ [or resin] that is chewed, consisting of frankincense (لُبَان) and of other sorts, and that does not flow [in consequence of its being chewed]: (Msb:) pl. [of mult.] عُلُوكٌ (Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَعْلاَكٌ. (Msb, TA.) عَلَكٌ and ↓ عَلَاكٌ (O, K) and ↓ عُلَاكٌ (accord. to some copies of the K, but not in the O nor in the TA,) A tree of El-Hijáz: (K:) or a species of trees growing in the region of El-Hijáz: AHn says, the عَلَك are certain trees, of the characteristics of which I have not heard a description. (O.) عَلِكٌ Food tough, or hard to chew; (O, K;) as also ↓ عَالِكٌ. (K.) [And] A viscous, glutinous, cohesive, sticky, ropy, or slimy, thing. (S.) b2: طِينَةٌ عَلِكَةٌ A piece, or portion, of clay or earth, green, or of a dark or an ashy dust-colour, (خَضْرَآءُ,) and soft, (O, TA,) in which is no sand. (TA.) b3: And أَرْضٌ عَلِكَةٌ Land near to water. (O, K.) عَلَكَةٌ A fat and goodly she-camel. (K.) عَلِكَةٌ The شِقْشِقَة [or faucial bag] of the camel, when he brays: (O, K:) pl. عَلِكَاتٌ. (O.) b2: and the latter, (عَلِكَاتٌ,) Strong canine teeth: (K:) this is said by some to be its meaning in a verse of Ru-beh. (O.) عَلَاكٌ: see عُلَاكٌ: A2: and see also عَلَكٌ.

عُلَاكٌ A thing that is chewed; as also ↓ عَلَاكٌ [and ↓ عَلُوكٌ (see 5)]: so in the saying مَا ذَاقَ عُلَاكًا and عَلَاكًا [and عَلُوكًا, i. e. He tasted not a thing that is chewed; meaning, anything]. (K, TA.) A2: See also عَلَكٌ.

عَلُوكٌ: see the next preceding paragraph: and see also أَلُوكٌ.

عُلَاكَةٌ i. q. عُرَاكَةٌ [q. v.]. (TA in art. عرك.) عَلَّاكٌ A seller of عِلْك [or resin]. (K.) عَالِكٌ [act. part. n. of 1; Chewing; &c.]. b2: [The pl.] عَوَالِكُ is applied by Ru-beh to bitted mares [as meaning Chewing, or champing the bits]. (O.) b3: See also عَلِكٌ.

عَوْلَكٌ A stammering, or stuttering, (لَجْلَجَةٌ,) in the tongue: (K:) [or, app., an action, in the tongue, like chewing: for it is said that] فِى لِسَانِهِ عَوْلَكٌ means يَعْلُكُهُ and يَمْضُغُهُ [i. e., app., He chews his tongue in speaking]. (O, from Ibn-'Abbád.) A2: Also A certain vein (S, O, K) in the رَحِم [app. here meaning, as in many other instances, the vulva]; accord. to El-'Adebbes ElKinánee, (S, O,) in mares and she-asses and ewes or she-goats, in the بُظِارَة [q. v.], unapparent, (S, O, K,) in the interior thereof: (S, O:) the بظارة is between the two sides of the vulva: (TA:) pl. عَوَالكُ. (S, O.) Accord. to Ibn-Abbád, i. q. بَظْرٌ [q. v.]. (O.) مِعْلَاكٌ A thing like an arrow, which is shot. (IB, TA.)

فحو

1 فَحَا بِكَلَامِهِ إِلَى كَذَا, (Msb, TA,) aor. ـْ [like يَعْلُو], the verb being of the class of عَلَى, (so in the Msb accord. to the TA,) or يَفْحَى [like يَنْفَعُ], the verb being of the class of نَفَعَ, (so accord. to my copy of the Msb,) or, as in copies of the T, يَفْحِى, without teshdeed, the verb being of the class of رَمَى, (TA, [but this is app. a mistranscription for يَفْحَى, as the last radical letter is و,]) inf. n. فَحْوٌ; (Msb, TA;) or بكلامه ↓ فحّى

الى كذا, thus accord. to the K, agreeably with what is said by J; (TA;) [but one of my copies of the S has إِنَّهُ لَيَفْحَى بِكَلَامِهِ إِلَى كَذَا وَكَذَا; the other copy having ↓ لَيُفَحِّى;] He meant, or intended, by his saying, or speech, such a thing. (Msb, K, TA. [In the S, the meaning is only indicated by the context.]) A2: بَكَى حَتَّى فَحِىَ, like رَضِىَ, He (a child) wept until he sobbed. (TA.) 2 فحّى القِدْرَ, inf. n. تَفْحِيَةٌ, He made the cooking-pot to have a large quantity of أَبَازِير [or seeds used in cooking, for seasoning the food: from فَحًا, q. v.]: (S, * K, TA:) or, accord. to Aboo-'Alee El-Kálee, he put, or threw, into the cookingpot, أَبَازِير, i. e. تَوَابِل. (TA.) It is said, by Z, [but with hardly any reason that I can see,] to be formed by transposition from the letters فوح thus combined. (TA.) A2: See also 1, in two places.3 فَاحَيْتُهُ, inf. n. مُفَاحَاةٌ, I talked, discoursed, or held a colloquy, with him, and understood what he intended, or meant. (A, TA.) فَحًا and فِحًى, (S, K,) the former of which is the more common, (S,) The seeds that are used in cooking, for seasoning the food; (S, K;) as also ↓ فَحْوَآءُ: or the dry thereof: (K:) pl. أَفْحَآءٌ; (S, K;) which is said by IAth to signify the [seeds called] تَوَابِل of the cooking-pot, such as pepper and cumin-seed and the like thereof. (TA.) And it is said to signify particularly The onion, or onions collectively. (TA.) Thus in a trad. of Mo'áwiyeh, in which he is related to have said to a party who came to him, كُلُوا مِنْ فَحَا أَرْضِنَا فَقَلَّ مَا أَكَلَ قَوْمٌ مِنْ فَحَا أَرْضٍ فَضَرَّهُمْ مَاؤُهَا [Eat ye of the seasoning of our land (meaning of the onions,) for rarely have people eaten of the seasoning of a land and the water thereof has harmed them]. (TA: and the like is said in the S, but not so fully.) فَحْوَةٌ i. q. شَهْدَةٌ [A portion of honey; or a honey-comb; or a portion of a honey-comb]. (K, TA. [It is added in the latter that it is as though it were formed by transposition from فَوْحَة; which I do not find in this sense in any lexicon.]) فَحْيَةٌ, like جَرْيَةٌ; (so in some copies of the K, and accord. to the TA, in which it is said to be “ with fet-h; ”) or فِحْيَةٌ, like جِرْيَةٌ; (so in other copies of the K; [but I think that both are evidently wrong, because deviating from a common rule of the K, and for more than one other obvious reason; and that the right reading is ↓ فِحِّيَّةٌ, like جِرِّيَّةٌ (accord. to those who hold this to be of the measure فِعِّيلَةٌ, not فِعْلِيَّةٌ); i. e., that it is originally فِحِّيوَةٌ, the و being necessarily changed into ى and incorporated into the preceding ى;] and also ↓ فَحِيَّةٌ; (K, TA;) the former on the authority of AA, and the latter on that of IAar; (TA;) Thin soup: (K, TA: [in some copies of the K, حَشْو is erroneously put for حَسْو or حَسُوّ, the readings in other copies:]) or soup in general. (K, TA.) فَحْوَى and ↓ فَحْوَآءُ, (T, S, Msb, K, &c.,) the latter sometimes used, (Msb,) but Az is said to have disallowed the pronunciation with the lengthened alif, (TA,) and ↓ فُحَوَآءُ, (K, TA,) this last mentioned by ISd and Sgh on the authority of Fr, (TA,) The meaning of a saying, or speech; its intended sense or import; syn. مَعْنًى; (S, Msb, K;) and مَذْهَبٌ; (K;) and لَحْنٌ. (S, Msb.) One says, عَرَفْتُهُ, (S, A,) or فَهِمْتُهُ, (Msb,) فِى, (S,) or مِنْ, (A, Msb,) فَحْوَى كَلَامِهِ and كَلَامِهِ ↓ فَحْوَآءِ (S, A, Msb) i. e. [I knew it, or I understood it, in, or from, the intended sense or import of his saying, or speech; or,] in [or from] what I elicited of his meaning, or intent, in what he said. (A.) [See also عَرُوضٌ, near the middle of the paragraph.]

فَحْوَآءُ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places: A2: see also فَحًا.

فُحَوَآءٌ: see فَحْوَى.

فَحِيَّةٌ and فِحِّيَّةٌ: see فَحْيَةٌ, above.

أَفْحَى i. q. أَبَحُّ [Having a hoarse, rough, harsh, or gruff, voice]. (Sgh, TA.)

شهو

1 شَهِيَهُ and شَهَاهُ: see 8.

A2: شَهَا, aor. ـُ and شَهِىَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. شَهْوَةٌ; It [food &c.] was good, sweet, pleasant, or the like. (MA. [But this, the only meaning there assigned to these two verbs, I do not find elsewhere.]) 2 شَهَّيْتُهُ [I made him, or caused him, to desire, to long, or to desire eagerly]. (Msb.) b2: [and شهّى It excited desire, longing, eager desire, or appetence. For ex., in art. سمق in the K, يُشَهِّى is said of the سُمَّاق, or berry of the sumach, meaning It excites appetence.] b3: And شهّى الشَّىْءَ He, or it, caused the thing to be desired, longed for, or desired eagerly: made it to be good, sweet, pleasant, or the like. (MA.) One says, هٰذَا شَىْءٌ يُشَهِّى الطَّعَامَ i. e. [This is a thing that causes the food to be desired, &c.; that makes it sweet, &c.; or] that incites to desire, or eager desire, of the food. (S, TA.) b4: [And accord. to an explanation of the inf. n., تَشْهِيَةٌ, in the KL, شهّاهُ seems to signify also He said to him, I will give to thee what thou desirest, longest for, or eagerly desirest; agreeably with a rendering of the verb alone, as on the authority of that work, by Golius.]3 شاهاهُ, (K, TA,) inf. n. مُشَاهَاةٌ, (TA,) He was, or became, like him; he resembled him. (K, TA.) A2: Also He jested, or joked, with him: (IAar, TA:) [and] so هَاشَاهُ. (K in art. هشو.) b2: And accord. to IAar, it is also used in relation to the smiting action of the [evil] eye [perhaps meaning He vied with him in smiting with the evil eye: see also 4]. (TA.) 4 اشهاهُ He gave him what he desired or eagerly desired. (K.) b2: And He smote him with an [evil] eye: (K:) in this sense [said to be] formed by transposition from أَشَاهَهُ. (TA.) A2: مَا أَشْهَاهَا إِلَىَّ means that she is desired, or eagerly desired, [i. e. How great an object of desire is she to me!] as though it were from شُهِىَ, though this was not said: and مَا أَشْهَانِى لَهَا means that thou art desiring, or eagerly desiring, [i. e. How desirous, or eagerly desirous, am I of her!] so says Sb. (TA.) 5 تشهّى He demanded with repeated desire. (K, TA.) So in the saying, (TA,) تشهّى عَلَى

فُلَانٍ كَذَا (S, TA) [He demanded with repeated desire, of such a one, such a thing]. b2: See also what next follows.8 اشتهاهُ (S, &c.) He desired it, or longed for it: (Msb:) he loved it; and desired it, or wished for it: (K:) or he desired it eagerly, or intensely: (M in art. فرس: [see an ex. in a poetical citation voce فَرَّسَ:]) and ↓ شَهِيَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K;) as also ↓ شَهَاهُ, aor. ـُ (Az, Msb, K;) inf. n. شَهْوَةٌ (S, TA) and شَاهِيَةٌ, which last is an inf. n. [of a rare class] like عَاقِبَةٌ; (TA;) signifies the same: (S, Msb, K:) and so does ↓ تشهّاهُ. (K.) [See what next follows.]

شَهْوَةٌ [mentioned above as an inf. n.] is a word of well-known meaning; (S;) Desire, or longing, or yearning, of the soul for a thing; (Er-Rághib, Msb, TA;) [meaning for a thing gratifying to sense: or eager, or intense, desire; particularly for such a thing; for] it has a more intensive signification than إِرَادَةٌ; and the intelligent agree in opinion that it is not commendable: (M in art. فرس:) [being either lawful or unlawful, it may be rendered as above: or appetite: or appetence: or lust: or carnal lust:] in the present state of existence, it is of two sorts, صَادِقَةٌ [i. e. true], and كَاذِبَةٌ [i. e. false]; the former being that without which the body becomes in an unsound state, as the شَهْوَة [or desire &c.] for food on the occasion of hunger; and the latter being that without which the body does not become in an unsound state: and sometimes it is applied to the object of desire &c., or thing desired &c.: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and agreeably with this last explanation the first of the following pls. is used in the Kur iii.

12: (Ksh, Bd, Jel:) sometimes also it is applied to the faculty to which a thing is made an object of desire &c.: (Er-Rághib, TA:) [also, to the gratification of venereal lust; thus in the K in art. شفر; see شَفِرَتْ and شَفِرَةٌ:] the pl. is شَهَوَاتٌ (Msb, TA) and أَشْهِيَةٌ and شُهًى; the last mentioned by AHei, and a rare instance of a pl. of the measure فُعَلٌ from a sing. of the measure فَعْلَةٌ having an infirm letter for its last radical, like جُهًى pl. of جَهْوَةٌ [and like قُرًى pl. of قَرْيَةٌ]. (TA.) [الشَّهْوَتَانِ means The two appetites, that of the stomach and that of the generative organ.]

الشَّهْوَةُ الخَفِيَّةُ [The latent desire &c.] mentioned in a trad. is said to be any act of disobedience which one conceives in his mind, and upon which he resolves: or one's seeing a beautiful young woman, and lowering his eyes, then looking with his heart, and imaging her to his mind, and so tempting himself. (JM.) [شَهْوَةُ الطِّينِ, lit. The longing for clay, is app. used as a general term for malacia: see حُمَّاضٌ.]

شَهْوَانُ (S, Msb, K, TA) and ↓ شَهْوَانِىٌّ and ↓ شَهِىٌّ, (K, TA,) applied to a man, Desirous, or longing; (S, * Msb, * K, * TA;) or very desirous or longing; greedy; or voracious: (TA:) fem. (of the first, Msb) شَهْوَى: (Msb, K, TA:) pl. [of the first] شَهَاوَى, (K, TA,) like سَكَارَى [pl. of سَكْرَانُ]. (TA.) [See an ex. of the pl. in a verse cited voce جَرْدَبَانٌ.] One says, رَجُلٌ شَهْوَانُ لِلشَّىْءِ [A man desirous &c. of the thing]. (S.) شَهْوَانِىٌّ: see the next preceding paragraph.

شَهِىٌّ i. q. ↓ مُشْتَهًى (S, Msb) [i. e. Desired, longed for, or eagerly desired:] or pleasant, delicious, or sweet: (Msb, TA:) applied to food, (S,) and to water. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] أَبُو الشَّهِىِّ (assumed tropical:) The بَرْبَط [or Persian lute]. (KL.) b3: [and Golius adds, as on the authority of a gloss in a copy of the KL, (assumed tropical:) The water-melon (anguria).]

A2: See also شَهْوَانُ.

شَهَّآءٌ A man having much, or frequent, desire or longing or eager desire. (TA.) [See also شَهْوَانُ.]

شَاهٍ [act. part. n. of 1; Desiring, or longing; &c.]. (Sb, TA.) A2: شَاهِى البَصَرِ A man sharp of sight: (S, K:) formed by transposition from شَائِهُ البَصَرِ. (S.) أَشْهَى [More, and most, desirable, or pleasant or delicious or sweet]. One says, هُوَ أَشْهَى إِلَىَّ مِنْ كَذَا [It is more desirable, or pleasant &c., to me, or in my estimation, than such a thing]. (Msb voce إِلَى.) See also another ex. in a verse cited voce إِلَى, in art. الو.

مُشْتَهًى: see شَهِىٌّ. b2: [Used as a subst., its pl. is مُشْتَهَيَاتٌ.]

زكو

1 زَكَا, aor. ـْ (S, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. زَكَآءٌ, (S,) or زُكُوٌّ, (Msb, [accord. to which the former seems to be a simple subst.,]) or both, (K, TA,) the latter like عُلُوٌّ, as in the M, but accord. to [some of] the copies of the K زَكْوٌ, (TA,) It increased, or augmented; (S, Msb, K, TA;) it received increase and blessing from God; it throve by the blessing of God; (Er-Rághib, TA;) and produced fruit; (TA in art. زكى;) and زَكِىَ, (K in that art.,) aor. ـْ inf. n. زَكَاةٌ, (TA in that art.,) signifies the same, (K, TA,) mentioned by ISd, on the authority of Lh, as a dial. var. of زَكَا, aor. ـو (TA;) and so ↓ ازكى; (Msb, K;) and ↓ تزكّى: (K in art. زكى:) it is said of seed-produce, (S, Msb, Er-Rághib, TA,) and of wealth, or cattle &c., and of other things: of anything that increases, or augments, one says يَزْكُو, inf. n. زَكَآءٌ. (TA.) [This is the primary meaning: or, accord. to some, the primary meaning is, It was, or became, pure:] some say that the root denotes purity: and some, that it denotes a state of increase, or augmentation. (Mgh.) You say also زَكَتِ الأَرْضُ The land throve, or yielded increase. (Msb.) And زَكَا الغُلَامُ [The boy grew, or throve], inf. n. زُكُوٌّ and زَكَآءٌ, on the authority of Akh. (S.) And زَكَا عَمَلُهُ (assumed tropical:) [His deed, or work, throve]. (K in art. در.) It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, المَالُ تَنْقُصُهُ النَّفَقَةُ وَالعِلْمُ يَزْكُو عَلَى

الإِنْفَاقِ (assumed tropical:) [Wealth, what one expends diminishes it, but knowledge increases by expending]: زَكَآء being thus predicated of knowledge, though this is not a corporeal thing. (TA.) Accord. to El-Umawee, (S,) said of a man, زَكَا, (S, K,) aor. ـْ inf. n. زُكُوٌّ, (S,) means He enjoyed, or led, a plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft or delicate, life; (S, K;) was in a state of abundance of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life. (S.) And likewise said of a man, (having the same aor. and inf. n., TA,) it means also He was, or became, good, or righteous; (Jel in xxiv. 21, Msb, K, TA;) and pure from sin. (Jel ibid.) [Hence,] هٰذَا الأَمْرُ لَا يَزْكُو بِفُلَانٍ means This thing, or affair, will not be suitable to such a one; will not befit him. (S.) 2 زكّاهُ, inf. n. تَزْكِيَةٌ: see 4. b2: Also He purified him, or it. (Er-Rághib, TA.) Sometimes the agent of the verb in this sense is a man; as in the saying in the Kur [xci. 9], قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا [Verily he prospereth who purifieth it; namely, his soul]: sometimes it is God; as in [the saying in the Kur xxiv. 21,] وَلٰكِنَّ اللّٰهَ يُزَكِّى

مَنْ يَشَآءُ [But God purifieth whom He willeth]: and sometimes it is the Prophet; as in the saying [in the Kur ix. 104], خُذْ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ صَدَقَةً تُطَهِّرُهُمْ وَتُزَكِّيهِمْ بِهَا [Take thou, from their possessions, a poor-rate, whereby thou shalt cleanse them and purify them; where (J says in the S) they say that تُزَكِّيهِمْ means the same as تُطَهِّرُهُمْ]; and in the saying [in the Kur ii. 146], يَتْلُو عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتِنَا وَيُزَكِّيكُمْ [Who reciteth to you our signs, and purifieth you]. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b3: [Hence, accord. to what is said in the Kur ix. 104, i. e. because the act which it signifies is believed to purify the performer, or because it is believed to purify, or to occasion an increase of, the rest of his property,] زكّى مَالَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. as above, (S, Msb,) He gave the زَكَاة [or poorrate] from his property. (S, Mgh.) And زكّاهُ, (S,) or زكّاهُمْ, (Mgh,) He took (S, Mgh) his, (S,) or their, (Mgh,) زَكَاة [or poor-rate]. (S, Mgh.) b4: زَكَّيْتُهُ also signifies I attributed to him زَكَآء, i. e. [purity, or] goodness, or righteousness. (Msb.) [And hence, I praised him.] And زكّى

نَفْسَهُ, (S, Mgh,) inf. n. as above, (S,) He praised himself. (S, Mgh.) The doing this is forbidden in the Kur liii. 33. (Er-Rághib, TA.) Hence, also, تَزْكِيَةُ الشُّهُودِ The pronouncing the witnesses to be veracious, and good, or righteous. (Mgh.) A2: هُوَ يُخَسِّى وَيُزَكِّى He plays, and says, “Is it even or odd [or rather odd or even]?” (TA in art. خسو;) he takes, or holds, something in his hand, and says, “Is it even or odd [or odd or even]?” (TA in the present art.) [See زَكَا below.]4 ازكاهُ He (God) made it to increase, or augment; (S, Msb, K;) [made it to thrive; and put it into a good, or right, state, or condition;] namely, seed-produce, (S, Msb, TA,) and wealth, or cattle &c, and any other thing capable of increase; (TA;) as also ↓ زكّاهُ, (Msb, K, TA,) inf. n. تَزْكِيَةٌ. (TA.) b2: Also He put it into a bag, or some other receptacle; namely, property: thus expl. by Aboo-Moosà. (Nh, TA.) A2: See also 1, first sentence.5 تزكّى: see 1, first sentence. b2: Also He became purified; or he purified himself: (TA:) also pronounced اِزَّكَّى, aor. ـّ (Bd in xxxv. 19.) b3: And He endeavoured to attain much piety; from الزَّكَآءُ. (Bd in lxxxvii. 14.) b4: And He gave the poor-rate. (S.) زَكَا, (S, K, * TA,) without tenween, and accord. to some with tenween, and not having the article ال prefixed to it; and in like manner خَسَا, which is coupled with the former, is without tenween, and accord. to some with tenween, and not having the article ال prefixed to it; (TA;) [but each has ال prefixed to it in the K;] i. q. الشَّفْعُ (S, K) مِنَ العَدَدِ (K) [or شَفْعٌ, as meaning An even number; a number consisting of pairs; or a single pair]: said to be so called because the pair are more, or more perfect, or better, (↓ أَزْكَى,) than is the one. (TA.) You say خَسَا أَوْ زَكَا or خَسًا أَوْ زَكًا [Odd or even?]. (TA.) [See more voce خَسَا.]

زَكَاةٌ. or زَكٰوةٌ, [accord. to El-Hareeree, to be written with ا when prefixed to a pronoun, and also in the dual number, (see De Sacy's Anthol. Gram. Arabe, p. 67 of the Arabic text,) but this rule I have not found to be generally observed, even in the best MSS., nor have I in the similar cases of صَلٰوةٌ and حَيٰوةٌ, (to which it is also applied,) in the best copies of the Kur-án,] of the measure فَعَلَةٌ, [i. e., originally زَكَوَةٌ,] like صَدَقَةٌ [which is one of its syns.]; a noun of the class of homonyms: (IAth, TA:) it signifies Increase, or augmentation, (IAth, Er-Rághib, TA,) as also ↓ زَكَآءٌ [mentioned in the first paragraph as an inf. n.], (Msb,) resulting from the blessing of God; and this is [said to be] the primary meaning; and is considered as relating to the things of the present world and to those of the world to come. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b2: And Purity. (IAth, TA.) And [particularly] The dryness of the earth or ground; which is its purity from defilement. (TA.) b3: And Purification: a meaning which it is said to have in the saying in the Kur [xxiii. 4], وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِلزَّكٰوةِ فَاعِلُونَ, (IAth, Mgh, Er-Rághib, TA,) i. e. And who are acting in their religious service for God's purification of them; or for their purification of themselves: for لِلزَّكٰوة is not here an objective complement of فَاعِلُونَ; the ل therein denoting the aim and the cause. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b4: Also, [as being a mode of purification of oneself,] Good, or righteous, conduct: and in this sense it has been expl. as used in the Kur xviii. 80: or as meaning goodness, or righteousness: (TA:) which ↓ زَكَآءٌ [also] signifies. (Msb.) And Religious service; as being the means of purification: so [accord. to some] it signifies in the saying [in the Kur xix. 14], وَحَنَانًا مِنْ لَدُنَّا وَزَكٰوةً [And the disposition to mercy, or compassion, from us, and religious service]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or it here means طُهْرَة [i. e. purification, or purity]: and [accord. to some, if we except the instances mentioned above in the next two preceding sentences,] this is the only instance in the Kur-án in which it is used in any other sense than that which next follows. (Kull p. 199.) b5: And [The poor-rate;] the portion, or amount, of property, that is given therefrom, (M, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K, Er-Rághib, TA,) as the due of God, (Er-Rághib, TA,) by its possessor, (M, K, TA,) to the poor, (M, Mgh, Er-Rághib, TA,) in order that he may purify it thereby: (M, IAth, K, TA:) [in the S it is merely said that “ the زَكٰوة of property is well known: ” the giving it is obligatory, provided that the property is of a certain amount, and has been in possession eleven months: the portion given varies according to the nature and amount of the property; but is generally a fortieth part thereof, or of its value; i. e. two and a half per cent.:] it is thus termed [for the reason assigned above; or] as being a cause of the hope of increase, (Msb, Er-Rághib, TA,) or as causing the soul, or person, to thrive, or grow, by means of good things and blessings [procured thereby], or for both of these reasons. (Er-Rághib, TA.) زَكَاةُ الفِطْرِ [The alms of the breaking of the fast, given at the end of Ramadán,] is obligatory upon every person of the Muslims, the free and the slave, the male and the female, the young and the old, the poor and the rich; and purifies the faster from unprofitable and lewd discourse: it consists of a صَاع [q. v.] of dates, or of barley, [or of raisins or some other ordinary kind of food,] or half that quantity of wheat. (El-Jámi' es-Sagheer, voce زَكَاة.) [The pl. is زَكَوَاتٌ.] b6: Also, [as being an attribution of purity or goodness or righteousness,] Praise. (IAth, TA.) b7: And The pure, or best, part of a thing: (K, TA:) on the authority of Aboo-'Alee. (TA.) زَكَآءٌ an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (S, K.) See also the next preceding paragraph, in two places. b2: Also [The increase of the earth; or] the fruits caused to come forth by God. (TA.) زَكِىٌّ i. q. ↓ زَاكٍ, (Akh, S,) which signifies Increasing [&c., as act part. n. of زَكَا, q. v.]: (Ham p. 722:) [and growing, or thriving]: applied in this sense to a boy. (Akh, S.) b2: غُلَامًا زَكِيًّا in the Kur xix. 19 means [A boy] pure from sins: or growing, or increasing, in goodness and righteousness: (Bd:) or purified by nature: or such as shall in the future become purified. (TA.) and نَفْسًا زَكِيَّةً in the Kur xviii. 73 means [A soul, or person,] pure from sins: some read ↓ زَاكِيَةً; but the former is more forcible: [or,] accord. to AA, ↓ the latter means that has never sinned: and the former, that has sinned and then been forgiven. (Bd.) [Or] رَجُلٌ زَكِىٌّ signifies A good, or righteous, man: and the pl. is أَزْكِيَآءُ. (Msb, K, * TA.) And also A man enjoying, or leading, a plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft or delicate, life: pl. as above. (K, TA.) b3: and أَرْضٌ زَكِيَّةٌ Good, fat land. (TA in art زكى.) زَكَوِىٌّ [generally meaning Of, or relating to, the poor-rate] is the rel. n. of زَكَاةٌ; like as حَصَوِىٌّ is that of حَصَاةٌ; because the rel. n. reduces the word to its original form: زَكَائِىٌّ is vulgar and wrong. (Msb.) زَاكٍ, and its fem. زَاكِيَةٌ: see زَكِىٌّ, in three places.

أَزْكَى More, or most, profitable: (Bd in ii. 232:) or better, or best: (Jel ibid:) more, or most, pure: (Bd in xxiv. 28:) more, or most, lawful, (Bd and Jel in xviii. 18,) and good, or pleasant: or more, or most, abundant and cheap. (Bd ibid.) See also زَكَا as a noun.