زخرف
Q. 1 زَخْرَفَةٌ signifies The adorning, ornamenting, decorating, or embellishing, of a thing, (
KL, and
Har p. 3,) primarily, with زُخْرُف, i. e. gold: (
Har ib.:) and hence, (
Har,) the adorning, &c., of falsehood, or a lie: (
KL,
Har:) and the falsifying or adulterating [of speech &c.]. (
KL.) You say, زَخْرَفَ البَيْتَ,
inf. n. زَخْرَفَةٌ, He adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished, the house, or chamber, &c.; and rendered it complete: and زُخْرِفَ is said of anything as meaning It was adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished. (
TA.) And زَخْرَفَ الكَلَامَ He arranged, or rightly disposed, or put into a right or proper state, the speech, or language: (
TA:) and
i. q. رَقَّشَهُ [i. e. he embellished it; generally meaning, with lies]. (
S,
A,
K, in art. رقش.) [This verb is mentioned and explained by Freytag as on the authority of the
K, in which it is not found in this art.]
Q. 2 تَزَخْرَفَ He (a man) adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished, himself. (
TA.) زُخْرُفٌ Gold: (
Fr,
S,
M,
K:) so in the
Kur xvii. 95: and this,
accord. to
ISd, is the primary meaning. (
TA.)
b2: Then applied to Any orna-ment, decoration, or embellishment: (
ISd,
TA:) anything adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished: (
Ham p. 784:) and particularly applied to the decorations, and pictured works, in gold, with which the Kaabeh was ornamented in Pagan times. (
TA.) The colours of the plants or herbage, of land, (
K,
TA,) red and yellow and white: its ornature, consisting in blossoms and flowers: or its perfection: so in the
Kur x. 25. (
TA.) And The furniture, or utensils, of a house or tent. (
TA.)
b3: Anything varnished, or embellished with a false colouring, or falsified, is likened thereto [and so termed]. (
S,
TA.) [Hence,] زُخْرُفُ القَوْلِ The ornature of speech; (
TA;) the fair appearance, or comeliness, of speech, produced by the embellishing with lies: (
K,
TA:) so in the
Kur vi. 112: (
TA:) or it there means varnished falsehoods. (
Bd.)
b4: [Its
pl.] زَخَارِفُ signifies The lines, or streaks, [that are seen on the surface] of water. (
S,
K.)
b5: And Ships: (
T,
K:) or ornamented, or decorated, ships: (
M,
TA:) or the ornature of ships, with which they are decorated. ('Eyn,
TA.)
b6: Also Certain insects that fly upon the water, (
T,
O,
K,) having four legs, resembling the common fly; (
O,
K;) small flies, having four legs, that fly upon the water: (
M,
TA:) the
sing., زُخْرُفٌ, is
expl. by
Kr [in the Munjid] as meaning a kind of flying thing. (
TA.) مُزَخْرَفٌ Adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished: (
S,
TA:) [&c.: see the verb.]
