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مُزَلَّجٌ ذ Small in quantity or number: (K:) a mean, paltry, small, or little, gift: (S, TA:) one hat is imperfect, or incomplete: and anything that is not done superlatively, excellently, consummately, thoroughly, or soundly: (TA:) anything low, base, vile, mean, paltry, inconsiderable, or contemptible. (K. [See also مُزَلَّخٌ.]) ― -b2- Love (حُبّ [in the CK, erroneously, حَبّ]) that is not pure, or not genuine. (K.) ― -b3- Having little taste. (Ham p. 404.) ― -b4- Small in body. (Ham ibid.) ― -b5- And hence, (Ham ibid.,) A man (K) deficient, or defective, (K, Ham,) in manliness, or manly virtue or moral goodness, (Ham,) and weak: (TA:) or defective in make: and deficient in prudence, or discretion, and precaution, or sound judgment, or firmness of mind or of judgment: (TA:) and niggardly. (K.) ― -b6- One who is consociated with a people, not being of them: (S, K, TA:) or, as some say, i. q. دَعِىٌّ [i. e. one whose origin, or lineage, is suspected; or an adopted son; &c.]. (TA.) ― -b7- Also Life striven to be retained (مُدَافَعٌ) with a bare sufficiency of the means of subsistence. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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