Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زَوْلٌ ذ an inf. n. of 1 in the first of the senses expl. above. (K, * TA.) ― -b2- See also زَوَالٌ. -A2- As an epithet applied to a man, (S,) Light, agile, or active: acute or sharp or quick in intellect, clever, ingenious, skilful, knowing, or intelligent: (S, K:) at whose acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect, &c., one wonders: (ISk, S:) fem. with ة; (S, K;) said to mean skilful, knowing, or intelligent, (S, TA,) as also the masc., (TA,) and cunning: (S, TA:) and a servant-girl who is sharp and effective in the conveying of messages: and applied to a woman as meaning بَرْزَةٌ لِلرِّجَالِ [who goes or comes forth to men, and with whom they sit, and of whom they talk, and who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous, and is intelligent; &c.: see art. برز]: (TA:) pl. masc. أَزْوَالٌ (K, TA) and fem. زَوْلَاتٌ; the former applied to young men, and the latter to young women. (TA.) ― -b2- Courageous; (K, TA;) in consequence of whose courage, men are abashed (يَتَزَايَلُوا [as though زَوْلٌ in this sense belonged to art. زيل]). (TA.) ― -b3- And Liberal, bountiful, munificent, or generous: (K, * TA:) pl. أَزْوَالٌ. (TA.) -A3- (tropical:) A wonder, or wonderful thing: (S, K, TA:) pl. أَزْوَالٌ. (S.) One says, هٰذَا زَوْلٌ مِنَ الأَزْوَالِ (tropical:) This is a wonder of the wonders. (TA.) And one says also, [using it as an epithet,] سَيْرٌ زَوْلٌ (assumed tropical:) A journeying, or pace, wonderful in respect of its quickness and briskness or lightness: and شَتْوَةٌ زَوْلَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A winter, or winters, wonderful in respect of the severity and cold thereof. (TA.) [See also أَزْوَلُ.] ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A trial, or an affliction; syn. بَلَآءٌ. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A form, or figure, that appears in the night [and by which one is frightened: see مُزَاوَلٌ]. (TA.) (tropical:) A form, or figure, of a man or some other thing, that one sees from a distance: or a person: syn. شَخْصٌ: (K, TA:) as also ↓ زَائِلَةٌ : see 1, near the end of the paragraph. (TA.) -A4- The فَرْج [i. e. the anterior pudendum, or the pudenda,] of a man. (K.) One says, كَشَفَ زَوْلَهُ [He uncovered his فرج]. (TK.) -A5- And A hawk. (K.)