Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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أَزْمَلٌ ذ A sound: (As, S:) or any mixed, or confused, sound: or a sound proceeding from the prepuce of a horse or similar beast: (K:) it has no verb. (TA.) A poet says, “ تَضِبُّ لِثَاتُ الخَيْلِ فِى حَجَرَاتِهَا
وَتَسْمَعُ مِنْ تَحْتِ العَجَاجِ لَهَا ا@زْمَلَا
” [The gums of the horses water in the adjacent tracts thereof, and thou hearest, beneath the dust, a sound attributable to them]: he means أَزْمَلَا, but suppresses the ', as is done in وَيْلُمِّهِ [for وَيْلٌ لِأُمِّهِ]. (S.) أَزَامِيلُ القِسِىّ means The sounds of the bows: اَزاميل being pl. of أَزْمَلٌ, with ى to give fulness to the sound of the vowel preceding it. (TA.) And ↓ أَزْمَلَةٌ signifies The twanging sound of a bow. (K, TA.) -A2- تَرَكَ أَزْمَلًا and ↓ أَزْمَلَةً and ↓ زَمَلَةً He left a family, or household. (K.) And خَرَجَ فُلَانٌ وَخَلَّفَ أَزْمَلَهُ [Such a one went forth, and left behind him his family, or his family and his cattle]: and خَرَجَ بِأَزْمَلِهِ He went forth with his family and his camels and his sheep or goats, not leaving behind him aught of his property. (AZ, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] أَخَذَهُ بِأَزْمَلِهِ [in one of my copies of the S, أَزْمَلَهُ,] He took it altogether; (S, K;) namely, a thing. (S.) And He took it with its أَثَاث [or utensils and furniture]; as also ↓ بِأَزْمُلِهِ and ↓ أَزْمَلَتِهِ (K) and ↓ زَمَلَتِهِ . (L, TA.) ― -b3- And ↓ عِيَالَاتٌ أَزْمَلَةٌ i. e. Numerous [families or households]. (S, K. *)