Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زَمْزَمٌ ذ Copious, or abundant, water; as also ↓ زُمَازِمٌ : (K:) [or] the latter, (Kz, TA,) [and app. the former also,] and ↓ زُمَزِمٌ , (IKh, TA,) and ↓ زَمْزَامٌ , (Kz, TA,) brackish water; i. e. such as is between salt and sweet. (IKh, Kz, TA.) ― -b2- Also, (accord. to some copies of the S and K,) or زَمْزَمُ, (accord. to other copies of the same, and accord. to the Msb,) imperfectly decl., because of the fem. gender and a proper name, (Msb,) the name of The well of Mekkeh, (so in a copy of the S and in the Msb,) or a certain [celebrated] well in Mekkeh, (so in another copy of the S,) [i. e.] a certain well adjacent to the Kaabeh; (K;) so called [because its water is somewhat brackish, or] because of the copiousness of its water; (JM;) as also ↓ زُمَزِم [i. e. زُمَزِمٌ or زُمَزِمُ], (IAar, TA,) and ↓ زُمَازِمٌ [or زُمَازِمُ], and ↓ زَمَّمٌ or زَمَّمُ, (accord. to different copies of the K,) the last (زَمَّم) on the authority of IAar. (TA.) The names of this well, collected from trads. and lexicons, have been found to amount to more than sixty. (TA.) ― -b3- زَمْزَم [with or without tenween] is also the name of A celebrated well at El-Medeeneh, which is regarded as a means of obtaining a blessing, and the water of which is drunk and transported [like that of the more celebrated well of the same name at Mekkeh]. (TA.) -A2- زَمْزَمٌ or زَمْزَمُ (accord. to different copies of the S, [used by a poet with tenween, but probably by poetic license, for it is app. a fem. proper name, and therefore imperfectly decl.,]) is also A name of, or for, a she-camel, like عَيْطَل. (S.)