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زُحَلٌ ذ A man who removes, withdraws, or retires far away, from affairs, (K, * TA,) whether they be good or evil: (TA:) fem. with ة. (K.) -A2- زُحَلُ, imperfectly decl., (S, K,) like عُمَرُ, (S,) because it is a proper name and deviates from the original form [which is app. الزَّاحِلُ, reg. part. n. of 1], (Mbr, TA,) [The planet Saturn;] a certain star, of those called الخُنَّسُ; (S, K;) so called because it is remote; and said to be in the Seventh Heaven. (TA.) غُلَامُ زُحَلَ [The young man, or slave, of Saturn] is [a surname of] Abu-l-Kásim the well-known astronomer or astrologer. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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