Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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أَزَلُّ ذ Quick, or swift. (IAar, K.) ― -b2- See also زُلْزُلٌ. ― -b3- Also Light [of flesh] in the hips, or haunches: (AA, S, K:) and having little flesh in the posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; syn. أَرْسَحُ; (M, TA;) in the copies of the K, erroneously, أَشَجُّ: (TA:) or it signifies one who is more than أَرْسَح; (K, * TA;) whose waist-wrapper will not retain its hold: (TA:) fem. زَلَّآءُ, (S, K,) applied to a woman; i. q. رَسْحَآءُ: (S:) or having no buttock: pl. زُلٌّ. (TA.) السِّمْعُ الأَزَلُّ means The wolf that has little flesh in the rump and thighs, (الذِّئْبُ الأَرْسَحُ, S, in the K ذِئْبٌ أَرْسَحُ,) begotten between the wolf and the she-hyena; (S, K; [the words والخِفَّةُ والقِتالُ والشَّرُّ here immediately following in the CK should be erased; their proper place being in the second of the lines below in that edition, where they are again inserted; as observed by Freytag;]) and this epithet (الازلّ) is inseparable: (S:) or, accord. to IAth, الأَزَلُّ primarily signifies the small in the buttock: and as an epithet applied to the wolf, the light, or active; and it is said to be from زَلَّ signifying “ he ran. ” (TA.) It is said in a prov., هُوَ أَسْمَعُ مِنَ السِّمْعِ الأَزَلِّ [He is more quick of hearing than the سمع that is lean in the rump and thighs; or than the light, or active, سمع]. (S, TA.) ― -b4- قَوْسٌ زَلَّآءُ A bow from which the arrow slips, by reason of the rapidity with which it goes forth. (K.)