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زِلْفٌ ذ A meadow; syn. رَوْضَةٌ; (TS, K;) and so ↓ زَلَفَةٌ : (IB, TA:) thus the latter is expl. as occurring in a trad. relating to Ya-jooj and Ma-jooj, in which it is said, ثُمَّ يُرْسِلُ ا@للّٰهُ مَطَرًا فَيَغْسِلُ الأَرْضَ حَتَّى يَتْرُكَهَا كَالزَّلَفَةِ [Then God will send rain, and it will wash the earth so that it will leave it like the meadow]: but in this instance, several other meanings are assigned to it: see زَلَفَةٌ below. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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