Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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أَزْرَقُ ذ Of the colour termed زُرْقَة [q. v.]; (Msb, TA;) and ↓ أَزْرَقِىٌّ signifies the same: (TA:) an epithet applied to a man, signifying having what is termed زُرْقَة of the eye: (S:) blue, (KL,) [whether light or dark or of a middling tint, but generally the first;] sky-coloured, or azure; (TK;) blue-eyed; (MA, KL;) gray-eyed; (MA;) [or having a greenish hue in the eye: &c.: (see زُرْقَةٌ:)] fem. زَرْقآءُ: (S, Msb:) pl. زُرْقٌ. (Msb.) [In the present day it is often improperly used as meaning Black: and is applied to a horse, an ass, a mule, a bird, and any animal, and sometimes to other things, as meaning gray, or ash-coloured.] ― -b2- [And Blind; properly by reason of a bluish, or grayish, opacity of the crystalline lens; i. e., by what is commonly termed a cataract in the eye.] وَنَحْشُرُ ا@لْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقًا, in the Kur [xx. 102], means [And we will congregate, or raise to life, on that day, the sinners, or unbelievers,] blind; (Bd, K, * TA;) because the black of the eye of the blind becomes blue, or gray: (Bd:) Zj says that they will come forth from their graves seeing, as they were created at the first, and will become blind when congregated: (TA:) or the meaning is, thirsty: (Th, TA:) or with their eyes become blue, or gray, by reason of intense thirst: (ISd, TA:) or blue-eyed, or gray-eyed, (زُرْقَ العُيُونِ,) because الزُّرْقَةُ is the worst of the colours of the eye, and the most hateful thereof to the Arabs, for the Greeks were their greatest enemies, and are زُرْق. (Bd.) ― -b3- Applied to the iron head or blade of an arrow &c., Very clear or bright: (ISk, S, K:) and زُرْقٌ [used as a subst.] means spearheads (S, K) or the like; (K;) because of their colour; (S, TA;) or because of their clearness, or brightness; (TA;) or polished iron heads or blades of arrows &c. (Ham p. 313.) And Clear water: (IAar, S, Msb:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b4- Hence, العَدُوُّ الأَزْرَقُ The sheer enemy: or [the fierce enemy;] the enemy that is vehement in hostility; because زُرْقَة of the eyes is predominant in the Greeks and the Deylem, between whom and the Arabs is a confirmed enmity. (Har p. 148.) ― -b5- الأَزْرَقُ The بَازِى [i. e. hawk, or falcon: because of his colour]: pl. as above. (TA. [See also زُرَّقٌ.]) ― -b6- And The leopard. (TA.) ― -b7- الزَّرْقَآءُ Wine: (K:) [app. because of its clearness:] so says AA. (TA.) ― -b8- And the name of A horse of Náfi' Ibn-'Abd-El-'Ozzà. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)