Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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1 زَكَأَهُ ذ , (S, K,) aor. زَكَاَ , (K,) inf. n. زَكْءٌ, (S,) He paid it in ready money, quickly, or promptly; or was quick, or prompt, in doing so. (ISk, S.) [The verb is doubly trans. in this sense:) you say, زَكَأَهُ أَلْفًا He paid him a thousand (meaning a thousand dirhems, TA) in ready money, quickly, or promptly. (K, TA.) And زَكَأْتُهُ حَقَّهُ, inf. n. as above, I paid him his due; as also نَكَأْتُهُ حقّه, inf. n. نَكْءٌ. (ISh, TA) ― -b2- And زَكَأَتِ النَّاقَةُ بِوَلَدِهَا, (S, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (S,) The she-camel cast forth her young one at her hind legs, or hind feet, (S, and so in some copies of the K,) or at her hind leg, or hind foot: (so in other copies of the K:) or, in labour, cast forth her young one. (T, TA.) And one says also, قَبَحَ ا@للّٰهُ أُمًّا زَكَأَتْ بِهِ, and لَكَأْتُ به, i. e. [May God remove from good, or prosperity, a mother that cast him forth from her womb, or] that brought him forth. (TA.) ― -b3- And زَكَأَهُ, aor. as above, (K,) and so the inf. n., (TA,) He beat him, or struck him. (K.) So in the phrase زَكَأَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ; [He beat him, or struck him, with a hundred stripes of the whip]. (TA.) ― -b4- And زَكَأَ جَارِيَتَهُ; He compressed his young woman, or female slave. (K.) -A2- زَكَأَ إِِلَيْهِ He had recourse to him, or it, for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging; he leaned, or stayed himself, upon him, or it. (AZ, K.)