Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زُورٌ ذ A lie; a falsehood; an untruth: (S, Msb, K:) because it is a saying deviating from the truth. (TA.) So in the Kur xxii. 31: and so it is expl. in the trad., المُتَشَبِّعُ بِمَا لَمْ يُعْطَ كَلَابِسِ ثَوْبَىْ زُورٍ [He who boasts of abundance which he has not received is like the wearer of two garments of falsity]. (TA. [See art. شبع.]) So, too, in the Kur [xxv. 72], وَا@لَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ الزُّورَ And those who do not bear false witness. (Bd, Msb.) [But there are other explanations of these words of the Kur, which see below.] ― -b2- What is false, or vain: (K:) or false witness: and a thing for which one is suspected, syn. تُهَمَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Anything that is taken as a lord in the place of God; (S;) a thing, (K,) or anything, (AO, A,) that is worshipped in the place of God; (AO, A, K;) as also زُونٌ, with ن: or a particular idol which was adorned with jewels, in the country of Ed-Dádar (الدَّادَر [a name I nowhere find]). (TA.) ― -b4- See also زَوْرٌ. ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) The association of another, or others, with God: (Zj, K:) so explained by Zj, in the Kur xxv. 72, quoted above: and so the phrase شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ, occurring in a trad. (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) [A place or] places in which lies are told: and the words in the Kur xxv. 72, quoted above, may mean, And those who are not present in places where lies are told: because the witnessing of what is false is participating therein: (Bd:) or the meaning here is the places where the Christians sit and converse: (Zj:) or where the Jews and Christians sit and converse: (TA, as from the K:) or the festivals of the Jews and Christians: (so in the CK and in a MS. copy of the K:) or (so in the TA, but in the K “ and ”) a place, (K,) or places, (Zj,) where persons sit, and hear singing: (Zj, K:) or places where persons sit, and entertain themselves by frivolous or vain diversion: (Th:) but ISd says, I know not how this is, unless he mean the assemblies of polytheism, which includes the festivals of the Christians, and other festivals. (TA.) -A2- Judgment: (K:) or judgment to which recourse may be had: (S:) or strength of judgment. (A.) [See also زَوْرٌ.] You say, مَا لَهُ زُورٌ وَلَا ضَيُّورٌ He has no judgment to which recourse may be had: (S:) or no strength of judgment: (A:) or no judgment, nor understanding or intellect or intelligence, to which recourse may be had: (TA:) for زُورٌ also signifies understanding, intellect, or intelligence; (Yaakoob, K;) and so ↓ زَوْرٌ : (A'Obeyd, K:) but A 'Obeyd thinks it a mistranscription, for لَا زَبْرَ. (TA.) ― -b2- Strength: in which sense the word is an instance of agreement between the Arabic and Persian languages: (AO, K:) or it is arabicized: (Sb:) but the Persian word is with the inclined, not the pure, dammeh. (TA.) You say لَيْسَ لَهُمْ زُورٌ They have not strength. (TA.) And حَبْلٌ لَهُ زُورٌ A rope having strength. (TA.) ― -b3- Deliciousness, and sweetness, or pleasantness, of food. (K.) ― -b4- And Softness, and cleanness, of a garment, or piece of cloth. (K.)