Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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2 زوّرهُ ذ , (A, K,) inf. n. تَزْوِيرٌ, (S,) He honoured him; namely, a visiter; treated him with honour, or hospitality; (S, A, K;) made account of his visit; (A;) treated him well, and acknowledged his right as a visiter; (TA;) slaughtered for him, and treated him with honour or hospitality. (AZ.) -A2- زوّر الشَّهَادَةَ He annulled the testimony; (K, TA;) impugned and annulled it. (TA.) ― -b2- El-Kattál says, “ وَنَحْنُ أُنَاسٌ عُودُنَا عُودُ نَبْعَةٍ
صَلِيبٌ وَفينَا قَسْوَةٌ لَا تُزَوَّرُ
” [And we are men whose wood of which our bows are made is hard wood of a neb'ah, and in us is hardiness not to be impugned and denied]: Aboo- 'Adnán says, [perhaps reading نُزَوَّرُ, which may be the correct reading,] that he means, we are not to be calumniated, because of our hardness, or hardiness, nor to be held weak. (TA.) ― -b3- زوّر نَفْسَهُ He stigmatized himself by the imputation of falsehood. (K.) [See also other explanations, below.] ― -b4- زوّر كَلَامَهُ (assumed tropical:) He falsified his speech; he embellished his speech with lies; syn. زَخْرَفَهُ. (Msb.) [See also below.] ― -b5- زوّر الكَذِبَ, (K,) inf. n. تَزْوِيرٌ, (S,) (tropical:) He embellished the lie. (S, K, TA.) ― -b6- زوّر شَيْئًا (tropical:) He removed, or did away with, the obliquity of a thing; (TA;) he rectified, adjusted, or corrected, it; (IAar, S, Msb, K;) whether good or evil; (IAar, Msb;) he beautified, or embellished, it. (AZ, S, K.) ― -b7- زوّر كَلَامًا (tropical:) He made speech right and sound, (As,) prepared it, (As, Msb,) and measured it, (As,) فِى نَفْسِهِ in his mind, (Msb,) before he uttered it: (As:) he rectified, adjusted, or corrected, it; and beautified, or embellished, it; as also ↓ تزوّرهُ , occurring in a verse of Nasr. Ibn-Seiyár. (TA.) And [in like manner] زوّر الحَدِيثَ (tropical:) He rectified, or corrected, the story, narrative, or tradition, removing, or doing away with, its obliquity: and ↓ تزوّرهُ he did so (زِوّرهُ) to himself. (A.) ― -b8- رَحِمَ ا@للّٰهُ ا@مْرَأً زَوَّرَ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ, a saying of El-Hajjáj, May God have mercy upon a man who rectifies, or corrects, himself, against himself: (S, * TA:) or, as some say, who stigmatizes himself by the charge of falsehood against himself: or who accuses himself against himself: like as you say, أَنَا أُزَوِّرُكَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ I accuse thee [of wrong] against thyself. (TA.) -A3- تَزْوِيرٌ is also syn. with تَشْبِيهٌ [The likening a thing to another thing; &c.]. (TA.) -A4- زوّر said of a bird, inf. n. as above, His crop (حَوْصَلَتُهُ) became high: (AZ, TA:) or became full. (TA.)