zāwala

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زاوَلَ

Word

Verb · Form III

Root

ز و ل

Forms

Present
يُزاوِلُ
Verbal noun
زَوال

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Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ زاوَلَيُزاوِلُ—
she هِيَ زاوَلَتتُزاوِلُ—
they two (m.) هُما زاوَلايُزاوِلانِ—
they two (f.) هُما زاوَلَتاتُزاوِلانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ زاوَلُوايُزاوِلُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ زاوَلْنَيُزاوِلْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ زاوَلْتَتُزاوِلُزاوِلْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ زاوَلْتِتُزاوِلِينَزاوِلِي
you two أَنْتُما زاوَلْتُماتُزاوِلانِزاوِلَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ زاوَلْتُمتُزاوِلُونَزاوِلُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ زاوَلْتُنَّتُزاوِلْنَزاوِلْنَ
I أَنا زاوَلْتُأُزاوِلُ—
we نَحْنُ زاوَلْنانُزاوِلُ—

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • زَالَ Form I It went away; passed away; departed; removed; shifted
    , aor. يَزُولُ, (K,) and, accord. to the K, also يَزَالُ, which is rare, on the authority of Aboo- 'Alee, but this is the aor. of زَالَ like خَافَ, [which has a different meaning from the former verb,] (MF, TA,) inf. n. زَوَالٌ (K) and زُوُولٌ (Lh, K) [which in all its senses except one mentioned below may app. be pronounced also زُوأُولٌ, like حُوأُولٌ for حُوُولٌ, pl. of حَوْلٌ,] and زَوِيلٌ and زَوْلٌ, (K, TA,) the last thus, with fet-h, accord. to a rule of the K, but in some of the copies زُولٌ, with damm, (TA,) and زَوَلَانٌ, (K,) It went away; passed away; departed; removed; shifted; (K, TA;) was, or became, remote, or absent; ceased to be or exist, or came to nought; (TA;) as also ↓ اِزْوَلَّ, inf. n. اِزْوِلَالٌ; (K;) or, accord. to the O, ↓ اِزْوَأَلَّ, like اِطْمَأَنَّ. (TA.) [See also 7.] Hence, الدُّنْيَا وَشِيكَةُ الزَّوَالِ [The world, or worldly enjoyment or good, is quick in passing away, or coming to nought]. (TA.) And زال زَوَالُهُ, and زَوَالُهَا: see زَوَالٌ: and for the former see also زَوِيلٌ. And زال زَوِيلُهُ, and زَوِيلُهَا: see زَوِيلٌ. And زال الشَّىْءُ عَنْ مَكَانِهِ, (S, TA,) or مَوْضِعِهِ, (Msb,) aor. يَزُولُ, inf. n. زَوَالٌ (S, Msb, TA) &c., as above, (TA,) The thing removed, went away, [or ceased,] from its place; it left, or quitted, its place. (TA.) And زُلْتُ عَنْ مَكَانِى, inf. n. زَوَالٌ and زُوُولٌ, [I went away, &c., from my place.] (K.) [And زال عَنْهُ, said of any affection of the mind or body, It went away, passed away, or ceased, from him; it left him, or quitted him.] And زَالُوا عَنْ مَكَانِهِمْ They turned away from their place; or returned, or went back, and fled, from it. (TA.) And زال عَنِ الرَّأْىِ, aor. يَزُولُ, inf. n. زُوُولٌ, [He turned, or swerved, from the opinion, or judgment, or sentiment.] (Lh, TA.) And زال alone, aor. يَزُولُ, He, or it, quitted his, or its, place. (AHeyth, TA.) And He removed from one town, or country, to another. (TA.) And زالت الخَيْلُ بِرُكْبَانِهَا, (K,) inf. n. زِيَالٌ, (TA,) The horses removed from their place with their riders. (K, TA. [Said in the TA to be tropical; but I see not why.]) ― -b2- Hence, زالت الشَّمْسُ, inf. n. زَوَالٌ and زُوُولٌ, without ء, (K,) as Th says, (TA,) and زِيَالٌ and زَوَلَانٌ, (tropical:) The sun declined from the meridian. (K, TA.) [And sometimes it signifies (assumed tropical:) The sun set: see 1 in art. دلك.] ― -b3- And hence, but not with زُوُولٌ for an inf. n. in the senses expl. in this sentence and the next following it, (TA,) زال النَّهَارُ, (K, TA,) inf. n. زَوَالٌ (TA) [and app. زِيَالٌ and زَوَلَانٌ], (tropical:) (tropical:) The day became advanced, the sun being somewhat high; syn. اِرْتَفَعَ: (K, TA:) or, as some say, went away; or departed. (TA.) And زال الظِّلُّ, (TA,) or الظِّلِّ ↓ زال زَايأِلُ, (K, TA,) (tropical:) (tropical:) The sun became high, and the shade contracted, or decreased, or went away, at midday. (K, * TA.) ― -b4- زال ظعنهم, [thus in the TK (ed. of Boolák), i. e. ظَعْنُهُمْ, thus in the K, and thus only, the verb being indicated by a preceding phrase; in the TA زالت ظعنهم. which is an evident mistranscription;] inf. n. زَيْلُولَةٌ, (K,) like قَيْلُولَةٌ [an inf. n. of قَالَ, aor. يَقِيلُ; but more properly compared to دَيْمُومَةٌ, an inf. n. of دَامَ, aor. يَدُومُ]; (TA;) [a phrase which may be rendered Their journeying ceased for a while;] expl. as meaning اِيأْتَوَوْا مَكَانَهُمْ ثُمَّ بَدَا لَهُمْ [i. e. they abode in their place: then an opinion occurred to them different from their former opinion, so that it turned them therefrom, inducing them to remove]: (K:) in the K is added عَنْهُ; but this should be omitted: the passage is taken from the M; in which عَنْهُ refers to Lh as the authority. (TA.) ― -b5- زال [having for its inf. n., app., زَوَالٌ and زَوِيلٌ and زَوْلٌ (see the first of these below)] signifies also It moved; or was, or became, in a state of motion, commotion, or agitation; syn. تَحَرَّكَ: so in the saying, رَأَيْتُ شَبَحًا ثُمَّ زَالَ [I saw a bodily form or figure: then it moved, &c.]. (TA.) And one says, هُوَ يَزُولُ فِىالنَّاسِ, meaning He moves much among men, or the people, and does not remain still, or stationary. (TA.) ― -b6- زَالَتْ لَهُ ↓ زَايأِلَةٌ means شَخَصَ لَهُ شَخْصٌ [A figure seen from a distance rose to his view]. (TA.) ― -b7- And زال بِهِ السَّرَابُ The mirage raised, or elevated, (رَفَعَ,) and made apparent, him, or it. (TA.) -A2- مَا زَالَ يَفْعَلُ كَذَا &c.: see in art. زيل. -A3- زال, aor. يَزُولُ, also signifies He affected acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect, cleverness, ingeniousness, skilfulness, knowledge, or intelligence: or did so, not having it: syn. تَظَرَّفَ. (IAar, TA.) [See also 5.] -A4- [As a trans. verb, it belongs to art. زيل, and app. to the present art. also.] See 4. You say, زال زَوَالَهُ, or زال ٱللّٰهُ زَوَلَهُ; and زال زَوَالَهَا: see زَوَالٌ. And زِيلَ زَوِيلُهُ and زَوِيلُهَا and زَوَالُهُ: see زَوِيلٌ: and for the first, see also زَوَالٌ. ― -b2- And زالهُ He separated himself from him; (K;) as also زايلهُ. (S and K in art زيل [to which the latter exclusively belongs.])
  • زَوَّلَ Form II Open entry
    see 4: ― -b2- and see also 5.
  • زاولهُ Form III He laboured, exerted himself, strove, struggled, contended, or conflicted, with him, or it, to prevail, overcome, or...
    , inf. n. مُزَاوَلَةٌ (S, K) and زِوَالٌ, (K,) i. q. عَالَجَهُ [as meaning He laboured, exerted himself, strove, struggled, contended, or conflicted, with him, or it, to prevail, overcome, or gain the mastery or possession, or to effect an object: and accord. to the KL and PS and some other lexicons, it signifies also he treated him medically; which is another meaning of عالجه; but of this meaning I have not found any ex.]: and حَاوَلَهُ [as meaning he sought to obtain it, or effect it; or did so by artful, or skilful, management]: (S, * K:) and طَالَبَهُ [he made a demand on him, or prosecuted a claim upon him]. (K.) [Accord. to the TA, it seems to be used properly in relation to real things, and tropically in relation to ideal things. One says, زاول الصَّيْدَ He strove to gain possession of, or to catch, i. e. he hunted, the animals of the chase. (See طَرَدَ.)] And زَاوَلْتُهُ عَنِ الأَمْرُ [I strove with him to avert him, or to turn him back, from the affair]. (S, in art. جحس.) Zuheyr says, " فَبِتْنَا وُقُوفًا عِنْدَ رَأْسِ جَوَادِنَا يُزَاوِلُنَا عَنْ نَفْسِهِ وَنُزَاوِلُهْ " [And we passed the night standing at the head of our courser, he striving with us to repel us from himself, and we striving with him to master him]. (S.) And a man said to another, who upbraided him with cowardice, وَٱللّٰهُ مَا كُنْتُ جَبَانًا وَلٰكِنِّى زَاوَلْتُ مُلْكًا مُوأَجَّلًا (assumed tropical:) [By God I was not a coward, but I strove, or sought, to preserve a possession appointed for a fixed time; i. e., to preserve my life though its term is fixed: see the Kur iii. 139]. (S.) One says also, يُزَاوِلُ حَاجَةً لَهُ i. e. يُحَاوِلُهَا (tropical:) [He seeks to accomplish a thing that is an object of want to him; or does so by artful, or skilful, management]: a tropical phrase. (TA.) And مَلِلْتُ مُزَاوَلَةَ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) [I loathed, or was averse from, striving, or seeking, to accomplish this affair]. (TA.)
  • ازالهُ Form IV He removed it; made it to go away, pass away, depart, remove, or shift
    , (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِزَالَةٌ; (TA;) and ↓ زوّلهُ, (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَزْوِيلٌ; (O, TA;) and ↓ اِزْدَالَهُ, [originally اِزْتَالَهُ,] inf. n. اِزْدِيَالٌ (O,) this being syn. with إِزَالَةٌ; (K;) He removed it; made it to go away, pass away, depart, remove, or shift; (O, K, TA;) [and made it to cease to be or exist, or to come to nought: did away with it; annulled it: effaced, or obliterated, it:] and ↓ زِلْتُهُ, aor. أَزَالُهُ and أَزِيلُهُ, [which see in art. زيل,] signifies the same as أَزَلْتُهُ and زَوَّلْتُهُ. (K.) You say, ازالهُ عَنِ المَوْضِعِ He removed it from the place. (MA: and the like is said in the K.) [And ازال عَنْهُ كَذَا He removed from him such a thing; made it to go away, pass away, or cease, from him; or to leave him, or quit him; he freed him from it, or rid him of it. And ازالهُ عن رَأْيِهِ He, or it, made him to turn, or swerve, from his opinion, or judgment, or sentiment.] And ازال ٱللّٰهُ زَوَالَهُ and زَوَالَهَا: see زَوَالٌ. [See also 4 in art. زيل.]
  • تزوّلهُ Form V He made him, or it, to come
    and ↓ زوّلهُ i. q. أَجَآءَهُ [He made him, or it, to come]: so says AAF, on the authority of AZ: in the copies of the K, erroneously, أَجَادَهُ. (TA.) -A2- And تزوّل, (K,) said of a young man, (TA,) He attained the utmost degree of acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect, or of cleverness, ingeniousness, skilfulness, knowledge, or intelligence. (K.) [See also 1, near the end of the paragraph.]
  • تزاولوا Form VI They laboured, exerted themselves, strove, struggled, contended, or conflicted, one with another, to prevail,...
    i. q. تَعَالَجُوا [They laboured, exerted themselves, strove, struggled, contended, or conflicted, one with another, to prevail, overcome, or gain the mastery or possession, or to effect an object]. (S, K. [See also 3.])
  • انزال Form VII It was, or became, removed
    It was, or became, removed; or made to go away, pass away, depart, remove, or shift. (S, * TA.) ― -b2- And انزال عَنْهُ He became separated from him. (K.) [See also 7 in art. زيل.]
  • ازدالهُ Form VIII Open entry
    : see 4, first sentence.
  • ازولّ Form IX Open entry
    : see 1, first sentence.
  • إِسْتَزْوَلَ Form X He looked at it to see if it quitted its place
    [اِستزالهُ He looked at it to see if it quitted its place.] One says, اِسْتَحِلْ هٰذَا الشَّخْصَ وَٱسْتَزِلْهُ, meaning Look thou at this figure seen from a distance to see if it move and if it quit its place. (AHeyth, O, TA.)
  • اِزْوَأَلَّ Open entry
    : see 1, first sentence.
  • زَوْلٌ Light, agile, or active: acute or sharp or quick in intellect, clever, ingenious, skilful, knowing, or intelligent
    an inf. n. of 1 in the first of the senses expl. above. (K, * TA.) ― -b2- See also زَوَالٌ. -A2- As an epithet applied to a man, (S,) Light, agile, or active: acute or sharp or quick in intellect, clever, ingenious, skilful, knowing, or intelligent: (S, K:) at whose acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect, &c., one wonders: (ISk, S:) fem. with ة; (S, K;) said to mean skilful, knowing, or intelligent, (S, TA,) as also the masc., (TA,) and cunning: (S, TA:) and a servant-girl who is sharp and effective in the conveying of messages: and applied to a woman as meaning بَرْزَةٌ لِلرِّجَالِ [who goes or comes forth to men, and with whom they sit, and of whom they talk, and who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous, and is intelligent; &c.: see art. برز]: (TA:) pl. masc. أَزْوَالٌ (K, TA) and fem. زَوْلَاتٌ; the former applied to young men, and the latter to young women. (TA.) ― -b2- Courageous; (K, TA;) in consequence of whose courage, men are abashed (يَتَزَايَلُوا [as though زَوْلٌ in this sense belonged to art. زيل]). (TA.) ― -b3- And Liberal, bountiful, munificent, or generous: (K, * TA:) pl. أَزْوَالٌ. (TA.) -A3- (tropical:) A wonder, or wonderful thing: (S, K, TA:) pl. أَزْوَالٌ. (S.) One says, هٰذَا زَوْلٌ مِنَ الأَزْوَالِ (tropical:) This is a wonder of the wonders. (TA.) And one says also, [using it as an epithet,] سَيْرٌ زَوْلٌ (assumed tropical:) A journeying, or pace, wonderful in respect of its quickness and briskness or lightness: and شَتْوَةٌ زَوْلَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A winter, or winters, wonderful in respect of the severity and cold thereof. (TA.) [See also أَزْوَلُ.] ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A trial, or an affliction; syn. بَلَآءٌ. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A form, or figure, that appears in the night [and by which one is frightened: see مُزَاوَلٌ]. (TA.) (tropical:) A form, or figure, of a man or some other thing, that one sees from a distance: or a person: syn. شَخْصٌ: (K, TA:) as also ↓ زَايأِلَةٌ: see 1, near the end of the paragraph. (TA.) -A4- The فَرْج [i. e. the anterior pudendum, or the pudenda,] of a man. (K.) One says, كَشَفَ زَوْلَهُ [He uncovered his فرج]. (TK.) -A5- And A hawk. (K.)

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