joker, jester

, (S, A, K,) aor. يَزِيحُ, inf. n. زَيْحٌ (S, K) and زُيُوحٌ (MA, K) and زِيُوحٌ (K) and زَيَحَانٌ; (MA, K; [in the CK, erroneously, زَيْحان;]) and ↓ انزاح; (A, K;) It (a thing, S) became distant, or remote: (S, A, K:) it went, went away, passed away, or departed. (S, K.) You say, زَاحَتْ عِلَّتُهُ (S, A, MA) and ↓ انزاحت (A) His pretext, pretence, or excuse, [or his malady,] became remote [or removed], or went away. (MA.) And زَاحَ عَنِّى البَاطِلُ What was false, or vain, ceased, passed away, or went away, from me. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b2- And زَاحَ, aor. as above, i. q. تَأَخَّرَ [He, or it, went back or backwards, &c.]. (TA in art. زح.)

He made it (a thing, S) to be distant, or remote: [he removed it, did away with it, or caused it to cease:] he made it to go, go away, pass away, or depart. (S, K.) Hence the saying of El-Aashà, قَدْ أَزَحْنَا هُزَالَهَا [We had caused her leanness to cease]. (S.) And أَزَحْتُ عِلَّتَهُ: (S, A:) ازاح عِلَّتَهُ signifies He removed his pretext, pretence, or excuse; [or his malady;] or did away with it. (MA.)

see 1, in two places.

A place to which one [goes away, or may go away; or] removes, or may remove, far away. (Ham p. 329.)