ظلع

ظَالِعٌ ذ Limping, or halting; [or slightly lame; ] applied to a camel, and a horse, [&c.,] (S,) [i. e.,] to a beast, (TA,) to the male and the female alike, (Lth, O, K, TA,) to the former as a part. n., and to the latter as a possessive noun, (TA,) like غَامِزٌ; (Lth, O, TA;) or the fem. of ظَالِعٌ is ظَالِعَةٌ, (S, O, K, TA,) but one does not say غَامِزَةٌ: (O, TA:) [pl. ظُلَّعٌ.] One says, لَا أَنَامُ حَتَّى يَنَامَ ظَالِعُ الكِلَابِ [ I will not sleep until the limping dog sleeps ]; (O, K;) a prov., (O,) meaning, until the dogs become still; (O, K;) because the ظالع, of dogs, waits until there remains none other, and then copulates, and sleeps: (As, O, K:) ― -b2- or the ظالع is the dog that is lusting for the female; for such does not sleep; and the saying is applied to him who is mindful of his affair, who does not neglect it: ― -b3- or the bitch that is lusting for the male; because the dogs follow her, and will not let her sleep. (O, K.) ― -b4- Also Inclining, or declining: (O, K:) like ضَالِعٌ. (TA.) ― -b5- And [ Declining from the truth, or from that which is right; (see ظَلَعٌ;)] committing a sin, crime, fault, or misdeed. (TA.) ― -b6- And Suspected. (S, O, K.) -A2- In the saying of Ru-beh, فَاـِنْ تُخَالِجْنَ العُيُونَ الظُّلَّعَا [ And if ye women vie with the contracted and inclined eyes ], he means المَظْلُوعَةَ, [see 1, last sentence,] using the word in the manner of a possessive noun. (TA.)