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زلق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تزلّق ذ He, or it, slipped, or slid, along; (KL;) like تزلّج. (S and TA in art. زلج. [See also 1.]) One says, تزلّقت الغُدَّةُ بَيْنَ الجِلْدِ وَاللَّحْمِ [ The ganglion slipped about between the skin and the flesh ]. (M in art. ديص.) ― -b2- [Also It was, or became, smooth, or slippery: a signification indicated in the M, in art. ملس, where it is coupled with اِسْتَوَى.] ― -b3- He anointed his body with oils and the like. (JK.) ― -b4- He ornamented, or adorned, himself; (Aboo-Turáb, K, TA;) as also تزبّق: (Aboo-Turáb, TA:) and led an easy, and a soft, or delicate, life, so that his colour, and the exterior of his skin, had a shining, or glistening. (K, TA.)

Derived headwords

تزلّقverb
  1. 1.
تزلّقت الغُدَّةُ بَيْنَ الجِلْدِ وَاللَّحْمِ