زهق

زَهُوقٌ ذ (tropical:) A thing passing away, or coming to nought; or that passes away, or comes to nought; as also ↓ زَاهِقٌ. (K, TA.) Hence, in the Kur [xvii. 83], اـِنَّ البَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا, i. e. (tropical:) [ Verily what is false, or vain, ] is a thing that passes away, or comes to nought. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A deep well; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ زَاهِقَةٌ; [in the TA زَاهِقٌ;] and in like manner both are applied to a place of destruction (مَتْلَفَةٌ); (JK;) and to a مَتْلَفَة [app. meaning a desert in which people perish] as meaning far-extending. (Ham p. 23.) And in like manner, (S,) the former is also applied [app. as an epithet] to a فَجّ [or road, or depressed road,] of an overpeering, or overhanging, mountain. (S, K.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) Light, or active; syn. خَفِيفٌ. (JK.)