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زيل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

6 تَزَاْيَلَ see 5, in three places. ― -b2- [Hence,] التَّزَايُلُ signifies also الاِحْتِشَامُ; (K, TA;) a tropical meaning: (TA:) one says, تزايل عَنْهُ, meaning اِحْتَشَمَهُ [i. e. (tropical:) He was, or became, abashed at him ]: (O, TA:) because the مُحْتَشِم separates himself, and shrinks, from another. (TA.) ― -b3- [See also مُتَزَايِلَةٌ, whence it seems that one says, of a woman, تَزَايَلَتْ, meaning She veiled her face from men: see likewise 3.]

Derived headwords

تَزَاْيَلَverb
  1. 1.
تزايل عَنْهُ