Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

زَافِرَةٌ ذ : see what next precedes. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A bulky camel; (K;) and so ↓ زُفَرٌ: (Sgh, K:) because he carries loads, or burdens. (TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) The كَاهِل [or withers, or upper portion of the back, next the neck, ] with what is next to it. (TA.) [Because loads are borne upon it.] ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) The side, or angle, (رُكْن,) of a building, (K,) upon which it [ mainly ] rests, or is supported: pl. زَوَافِرُ. (TA.) [Hence the expression] لِمَجْدِهِمْ زَوَافِرُ (tropical:) Their glory has props that strengthen it. (A, K. *) ― -b5- (tropical:) A man's aiders, or assistants, (S, TA,) and his kinsfolk, or tribe, syn. عَشِيرَة, (S, A, K,) as also زَوَافِرُ; because they bear his burdens: (A:) his aiders, or assistants, and particular friends. (TA.) You say, هُمْ زَافِرَتُهُمْ عِنْدَ السُّلْطَانِ (tropical:) They are the persons who undertake and perform their business with the Sultán. (S.) And قَوْمِهِ ↓ هُوَ زَافِرُ, and زَافِرَتُهُمْ, also, عِنْدَ السُّلْطَانِ, (tropical:) He is the chief of his people, and the bearer of their burdens, with the Sultán. (A.) See also زُفَرٌ, in two places. ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) A company, or congregated body, (K,) of men; (TA;) as also ↓ زُفَرٌ. (K, * TA.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) An army; or a collected portion thereof; or a troop of horse; syn. كَتِيبَةٌ, as also ↓ زُفَرٌ. (K.) ― -b8- (tropical:) [ A rib: pl. زَوَافِرُ.] You say فَرَسٌ شَدِيدُ الزَّوَافِرُ (tropical:) A horse having strong ribs. (A.) ― -b9- (tropical:) A bow: (K:) pl. زَوَافِرُ: (A:) so called as being likened to a rib: (TA:) [or perhaps from its sound.] ― -b10- (assumed tropical:) The part of an arrow exclusive of the feathers: (S, K:) or the part exclusive of two thirds, next the head: ('Eesà Ibn-'Omar, S, K:) or the part from a little below the head to the head: (ISh:) or about a third part of an arrow, and of a spear. (TA.) [Perhaps so called from its sound.] -A2- أُمُّ زَافِرَةٍَ The بَبْرَة [or female of the بَبْر]. (T in art. ام.)

أَزْفَرُ ذ A horse large in the sides: (K:) or in the ribs of the sides: or in the chest, or belly: or in the middle: (TA:) pl. زُفْرٌ. (K.) ― -b2- الزَّفْرَاآءُ, used as a subst., The pudendum; like المَعْطَاآءُ; syn. السَّوْءَةُ. (IAar, TA in art. معط.)

مُزَفَّرٌ ذ , or مُزْفَرٌ, and مُزَفَّرَةٌ: see زَفْرَةٌ, in two places.

مَزْفُورٌ ذ A beast, (K,) or camel, (TA,) having his joints strongly knit together. (K, TA.) You say also, هُوَ مَزْفُورُ الخَلْقِ [ He is strongly compacted in make ]. (TA.)

مُزْدَفَرٌ ذ The part of the breast (جُؤْجُؤ) of a horse from which the breathing termed زَفِير [see 1] proceeds. (AO, O, K.) ― -b2- See also زَفْرَةٌ, in two places.

أَزْفَلُ ذ [whether with or without tenween is not shown; but accord. to general opinion, a word of this measure, if not an epithet, is perfectly decl., i. e. with tenween;] Anger; and sharpness, or hastiness of temper. (K.)

أَزْفَلَةٌ ذ A company, or collection, (S, K, TA,) of men, and of camels: (TA:) and ↓ أَزْفَلَى is like أَجْفَلَى, (S,) syn. therewith, (K,) signifying a collection, or an assemblage, of any things. (TA.) One says, جَاؤُوا بِأَزْفَلَتِهِمْ (Fr, S, TA) and بِأَجْفَلَتِهِمْ (Fr, TA) They came with their company. (Fr, S, TA.) And جَاآؤُوا أَزْفَلَةً and أَجْفَلَةً They came in a company. (Fr, S and K * in art. جفل.)

أَزْفَلَى ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

اـِزْفَلَّةٌ ذ i. q. خِفَّةٌ [ Lightness, levity, &c.]: (Sb, S, K:) so in the saying, أَخَذْتُهُ اـِزْفَلَّةٌ [ Lightness, or levity, &c., seized him, or affected him ]. (Sb, S.)

1 زَفَنَهُ ذ , (TA, and Har p. 124,) aor. زَفِنَ , (TA,) inf. n. زَفْنٌ, (TA, Har,) in its primary acceptation, He pushed, or thrust, or he pushed, or thrust, away, (TA, Har,) vehemently: and he struck [or kicked ] with the leg, or hind leg. (Har.) You say, دَنَوْتُ مِنْهُ فَزَفَنَنِى I approached him, and he pushed me, or thrust me, from him. (TA.) And هُوَ يَزْفِنُ المَطِىَّ He drives, or urges on, the saddlecamel. (TA.) And الرِّيحُ تَزْفِنُ السَّحَابَ and التُّرَابَ [ The wind drives along the clouds and the dust ]. (TA.) And الأَمْوَاجُ تَزْفِنُ السَّفِينَةَ [ The waves drive along the ship ]. (TA.) And المُحْتَضَرُ يَزْفِنُ بِنَفْسِهِ, i. e. [ He who is at the point of death ] urges on his soul. (TA.) -A2- And زَفَنَ, aor. زَفِنَ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K, in the CK زَفُنَ ,) inf. n. زَفْنٌ (S, Mgh, Msb) and زَفَنَانٌ, (TA,) He danced; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and played, or sported. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Fátimeh, كَانَتْ تَزْفِنُ لِلْحَسَنِ She used to dance to El-Hasan. (TA.)

زَفْنٌ ذ : see what next follows.

زِفْنٌ ذ A covering which they make over their flat house-tops to protect them from the heat and dew of the sea; (K;) of the dial. of 'Omán; and ↓ زَفْنٌ is a dial. var. thereof. (TA.) ― -b2- And Straight and slender palm-branches stripped of their leaves [ and cut to certain required lengths ], conjoined, one to another, [ side by side, by means of split pieces of such branches passing through holes punched in the former, ] like the woven mat: (K:) [of such are made chests for cooking utensils and provisions &c.:] of the dial. of Azd. (TA.)

زَفُونٌ ذ , applied to a she-camel, i. q. زَبُونٌ [ That pushes, or thrusts, or that pushes, or thrusts, away, or that kicks, or strikes, and pushes, &c., her milker with her hind leg, or with her stiflejoint; or that is wont, or accustomed, to do so ]: or lame; as also ↓ زَافِنَةٌ; (K;) as though she danced in her gait, in consequence of lameness. (TA.)

زَفَّانٌ ذ A dancer: [whence] one says, الصُّوفِيَّةُ زَفَّانَةٌ جَفَّانَةٌ The Soofees are dancers, providers of food with their جَفَنَات [or bowls, which many of them, leading a mendicant-life, as darweeshes, are in the habit of always carrying with them]. (TA.)

زَافِنَةٌ ذ : see زَفُونٌ. ― -b2- Also A woman that suffices her man, or husband, in respect of the means of جِمَاع. (K.)

زِيَفْنٌ ذ (S, K) and زِيفَنٌّ (K) Tall; (K;) and strong; (S, K;) and some add, light, or active. (TA.) [In one copy of the S, I find it written زَيْفَن; which its measure in poetry shows to be wrong.]

زَيْزَفُونٌ ذ , applied to a she-camel, Swift, (K,) and light, or active: IJ says that it is app. of the measure فَيْفَعُولٌ, from الزَّفْنُ [as meaning “ the act of dancing ”]; or it may be a quadriliteralradical word: IB says that دَيْدَبُونٌ [which see in art. ددن] is similar to it. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, applied to a bow, That makes a sound, or sounds, in consequence of being put in motion: and in this sense it is said by IJ to be of the measure فَيْفَعُولٌ, from الزَّفْنُ. (TA.)

رَجُلٌ فِيهِ اـِزْفَنَّةٌ ذ A man in whom is motion, or commotion: and رَجُلٌ اـِزْفَنَّةٌ A man in a state of motion, or commotion: mentioned by Sb, and expl. by Seer. (TA.)

1 زَقَّ فَرْخَهُ ذ , said of a bird, aor. زَقُ3َ , (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. زَقٌّ; (M, Msb, K;) and ↓ زَقْزَقَهُ, (IDrd, M,) inf. n. زَقْزَقَةٌ; (K;) It fed its young one (S, M, K) with its mouth [or bill ]; (S, M; *) it ejected food [ from its bill ] into the mouth of its young one. (IDrd, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, مَا زِلْتُ أَزُقُّهُ بِالعِلْمِ (tropical:) [ I ceased not to instil into him, or to nourish him with, knowledge, or science ]. (TA.) -A2- زَقَّ بِسَلْحِهِ, mostly said of a bird, (M,) or زَقَّ بِذَرْقِهِ, said of a bird, (TA,) aor. as above, (M,) and so the inf. n.; (M, K, TA;) and ↓ زَقْزَقَ, (M, TA,) [بِسَلْحِهِ or] بِذَرْقِهِ, (TA,) inf. n. زَقْزَقَةٌ; (K;) He cast forth his excrement; (M;) it (a bird) muted, or dunged. (M, K, TA.)

2 زقّق ذ , (M, TA,) inf. n. تَزْقِيقٌ, (S, TA,) He stripped off a hide, or skin, by commencing from the head, (S, M, TA,) in order to make of it a زِقّ [q. v.]. (M, TA.) The doing thus is different from the mode now practised. (S.)

R. Q. 1 زَقْزَقَ ذ , inf. n. زَقْزَقَةٌ: see 1, above, in two places. ― -b2- [As inf. n. of the same verb,] زَقْزَقَةٌ also signifies A bird's uttering its cry, or voice, at dawn: (Lth. K:) or it is a word imitative of the cry, or voice, of the bird; (M, TA;) and he who thus explains it does not restrict it by adding “ at dawn. ” (TA.) ― -b3- Also [as an onomatopæia] A weak laughing. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b4- And The being light, or active, (K, and Har p. 375,) and quick. (Har ibid.) ― -b5- Also a word of the dial. of Kelb, app. meaning The being quick in speech, (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA,) and making one part thereof to follow close upon another. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) ― -b6- And The dancing a child; (Lth, S, M, K;) as also زِقْزَاقٌ, [which is likewise an inf. n. of the same verb,] (Lth, M, K,) with kesr. (K.)

زُقٌّ ذ one of the names of Wine: (Moheet, K: *) pl., as in the Moheet, زِقَقَةٌ; but accord. to the K, زَقَقَةٌ. (TA.)

زِقٌّ ذ [ A skin for holding wine &c.: ] any receptacle, consisting of a skin, that is used for wine and the like: or, as some say, not thus called unless it be stripped off from the part next the animal's neck: or, accord. to AHn, one in which wine is conveyed: (M:) or a skin for water or milk; syn. سِقَاآءٌ: (S, K:) or a skin of which the hair is clipped, not plucked out, (Lth, K,) for wine and the like, (Lth,) or for wine &c.: (K:) or a receptacle, (ظَرْفٌ, Msb, and Har p. 335,) of skin, in which are put clarified butter and vinegar and wine: (Har ibid.:) or, as some say, a ظَرْف smeared with زِفْت: (Msb:) AHát says that it is such as is smeared with زِفْت or with قِير: (TA:) pl. (of pauc., S) أَزْقَاقٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and أَزُقٌّ, mentioned by El-Hejeree, (M,) and (of mult., S) زِقَاقٌ (S, M, K) and زُقَّانٌ [in the CK erroneously written رُقّاقٌ]. (S, M, Msb, K, TA.)

زُقَّةٌ ذ A certain small bird; (K;) a certain aquatic bird, that remains still until it is almost seized, and then dives, and comes forth far off: pl. زُقَقٌ. (M.)

زَقَاقٌ ذ : see زَقَّاقٌ.

زُقَاقٌ ذ A سِكَّة [meaning street ]: (S, K:) or [rather a by-street, or lane; ] a narrow طَرِيق [here meaning street ], (M,) less than a سِكَّة, (M, Mgh, Msb,) whether a thoroughfare or not: (Mgh, Msb:) masc. (S, Msb) and fem.: (S, Msb, K:) Akh says that the people of El-Hijáz make الطَّرِيقُ and الصِّرَاطُ (S, Msb) and السَّبِيلُ (S) and السُّوقُ and الزُّقَاقُ (S, Msb) and الكَلَّاآءُ, which is the market of El-Basrah, (S,) fem.; and Temeem make them masc., (S, Msb,) i. e. all of these: (S:) pl. [of pauc., but also used as a pl. of mult.,] أَزِقَّةٌ (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K) and [of mult.] زُقَّانٌ. (Sb, S, M, K.) مَنْ هَدَىزُقَاقًا, occurring in a trad., means He who has guided the erring and the blind to his way. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الزُّقَاقُ [ The strait of Gibraltar; ] the passage of the sea between Tanjeh and El-Jezeereh el-Khad- rà, in the west, (K, TA,) by El-Andalus; called زُقَاقُ سَبْتَةَ. (TA.)

زَقَّاقٌ ذ The maker of the [ kind of skin called ] زِقّ. (TA.) -A2- Also, as in the copies of the Moheet and the A [and in the JK], or ↓ زَقَاقٌ, like سَحَابٌ, accord. to the K, but the former is probably the right, (TA,) One who drinks water (Moheet, A, K) at the table, (Moheet, K,) while having food in his mouth. (Moheet, A, K.) [As shown in the A, it is an epithet applied to a greedy man.]

زَقْزَاقَةٌ ذ Light, or active, in her walk; (K, TA;) applied to a woman. (TA.)

مُزَقَّقٌ ذ A ram skinned from his head to his hind leg; (Lh, TA;) as also ↓ مَزْقُوقٌ: (Lh, K, TA:) contr. of مُرَجَّلٌ (TA) and of مَرْجُولٌ. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And A skin of which the hair is clipped, not cut off. (K, TA.) ― -b3- And hence, as being like such a skin, (assumed tropical:) A head of which all the hair is cut off. (K, * TA.) And (assumed tropical:) A man having all the hair of his head cut off. (TA.) ― -b4- مُزَقَّقَةٌ A large she-camel: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) or a she-camel whose skin is filled with fat after her fleshiness. (En-Nadr, TA.)

مَزْقُوقٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

مُزَقْزَقٌ ذ Any work that is accomplished quickly. (K.)

1 زَقَبَهُ فِى جُحْرِهِ ذ , (JK, S, K, *) and فِىالكُوَّةِ, (TA,) He made him (a field-rat, S, TA) to enter [ into his hole, and into the aperture in a wall ]. (S, K, TA.) -A2- See also 7.

2 زقّب ذ , (AZ, TA,) inf. n. تَزْقِيبٌ, (AZ, K, TA,) He (the bird called مُكَّاآء) sent forth his voice, or cry. (AZ, K.)

7 انزقب ذ He entered (T, S, K) into his hole, (JK, S, K,) said of a field-rat; (JK, S;) as also ↓ زَقَبَ; (K;) or into a thing; as also انزبق: (T, TA:) or he entered into it and concealed himself. (IKtt, TA in art. نمس.)

زَقَبٌ ذ , (K,) and طَرِيقٌ زَقَبٌ, (Lh, S,) [in which the latter word may be either a substitute for the former or an epithet,] A narrow road or way: (Lh, S, K:) pl. زُقُبٌ: (TA:) and n. un. with ة; or this and the pl. are alike. (K, TA.) The phrase مَطَارِبٌ زَقَبٌ occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce مَطْرَبٌ; [the former word being with tenween for the sake of the measure;] or, as some relate it, زُقُبٌ: (S, TA:) in this instance, زقب is a substitute for مطارب: or, accord. to A'Obeyd, مطارب signifies narrow roads or ways, and زقب signifies narrow: (TA:) or طَرِيقٌ زَقَبٌ signifies an obscure narrow road or way. (JK.) ― -b2- One says also, رَمَيْتُهُ مِنْ زَقَبٍ, meaning I threw, or shot, at him, or it, from a near spot. (JK, K.)

1 زَقْمٌ ذ is syn. with لَقْمٌ [The act of gobbling a thing; i. e. eating it quickly, and hastily; or drawing it with the mouth, and eating it quickly: or swallowing it: (see also 5 and 8:)]: (AA, K, TA:) or لَقْمٌ شَدِيدٌ [ vehement gobbling; &c.]: (TA:) you say, زَقَمَهُ, aor. زَقُمَ , inf. n. زَقْمٌ, meaning لَقِمَهُ [ He gobbled it; &c.]. (TK.) [And par- ticularly] The eating what is termed الزَّقُّوم, as meaning a certain food in which are dates and fresh butter: (S:) [or so زَقْمُ زَقُّومٍ; for] you say, ↓ زقّم, inf. n. تَزْقِيمٌ, he ate الزَّقُّوم; as also زَقَمَهُ, inf. n. زَقْمٌ. (TA.)

2 زَقَّمَ see above. -A2- [Freytag explains it as signifying He gave a person a thing to eat; but without indicating his authority.]

4 ازقمهُ الشَّىْءَ ذ He made him to swallow the thing. (S, K. *)

5 تَزَقُّمٌ ذ is syn. with تَلَقُّمٌ [The swallowing a thing in a leisurely manner ]: (S, K:) [or simply the swallowing a thing: for] you say, تزقّم اللُّقْمَةَ [ He swallowed in a leisurely manner the gobbet, or morsel, or mouthful: or simply] he swallowed the gobbet. (TA. [See also 1 and 8.]) ― -b2- Also The drinking milk much, or abundantly: and the subst. is زقم [app. ↓ زَقْمٌ, as it is written without any syll. signs; meaning, I suppose, A copious draught of milk ]. (TA.) Accord. to IDrd, one says, تزقّم فُلَانٌ اللَّبَنَ, meaning Such a one drank immoderately of the milk; or drank the milk immoderately. (S, TA.)

8 اِزْدَقَمَهُ ذ He swallowed it. (S, K. [See also 1 and 5.])

زَقْمٌ ذ : see 5.

زَقْمَةٌ ذ Plague, or pestilence; syn. طَاعُونٌ. (Th, K.) One says, رَمَاهُ ا@للّٰهُ بِالزَّقْمَةِ [ God smote him, or may God smite him, with the plague, or pestilence ]. (TK.)

زَقُّومٌ ذ Fresh butter with dates; (M, K;) in the dial. of Ifreekeeyeh: (M, TA:) or a certain food of the Arabs, in which are dates and fresh butter. (S.) ― -b2- Also Any deadly food. (Th, TA.) ― -b3- The food of the people of the fire [ of Hell ]. (ISd, K.) A certain tree in Hell: (K:) [respecting which] I'Ab says that when the saying [in the Kur xliv. 43 and 44] اـِنَّ شجَرَةَ ا@لزَّقُّومِ طَعَامُ ا@لْأَثِيمِ [ Verily the tree of الزَّقُّوم shall be the food of the sinner ] was revealed, Aboo-Jahl said, “Dates and fresh butter: we will swallow it leisurely:” therefore God revealed [these other words of the Kur, xxxvii. 62 and 63,] اـِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِى أَصْلِ ا@لْجَحِيمِ طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُ رُؤُوسُ ا@لشَّيَاطِينِ [ Verily it is a tree coming forth in the bottom of Hell, the fruit thereof being as though it were the heads of the devils, or of terrible serpents, foul in aspect, having manes, as expl. by Bd]: (S:) it is thus called after a tree of which a description here follows. (Bd in xxxvii. 60.) ― -b4- A certain tree having small leaves, stinking (دَفِرَة), and bitter, found in Tihámeh: (Bd ubi suprà:) AHn says, (S, TA, [but this passage is only in one of my two copies of the S,]) on the authority of an Arab of the desert, of Azd es-Saráh, that the زَقُّوم is a dust-coloured tree, (S, TA,) having small round leaves, without thorns, (TA,) having a pungent odour (ذَفِرَة [perhaps a mistranscription for دَفِرَة i. e. stinking ]), and bitter, having knots in its stems, (S, TA,) many in number, and a small and very weak flower, which the bees eat, or lick, for making honey; (S, TA;) its flower is white; and the heads of its leaves are very foul, or ugly: (S, * TA:) [or] a certain plant in the desert (البَادِيَة), having a flower resembling in form the jasmine. (K.) ― -b5- Also A certain tree in Areehà [i. e. Jericho ], of [ the district called ] the Ghowr, having a fruit like the date, sweet, with an astringent and bitter quality; the stone of which has an oil greatly esteemed for its beneficial properties, wonderful of operation in dispersing the cold kinds of flatus, and phlegmatic disorders, and pains of the joints, and gout in the foot (نِقْرِس), and sciatica, and the flatus that is confined in the socket of the hip: the weight of seven drachms thereof is drunk three days or five days; and sometimes, or often, it makes to rise and stand the crippled and those who are deprived of the power of motion: it is said that its original was the [species of] اـِهْلِيلَج [or myrobalan] called كَابُلِىّ, which the Benoo-Umeiyeh removed (from India, TA), and planted in Areehà; and when it had long remained, the soil of Areehà altered it from the natural character of the اهليلج. (K.)

1 زَكَأَهُ ذ , (S, K,) aor. زَكَاَ , (K,) inf. n. زَكْءٌ, (S,) He paid it in ready money, quickly, or promptly; or was quick, or prompt, in doing so. (ISk, S.) [The verb is doubly trans. in this sense:) you say, زَكَأَهُ أَلْفًا He paid him a thousand (meaning a thousand dirhems, TA) in ready money, quickly, or promptly. (K, TA.) And زَكَأْتُهُ حَقَّهُ, inf. n. as above, I paid him his due; as also نَكَأْتُهُ حقّه, inf. n. نَكْءٌ. (ISh, TA) ― -b2- And زَكَأَتِ النَّاقَةُ بِوَلَدِهَا, (S, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (S,) The she-camel cast forth her young one at her hind legs, or hind feet, (S, and so in some copies of the K,) or at her hind leg, or hind foot: (so in other copies of the K:) or, in labour, cast forth her young one. (T, TA.) And one says also, قَبَحَ ا@للّٰهُ أُمًّا زَكَأَتْ بِهِ, and لَكَأْتُ به, i. e. [ May God remove from good, or prosperity, a mother that cast him forth from her womb, or] that brought him forth. (TA.) ― -b3- And زَكَأَهُ, aor. as above, (K,) and so the inf. n., (TA,) He beat him, or struck him. (K.) So in the phrase زَكَأَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ; [ He beat him, or struck him, with a hundred stripes of the whip ]. (TA.) ― -b4- And زَكَأَ جَارِيَتَهُ; He compressed his young woman, or female slave. (K.) -A2- زَكَأَ اـِلَيْهِ He had recourse to him, or it, for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging; he leaned, or stayed himself, upon him, or it. (AZ, K.)

8 اِزْدَكَأَ مِنْهُ حَقَّهُ ذ He took, or received, from him his due; (K;) as also انتكأ. (TA.)

زُكَأٌ ذ : see what next follows, in two places.

زَجُلٌ زُكَأَةٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ زُكَأٌ, (K,) and مَلِىْءٌ زُكَأَةٌ (S) and ↓ زُكَأٌ, (TA,) and النَّقْدِ ↓ زُكَاآءُ, (S, K,) A wealthy man, quick, or prompt, in paying: (S, * K:) [or rather this is the meaning when you combine the two epithets ملىء and زكأة or زكأ: otherwise the meaning is only a man quick, or prompt, in paying: for] you say, لَتَجِدَنَّهُ زُكَأَةً نُكَأَةً meaning Thou wilt assuredly find him to be one who pays what he owes (TA) without putting off. (K in art. نكأ.)

زُكَاآءُ النَّقْدِ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

مَزْكَأٌ ذ A refuge; an asylum; a place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging: [and applied to a man:] a poet says, speaking of Bishr Ibn-Marwán, وَنِعْمَ مَزْكَأُ مَنْ ضَاقَتْ مَذَاهِبُهُ [ And excellent, or most excellent, is the refuge of him whose ways have become strait ]. (TA.)

1 زَكَرَ ذ , (A, K,) aor. زَكُرَ , (TK,) inf. n. زَكْرٌ; (TA;) and ↓ زكّر, (K,) inf. n. تَزْكِيرٌ; (TA;) (tropical:) He filled (A, K) a vessel, (TA,) or a water-skin. (A.)