Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

زَحْلَفَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. زَحْلَفَةٌ, (Ṣ,) He rolled him, or it, down or along. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

And He pushed, impelled, repelled, or drove away, or back, him, or it. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) [Hence,] one says, زَحْلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَنَّا شَرَّكَ May God put away, or ward off, from us thy mischief. (TA.)

زَحْلَفَ لِفُلَانٍ أَلْفًا He gave to such a one a thousand. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.)

زَحْلَفَ الإِنَآءَ He filled the vessel. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.)

زَحْلَفَ فِى الكَلَامِ He hastened, or was quick, in speech. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.)

تَزَحْلَفَ He, or it, rolled down or along. (Ṣ,* Ḳ,* TA.) One says, يَتَزَحْلَفُونَ فِيهِ [They roll down it]; namely, a smoothed descending, or sloping, place. (IAạr, T, Ṣ.)

And He, or it, became pushed, impelled, repelled, or driven away or back. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) [Hence,] El-Ajjáj says,

* وَالشَّمْسُ قَدْ كَادَتْ تَكُونُ دَنَفَا *

* أَدْفَعُهَا بِالرَّاحِ كَىْ تَزَحْلَفَا *

[And the sun had almost become near to setting, and to turning yellow; I repelling it with the palm of the hand in order that it might be warded off; تَزَحْلَفَا being for تَتَزَحْلَفَ]. (Ṣ.) See also the next paragraph.

One says also تَزَحْلَفَتِ الشَّمْسُ meaning The sun inclined to setting: or declined from the meridian, at midday. (TA.)

اِزْحَلَفَّ, as also اِزْلَحَفَّ, (Mgh, Ḳ,) He was, or became, far; he stood, or kept, aloof; (AʼObeyd, Mgh, TA;) he removed, withdrew, or retired to a distance; (AʼObeyd, Mgh, Ḳ, TA;) as alsoتَزَحْلَفَ↓; (TA;) عَنْ كَذَا from such a thing: (Mgh:) for ex., from adultery, or fornication. (AʼObeyd, Mgh, TA.)

زُحْلُوفٌ Smooth rock: to which is likened the portion of flesh and sinew bordering the backbone, when fat. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, TA.)

زِحْلِيفٌ A slippery place. (TA.) [See also what next follows: and see زِحْلِيلٌ.]

زُحْلُوفَةٌ The traces of the sliding of children from the top to the bottom of a hill: (Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ:) of the dial. of the people of El-ʼÁliyeh: in the dial. of Temeem, with ق [in the place of ف]: (Ṣ:) or [a sloping slide, or rolling-place; i. e.] a smoothed descending, or sloping, place; (IAạr, Ṣ, Ḳ;) because they roll down it (يَتَزَحْلَفُونَ فِيهِ): (Ṣ:) or a slippery place of a mountain of sands, upon which children play; and likewise on smooth rock: (Aboo-Málik, TA:) pl. زَحَالِيفُ and زَحَالِفُ. (Ṣ.)

زَحَالِفُ a pl. of زُحْلُوفَةٌ. (Ṣ.)

حُمُرٌ زَحَالِفُ الصُّقْلِ Asses having smooth and fat bellies. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, TA.)

Also Small دَوَابّ [i. e. reptiles, or insects], having legs, that walk, resembling ants: (Ḳ:) or, as in the O, having legs resembling ants. (TA.)

[مُتَزَحْلِفٌ, accord. to Freytag, occurs in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning Smooth, applied to rock.]