زَكَأَهُ
Root: زكأ
Form: 1
Full Definition
زَكَأَهُI
, Present.T
ـَ Verbal.Noun زَكْءٌ, He paid it in ready money, quickly, or promptly; or was quick, or prompt, in doing so. [The verb is doubly trans. in this sense:) you say, زَكَأَهُ أَلْفًا
He paid him a thousand in ready money, quickly, or promptly. And زَكَأْتُهُ حَقَّهُ, Verbal.Noun as above, I paid him his due; as also نَكَأْتُهُ حقّه, Verbal.Noun نَكْءٌ.
2 And زَكَأَتِ النَّاقَةُ بِوَلَدِهَا, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, The she-camel cast forth her young one at her hind legs, or hind feet, or at her hind leg, or hind foot: or, in labour, cast forth her young one. And one says also, قَبَحَ ٱللّٰهُ 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.
3 And زَكَأَهُ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He beat him, or struck him. So in the phrase زَكَأَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ; [He beat him, or struck him, with a hundred stripes of the whip].
4 And زَكَأَ جَارِيَتَهُ; He compressed his young woman, or female slave.
def.2 زَكَأَ إِلَيْهِ He had recourse to him, or it, for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging; he leaned, or stayed himself, upon him, or it.
2 And زَكَأَتِ النَّاقَةُ بِوَلَدِهَا, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, The she-camel cast forth her young one at her hind legs, or hind feet, or at her hind leg, or hind foot: or, in labour, cast forth her young one. And one says also, قَبَحَ ٱللّٰهُ 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.
3 And زَكَأَهُ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He beat him, or struck him. So in the phrase زَكَأَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ; [He beat him, or struck him, with a hundred stripes of the whip].
4 And زَكَأَ جَارِيَتَهُ; He compressed his young woman, or female slave.
def.2 زَكَأَ إِلَيْهِ He had recourse to him, or it, for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging; he leaned, or stayed himself, upon him, or it.
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