زَهْوٌ
Root: زهو
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زَهْوٌ
[is the Verbal.Noun of زَهَا : and also has the significations here following.
2 ] Pride [as implying self-elevation]: vanity, or vain behaviour: boasting, or glorying: and wrongdoing, injustice, injuriousness, or tyranny.
3 A false, or vain, saying; syn. بَاطِلٌ; a lie, or falsehood; or an exaggeration in speech. You say, قَالَ زَهْوًا [He said a false, or vain, saying, &c.].
4 A beautiful aspect.
5 The blossoms, or flowers, of a plant.
6 The brightness of a plant by its becoming red or yellow; as also زُهُوٌّ , like عُلُوٌّ, [in the CK كالزَّهْوِ is here put in the place of كَالزُّهُوِّ,] and زَهَآءٌ , like سَحَابٌ, as the unrestricted mention of it requires, but in some of the copies of the K with damm [i. e. زُهَآءٌ].
7 Also, [or نَبَاتٌ زَهْوٌ, as in the TK,] A plant beautiful and bright, or fresh.
8 And Dates beginning to ripen (بُسْرٌ) that are becoming coloured (مُلَوِّنٌ), (so in some copies of the S and K, and in the Mgh, or مُتَلَوِّنٌ [which signifies the same], Har p. 416), or that have become coloured (مُلَوَّنٌ); as also زُهُوٌّ , like عُلُوٌّ, thus in the handwriting of Az in the T: [here, again, in the CK we find كالزَّهْوِ put in the place of كَالزُّهُوِّ: or perhaps it should be ; as appears from what follows in the next sentence:] in this sense, زَهْوٌ is an Verbal.Noun used as a subst. One says, when redness and yellowness appear in palm-trees, قَدْ ظَهَرَ فِيهِ الزَّهْوُ [Dates becoming, or become, red, or yellow, have appeared in them; i. e. فِى النَّخْلِ]: and the people of El-Hijáz say, , with damm: [Fei says,] the subst. from زَهَا النَّخْلُ meaning “ the palm-trees showed redness and yellowness in their fruit ” is الزهو [i. e. ], with damm; and AHát says that this term is used only when the colour of the date has become free from admixture in redness or yellowness.
9 You say also ثَوْبٌ زَهْوٌ A red and beautiful garment or piece of cloth: and ثِيَابٌ زَهْوَةٌ and [red and beautiful garments &c.].
2 ] Pride [as implying self-elevation]: vanity, or vain behaviour: boasting, or glorying: and wrongdoing, injustice, injuriousness, or tyranny.
3 A false, or vain, saying; syn. بَاطِلٌ; a lie, or falsehood; or an exaggeration in speech. You say, قَالَ زَهْوًا [He said a false, or vain, saying, &c.].
4 A beautiful aspect.
5 The blossoms, or flowers, of a plant.
6 The brightness of a plant by its becoming red or yellow; as also زُهُوٌّ , like عُلُوٌّ, [in the CK كالزَّهْوِ is here put in the place of كَالزُّهُوِّ,] and زَهَآءٌ , like سَحَابٌ, as the unrestricted mention of it requires, but in some of the copies of the K with damm [i. e. زُهَآءٌ].
7 Also, [or نَبَاتٌ زَهْوٌ, as in the TK,] A plant beautiful and bright, or fresh.
8 And Dates beginning to ripen (بُسْرٌ) that are becoming coloured (مُلَوِّنٌ), (so in some copies of the S and K, and in the Mgh, or مُتَلَوِّنٌ [which signifies the same], Har p. 416), or that have become coloured (مُلَوَّنٌ); as also زُهُوٌّ , like عُلُوٌّ, thus in the handwriting of Az in the T: [here, again, in the CK we find كالزَّهْوِ put in the place of كَالزُّهُوِّ: or perhaps it should be ; as appears from what follows in the next sentence:] in this sense, زَهْوٌ is an Verbal.Noun used as a subst. One says, when redness and yellowness appear in palm-trees, قَدْ ظَهَرَ فِيهِ الزَّهْوُ [Dates becoming, or become, red, or yellow, have appeared in them; i. e. فِى النَّخْلِ]: and the people of El-Hijáz say, , with damm: [Fei says,] the subst. from زَهَا النَّخْلُ meaning “ the palm-trees showed redness and yellowness in their fruit ” is الزهو [i. e. ], with damm; and AHát says that this term is used only when the colour of the date has become free from admixture in redness or yellowness.
9 You say also ثَوْبٌ زَهْوٌ A red and beautiful garment or piece of cloth: and ثِيَابٌ زَهْوَةٌ and [red and beautiful garments &c.].
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