أَزَلُّ
Root: زل
Full Definition
أَزَلُّ
Quick, or swift.
2 See also زُلْزُلٌ.
3 Also Light [of flesh] in the hips, or haunches: and having little flesh in the posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; syn. أَرْسَحُ; in the copies of the K, erroneously, أَشَجُّ: or it signifies one who is more than أَرْسَح; whose waist-wrapper will not retain its hold: fem. زَلَّآءُ, applied to a woman; i. q. رَسْحَآءُ: or having no buttock: pl. زُلٌّ. السِّمْعُ الأَزَلُّ means The wolf that has little flesh in the rump and thighs, (الذِّئْبُ الأَرْسَحُ, S, in the K ذِئْبٌ أَرْسَحُ,) begotten between the wolf and the she-hyena; (S, K; [the words والخِفَّةُ والقِتالُ والشَّرُّ here immediately following in the CK should be erased; their proper place being in the second of the lines below in that edition, where they are again inserted; as observed by Freytag;]) and this epithet (الازلّ) is inseparable: or, accord. to IAth, الأَزَلُّ primarily signifies the small in the buttock: and as an epithet applied to the wolf, the light, or active; and it is said to be from زَلَّ signifying “ he ran. ” It is said in a prov., هُوَ أَسْمَعُ مِنَ السِّمْعِ الأَزَلِّ [He is more quick of hearing than the سمع that is lean in the rump and thighs; or than the light, or active, سمع].
4 قَوْسٌ زَلَّآءُ A bow from which the arrow slips, by reason of the rapidity with which it goes forth.
2 See also زُلْزُلٌ.
3 Also Light [of flesh] in the hips, or haunches: and having little flesh in the posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; syn. أَرْسَحُ; in the copies of the K, erroneously, أَشَجُّ: or it signifies one who is more than أَرْسَح; whose waist-wrapper will not retain its hold: fem. زَلَّآءُ, applied to a woman; i. q. رَسْحَآءُ: or having no buttock: pl. زُلٌّ. السِّمْعُ الأَزَلُّ means The wolf that has little flesh in the rump and thighs, (الذِّئْبُ الأَرْسَحُ, S, in the K ذِئْبٌ أَرْسَحُ,) begotten between the wolf and the she-hyena; (S, K; [the words والخِفَّةُ والقِتالُ والشَّرُّ here immediately following in the CK should be erased; their proper place being in the second of the lines below in that edition, where they are again inserted; as observed by Freytag;]) and this epithet (الازلّ) is inseparable: or, accord. to IAth, الأَزَلُّ primarily signifies the small in the buttock: and as an epithet applied to the wolf, the light, or active; and it is said to be from زَلَّ signifying “ he ran. ” It is said in a prov., هُوَ أَسْمَعُ مِنَ السِّمْعِ الأَزَلِّ [He is more quick of hearing than the سمع that is lean in the rump and thighs; or than the light, or active, سمع].
4 قَوْسٌ زَلَّآءُ A bow from which the arrow slips, by reason of the rapidity with which it goes forth.
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