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أَزْلَمُ

Root: زلم

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أَزْلَمُ and مُزَلَّمٌ , as also [أَزْنَمُ and زَنِمٌ and] مُزَنَّمٌ [applied to a camel], Having the end of the ear cut, a [portion termed] or زَنَمَة being left [hanging] to it: this is done only to camels of generous race, and to sheep or goats: the fem. of the first is زَلْمَآءُ: [see also زَنِمٌ: or] أَزْلَمُ, fem. as above, is applied to a goat, as meaning having what are termed زَلَمَتَانِ [dual of زَلَمَةٌ expl. above].
2 الأَزْلَمُ الجَدَعُ signifies The mountain-goat; agreeably with the original meaning; and so : (K: [in the CK, وَ is erroneously omitted between the words الوَعِلُ and الصَّغِيرُ الجُثَّةِ:]) and الزَّلْمَآءُ signifies The female mountain-goat.
3 And also, i. e. الازلم الجذع, because it is [as though it were] always جَذَع, not becoming old, Time, or fortune, that is hard, or rigorous, in its course, abounding with trials and deaths: accord. to Yaakoob, so called because deaths hang upon it, and follow it. They said, أَوْدَى بِهِ الأَزْلَمُ الجَذَعُ and الأَزْنَمُ الجَذَعُ, [q. v.] i. e. Time, or fortune, [&c.,] destroyed it; relating to a thing that has gone, and passed, and of which one has despaired. [See also art. جذع.]
4 الزَّلْمَآءُ also signifies The female of the hawk kind.
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