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زَعَقَ

Root: زعق

Form: 1

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زَعَقَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun زَعْقٌ, He called out, or cried out. You say; زَعَقْتُ بِهِ, Verbal.Noun as above, I called out, or cried out, to him: of the dial. of Syria.
2 And زَعَقَ بِدَوَابِّهِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He drove away his beasts: or he called out, or cried out, to his beasts, and drove them away quickly.
3 And زَعَقَهُ, and زَعَقَ بِهِ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun in both cases, He frightened him; as also : and They frightened him: or they frightened him so that he became brisk, lively, or sprightly: or you say, الخَوْفُ حَتَّى زَعِقَ [Fear affected him so that he became brisk, lively, or sprightly, yet fearful]: accord. to As, one says , and the epithet applied to the object is مَزْعُوقٌ , differing form rule; but accord. to El-Umawee, one says زَعَقْتُهُ, and the epithet so applied is مَزْعُوقٌ .
4 زَعَقَتِ الرِّيحُ التُّرَابَ The wind raised the dust: or made it to go to and fro: syn. أَثَارَتْهُ, or أَمَارَتْهُ.
5 زَعَقَتْهُ العَقْرَبُ The scorpion stung him.
6 زَغَقَ القِدْرَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He put much salt into the cooking-pot; as also .

def.2 زَعِقَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun زَعَقٌ; and زُعِقَ, like عُنِىَ; and : He feared by night: but in the T, the restriction to the night is not added; nor is it in the instance of the last of these verbs in the O.
2 And زَعِقَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun زَعَقٌ; and زُعِقَ; He was, or became, brisk, lively, or sprightly, but with fear; as also .

def.3 زَعُقَ, Verbal.Noun زَعَاقَةٌ [and زُعُوقَةٌ], It was, or became, bitter, so that it could not be drunk [by reason of its bitterness, or saltness, or bitterness and saltness, or burning saltness, or intense bitterness or saltness: see زُعَاقٌ].
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