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زَهُوقٌ

Root: زهق

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زَهُوقٌ A thing passing away, or coming to nought; or that passes away, or comes to nought; as also زَاهِقٌ . Hence, in the Kur [xvii. 83], إِنَّ البَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا, i. e. [Verily what is false, or vain,] is a thing that passes away, or comes to nought.
2 A deep well; as also ; [in the TA زَاهِقٌ;] and in like manner both are applied to a place of destruction (مَتْلَفَةٌ); and to a مَتْلَفَة [app. meaning a desert in which people perish] as meaning far-extending. And in like manner, the former is also applied [app. as an epithet] to a فَجّ [or road, or depressed road,] of an overpeering, or overhanging, mountain.
3 Also Light, or active; syn. خَفِيفٌ.
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