زَوِيلٌ
Root: زول
Full Definition
زَوِيلٌ
: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places.
def.2 Also The side; syn. جَانِبٌ; and so زَوَالٌ : thus in the sayings, زَالَ زَوِيلُهُ and زَالَ , meaning [app. His side became in a state of commotion, or it quivered,] by reason of fright: [or] زَوِيلٌ signifies the heart: so in the saying, زَوِيلُهُ [His heart became removed from its place]: a prov., applied to one whom an event that has disquieted him has befallen: as also : [see also two other renderings of the former phrase in the next preceding paragraph:] Dhu-r-Rummeh says, describing the egg of an ostrich,
def.2 Also The side; syn. جَانِبٌ; and so زَوَالٌ : thus in the sayings, زَالَ زَوِيلُهُ and زَالَ , meaning [app. His side became in a state of commotion, or it quivered,] by reason of fright: [or] زَوِيلٌ signifies the heart: so in the saying, زَوِيلُهُ [His heart became removed from its place]: a prov., applied to one whom an event that has disquieted him has befallen: as also : [see also two other renderings of the former phrase in the next preceding paragraph:] Dhu-r-Rummeh says, describing the egg of an ostrich,
meaning زِيلَ قَلْبُهَا مِنَ الفَزَعِ [i. e. And a white thing will not take fright, and flee from us, or will not shrink from us, while its mother, when she sees us, her heart becomes removed from its place by fright in consequence of the approach of us]: (S in art. زيل, and Meyd:) or, as some relate it, زَالَ مِنَّا زَوِيلُهَا [which means her heart quits its place &c.]: and the former reading may mean the same as this. (IB, TA in art. زيل.)وَيَيْضَآءُ لَا تَنْحَاشُ مِنَّا وَأُمُّهَا إِذَا مَا رَأَتْنَا مِنَّا زَوِيلُهَا
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