ظَالِعٌ
Root: ظلع
Full Definition
ظَالِعٌ
Limping, or halting; [or slightly lame;] applied to a camel, and a horse, [&c.,] [i. e.,] to a beast, to the male and the female alike, to the former as a part. n., and to the latter as a possessive noun, like غَامِزٌ; or the fem. of ظَالِعٌ is ظَالِعَةٌ, but one does not say غَامِزَةٌ: [pl. ظُلَّعٌ.] One says, لَا
أَنَامُ حَتَّى يَنَامَ ظَالِعُ الكِلَابِ [I will not sleep until the limping dog sleeps]; a prov., meaning, until the dogs become still; because the ظالع, of dogs, waits until there remains none other, and then copulates, and sleeps:
2 or the ظالع is the dog that is lusting for the female; for such does not sleep; and the saying is applied to him who is mindful of his affair, who does not neglect it:
3 or the bitch that is lusting for the male; because the dogs follow her, and will not let her sleep.
4 Also Inclining, or declining: like ضَالِعٌ.
5 And [Declining from the truth, or from that which is right; (see ظَلَعٌ;)] committing a sin, crime, fault, or misdeed.
6 And Suspected.
def.2 In the saying of Ru-beh,
2 or the ظالع is the dog that is lusting for the female; for such does not sleep; and the saying is applied to him who is mindful of his affair, who does not neglect it:
3 or the bitch that is lusting for the male; because the dogs follow her, and will not let her sleep.
4 Also Inclining, or declining: like ضَالِعٌ.
5 And [Declining from the truth, or from that which is right; (see ظَلَعٌ;)] committing a sin, crime, fault, or misdeed.
6 And Suspected.
def.2 In the saying of Ru-beh,
[And if ye women vie with the contracted and inclined eyes], he means المَظْلُوعَةَ, [see 1, last sentence,] using the word in the manner of a possessive noun.فَإِنْ تُخَالِجْنَ العُيُونَ الظُّلَّعَا
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