zaEiymN * Responsible, answerable, amenable, surety, or guarantee. (S, Msb, K.) Hence, in the Kur [xii. 72], waA^anaA bihi zaEiymN [ And I am responsible for it ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also The chief, lord, master, or prince, or a people; (Msb, K;) or [in the CK “ and ”] their spokesman: (K:) their chief is thus called because he speaks for them; like as he is called qayolN and miqowalN : (Ham p. 705:) pl. zuEamaA='u . (K.) -A2- Also Described; syn. mawoSuwfN . (Har p. 204.)
The corpus record — Arabic
زَعِيم
za'iym
zaEiymN * Responsible, answerable, amenable, surety, or guarantee. (S, Msb, K.) Hence, in the Kur [xii. 72], waA^anaA bihi zaEiymN [ And I am responsible for it ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also The chief, lord, master, or prince, or a people; (Msb, K;) or [in the CK “ and ”] their spokesman: (K:) their chief is
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Where it lives
- The Quran 2 · 0.16/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- زَعِيمٌ Quran 12:72 (Yusuf 72)
- زَعِيمٌ Quran 68:40 (Al-Qalam 40)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.