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The corpus record — Arabic

زَهُوق

zahuwq

zahuwqN * (tropical:) A thing passing away, or coming to nought; or that passes away, or comes to nought; as also ↓ zaAhiqN . (K, TA.) Hence, in the Kur [xvii. 83], A_in~a AlbaATila kaAna zahuwqFA , i. e. (tropical:) [ Verily what is false, or vain, ] is a thing that passes away, or comes to nought.

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What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

zahuwqN * (tropical:) A thing passing away, or coming to nought; or that passes away, or comes to nought; as also ↓ zaAhiqN . (K, TA.) Hence, in the Kur [xvii. 83], A_in~a AlbaATila kaAna zahuwqFA , i. e. (tropical:) [ Verily what is false, or vain, ] is a thing that passes away, or comes to nought. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A deep well; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ zaAhiqapN ; [in the TA zaAhiqN ;] and in like manner both are applied to a place of destruction ( matolafapN ); (JK;) and to a matolafap [app. meaning a desert in which people perish] as meaning far-extending. (Ham p. 23.) And in like manner, (S,) the former is also applied [app. as an epithet] to a faj~ [or road, or depressed road,] of an overpeering, or overhanging, mountain. (S, K.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) Light, or active; syn. xafiyfN . (JK.)

In the wild

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.