مَكَانٌ زَلَقٌ
1.
, (S,) or زَلَقٌ [alone], (K,) which is originally a verbal noun, (S,) and
زَلِقٌ and
زَلْقٌ (K) and
زَلَاقَةٌ and
مَزْلَقٌ and
مَزْلَقَةٌ, (S, K, TA, [the last two erroneously written in the CK مِزْلَق and مِزْلَقَة,]) all signify the same; (K;) A slippery place; a place on which the foot does not remain firm, or fixed. (S, TA.) Hence, in the Qur'an, 18:38, فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًا زَلَقًا, i. e., [So that it shall become] smooth ground, with nothing in it, or with no plants in it: or, according to Akh, such that the feet shall not stand firmly upon it. (TA.) A poet says, (TA,) namely, Mohammad Ibn-Besheer, (Ham p. 551,)
[Appoint for thy foot, before the stepping, its place upon which it shall fall, or, as in the Ham p. 522, simply its place, (مَوْضِعَهَا,)] for he who goes upon a slippery place, in consequence of inadvertence, slips]. (TA.)قَدِّرْ لِرِجْلِكَ قَبْلَ الخَطْوِ مَوْقِعَهَافَمَنْ عَلَا زَلَقًا عَنْ غِرَّةٍ زَلَجَا