ضحو

ضَحَا

To appear or become apparent.

Attested in the expression ضَحَا الطَّرِيقُ, said of a road becoming visible or distinct.

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ضَحِيَ

To become cloudless.

Said of a night that clears of clouds.

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ضَحِيَ

To become white or predominantly white.

Applied especially to a horse whose whiteness predominates over its blackness.

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ضَحَا

To perish or die.

A figurative expression in which a person's shade becomes sun and therefore disappears.

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ضَحَا

To go forth into the sunshine or expose oneself to sunlight.

Also used with لِلشَّمْسِ for going out into the sun.

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ضَحِيَ

To sweat.

A Classical usage with the imperfect يَضْحَى.

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ضَحَّى

To come to someone during the time of the forenoon.

A temporal Form II use, comparable to coming in the morning.

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ضَحَّى

To pasture livestock in the forenoon, or to feed people a morning meal.

Used of grazing sheep, goats, or camels during ضُحًى and of providing or inviting people to the corresponding meal.

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ضَحَّى

To act gently, deliberately, or without haste.

In the proverbial expression ضَحِّ رُوَيْدًا, it can also imply slaughtering or sacrificing deliberately and without haste.

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ضَحَّى

To slaughter or sacrifice an animal.

The sacrifice is conventionally associated with the time of ضُحًى and the days of sacrifice, though the verb may be used for the act during those days more generally.

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ضَاحَى

To become exposed to the sun, with vegetation consequently drying up.

Said of lands or countries whose exposure to the sun dries their herbage.

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أَضْحَى

To enter upon the time of the forenoon.

A time-of-day verb, comparable to أَصْبَحَ for entering the morning.

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أَضْحَى

To become occupied with, set about, or begin doing something during the first part of the day.

Like other time-of-day verbs, it may be rendered simply as “became” when followed by an imperfect verb or participle.

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أَضْحَى

To perform the supererogatory prayer associated with the forenoon.

A specialized usage referring to the prayer of ضُحَى.

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أَضْحَى

To withdraw or go far away from an affair or from water.

Used of a person withdrawing from an affair and of birds going far from water.

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أَضْحَى

To make something apparent, show it, or reveal it.

Can be transitive with an object or used with عَنْ to make an affair manifest.

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أَضْحَى

To deprive someone of protection or compassion, or to cause someone's protective presence to disappear.

An idiomatic figurative use of going out from shade into the sun; it can also allude to death or loss.

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تَضَحَّى

To eat during the forenoon or eat the morning meal.

Comparable to تَغَدَّى, with emphasis on eating at the time called ضُحًى.

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ضُحًى

The sun.

A transferred use based on the sun's appearance during the period called ضُحًى.

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ضُحًى

Perspicuity or plainness of meaning.

In the expression مَا لِكَلَامِهِ ضُحًى, used figuratively of speech or poetry lacking clarity.

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ضَحْيَانٌ

Exposed to the sun or growing under its direct exposure.

Applied to sun-exposed places and objects, including a mountain top or a staff matured and hardened in the sun.

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ضَحْيَانٌ

A person who eats during the forenoon.

A conventional noun for one who eats at the time called ضُحًى.

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ضَحَاءٌ

The later forenoon period, approaching midday.

The period after ضُحًى, when the day is high or the sun has risen substantially.

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ضَحَاءٌ

The morning meal, and by extension pasture eaten at that time.

Named from the time in which the food or pasture is taken.

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ضَاحِيَةٌ

An outer or exposed place or tract, especially one open to the sun or lacking shade.

Includes an exterior place, an unenclosed land, and an exposed desert or tree; the term may describe a place with no protective shade.

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ضَاحِيَةٌ

The exposed or visible side of the head.

Used in the expression بَدَا بِضَاحِي رَأْسِهِ, to appear or show that side of the head.

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ضَاحِيَةٌ

An outer, exterior, or exposed side, region, or tract of something.

By extension, it denotes outer districts, people living outside a town, open-country palm trees, projecting body parts, the sides of a watering-trough, and the heavens.

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ضَاحِيَةٌ

Openly or in the open.

In فَعَلَهُ ضَاحِيَةً, the adverb describes doing something openly.

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ضَاحِيَةٌ

Livestock that drink during the forenoon.

Applied especially to cattle, sheep, or goats drinking at the time called ضُحًى.

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أَضْحَى

Gray or predominantly white in color.

Applied especially to a horse; the feminine form describes a corresponding mare or other feminine noun.

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أَضْحَى

Bright, clear, or shining.

Applied to a cloudless night or bright day, and also to the brightness of a moon, lamp, or wick.

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أَضْحَى

A person or member of a people, in the idiomatic expression أَيُّ الضَّحْيَاءِ.

This meaning belongs to the cited idiom and is not a general meaning of the temporal noun.

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أَضْحًى

The collective sacrificial victims, and hence the day or festival of sacrifice.

The masculine form may denote the day of sacrifice, while the collective noun denotes the sacrificial victims.

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إِضْحِيَانٌ

A plant resembling chamomile.

A plant name recorded as a separate lexical use.

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أُضْحِيَّةٌ

A sheep, goat, camel, bovine, or other animal slaughtered as a sacrifice.

Traditionally slaughtered during the time of ضُحًى on the day of sacrifice; the term also has the listed plural forms أَضَاحِيّ and ضَحَايَا.

• Lane · entry 17580

مَضْحَاةٌ

Land from which the sun is hardly or never absent.

An exposed tract receiving continuous or nearly continuous sunlight.

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مُضْطَحٍ

A person entering upon the time of the forenoon.

A participial noun for one who reaches or enters the period called ضُحًى.

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ضَحْيَاءُ

A woman whose pubic hair does not grow.

A specialized feminine usage describing a woman whose عَانَة is bare of hair.

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