Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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دحرج دحض دحق


1. ⇒ دحض

دَحَضَتْ رِجْلُهُ, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَدْحَضُ}, (Ṣ,) inf. n. دَحْضٌ (Ṣ, A) and دُحُوضٌ, (A, TA,) His foot slipped. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.) And دَحَضَ said of a man, He slipped. (Mṣb.)

Root: دحض - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

دَحَضَتِ الشَّمْسُ, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) aor. and inf. ns. as above, (TA,)The sun declined (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) towards the place of setting, (TA,) عَنْ كَبِدِ السَّمَآءُ (Ṣ) or عن بَطْنِ السمآء (A) [from the meridian]; as though it slipped. (TA.)

Root: دحض - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

دَحَضَتْ حُجَّتُهُ, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَدْحَضُ}, (Mṣb,) inf. n. دُحُوضٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or دَحْضٌ, (Mṣb,)His argument, plea, allegation, or evidence, was, or became, null, or void. (Ṣ, A,* Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Root: دحض - Entry: 1. Dissociation: B

See also 4, in two places.


4. ⇒ ادحض

ادحض, (A, TA,) inf. n. إِدْحَاضٌ, (Ṣ,) He made (Ṣ, A, TA) a man's foot, (A, TA,) and a man, (TA,) to slip; (Ṣ, A, TA;) as alsoدَحَضَ↓. (TA.)

Root: دحض - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

It (rain) made a place slippery. (TA.)

Root: دحض - Entry: 4. Signification: A3

He (God, Ṣ, Mṣb, or a man, Ḳ) annulled, or rendered null or void, an argument, a plea, an allegation, or an evidence: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) he rebutted it; as alsoدَحَضَ↓, inf. n. دَحْضٌ. (TA; but in this instance, only the inf. n. of the latter verb is mentioned.) Thus in the Ḳur [xviii. 54, and xl. 5], لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الحَقَّThat they may, or might, rebut thereby the truth. (TA.)


دَحْضٌ

دَحْضٌ A slippery place; as alsoدَحَضٌ↓ (Ṣ, Ḳ) andدَحُوضٌ↓ (O, Ḳ) andمِدْحَضٌ↓ (Freytag, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees,) [or مَدْحَضٌ?]: pl. دِحَاضٌ, (Ḳ,) [a pl. of the second,] like as جِبَالٌ is pl. of جَبَلٌ. (TA.)

Root: دحض - Entry: دَحْضٌ Signification: A2

Also Water that causes slipping: pl. أَدْحَاضٌ. (TA.)


دَحَضٌ


دَحُوضٌ


دَاحِضٌ

دَاحِضٌ [Slipping] has for a pl. دُحْضٌ: occurring in a trad., in the phrase دُحْضُ الأَقْدَامِ, meaning † those having no firmness, or stability, nor determination, or resolution, in affairs. (TA.)

Root: دحض - Entry: دَاحِضٌ Signification: A2

حُجَّتُهُمْ دَاحِضَةٌ, in the Ḳur [xlii. 15], means ‡ Their argument, or plea, or allegation, is null, or void: or, as IDrd says, on the authority of AO; it means مَدْحُوضَةٌ [rebutted]. (TA.)


مِدْحَضٌ / مَدْحَضٌ

مِدْحَضٌ [or مَدْحَضٌ?]: see دَحْضٌ.


مَدْحَضَةٌ

مَدْحَضَةٌ A cause of slipping; syn. مَزَلَّةٌ. (Ḳ.) You say, هٰذِهِ مَدْحَضَةٌ لِلْقَدَمِ [This is a cause of slipping to the foot]. (A.) And مَكَانٌ مَدْحَضَةٌ, in a trad. respecting the Sirát, means A place on which the feet will not remain firm. (TA.)


مِدْحَاضٌ

مِدْحَاضٌ A place in which one slips much, or often: pl. مَدَاحِضُ. (TA.)


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