ضحك

3 مُضَاحَكَةٌ ذ [inf. n. of ضاحكهُ] signifies [The contending, or vying, in laughing, with another; or the laughing with another; or] the laughing together. (KL.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, النَّوْرُ يُضَاحِكُ الشَّمْسَ (assumed tropical:) [ The flowers vie in brightness with the sun ]. (TA.) ― -b3- And اـِنَّ رَأْيَكَ لَيُضَاحِكُ المُشْكِلَاتِ (tropical:) [ Verily thy judgment makes sport with ambiguities ]; said to him to whom confused and dubious things are apparent and known. (TA.)