ضوع

ضُوَعٌ ذ (S, O, Msb, K) and ضِوَعٌ (AHeyth, O, K) A certain night-bird, (S, O, Msb, K,) [ a species of owl, i. e.,] of the kind termed هَام: (S, O, Msb:) or [ a male owl; ] the male of the بُوم; (S, O, Msb, K;) accord. to El-Mufaddal: (S, O:) said by ADk to be a bird that utters a scream when it perceives the daybreak: (O:) or the كَرَوَان [a name now given to the stonecurlew, or charadrius œdicnemus ]: (K:) or a certain black bird, resembling the غُرَاب [or crow ], (Et-Táïfee, O, K,) smaller than this, but red in its wings, these being of a roseate colour: so says AHát, on the authority of Et-Táïfee: accord. to others, he says, it is a small bird, less than the دُخَّل and the حُمَّر; (O;) and in like manner says Th: (TA:) also that the ↓ ضُوَعَة [which may be the fem. or a n. un.] is of a colour inclining to yellow, dusky and blackish externally, and yellow and ash-coloured within, short in the neck and tail, smaller than the sparrow; and that it is thus called because of the cry that it utters at the commencement of daybreak: accord. to El-Hanashee, the ضُوَع is a bird such as is termed أَبْغَث [q. v.], resembling the domestic hen, (O,) the flesh of which is good: (O, K:) but he adds that it has been said by some to be not a bird: and in another place of the book he says that the ↓ ضُوَعَة is black, like the غُرَاب, a little larger than the ضُجْرَة, red in the خَوَافِق: (O: [but الخَوَافِق is an obvious mistranscription for الخَوَافِى: see خَافِيَةٌ:)] the pl. is أَضْوَاعٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and ضِيعَانٌ. (S, O, Msb, K.)