دوح

دَاحٌ داح Variegated, decorated, or embellished, work, [or gewgaws, ] which one waves about to children, and with which one sooths, pacifies, or quiets, them: (S, K:) [a coll. gen. n. : n. un. with ة, meaning a piece of such work, or a gewgaw: ] whence, (K,) one says, ↓ الدُّنْيَا دَاحَةٌ [ The world is a gewgaw, or gaudy toy ]. (S, K.) [And hence,] ↓ دَاحَةُ [as a proper name] means (assumed tropical:) The world, or present state of existence: so said Aboo- Hamzeh the Soofee, in explanation of the saying, لَكَانَ المَوْتُ لِى رَاحَهْ ↓ لَوْ لَا حُبَّتِى دَاحَهُ [ Were it not for my loving the world, death would be to me ease ]: and AA confirmed this. (T, TA.) ― -b2- And A kind of variegated, or figured, cloth or garment. (A, K.) [In this sense also it is a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة.] You say, فُلَانٌ يَلْبَسُ الدَّاحَ Such a one wears variegated, or figured, garments. (A, TA.) And ↓ جَاآءَ وَعَلَيْهِ دَاحَةٌ [ He came having upon him a variegated, or figured, garment ]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- A bracelet consisting of several distinct portions like the strands of a rope, twisted together. (K.) ― -b4- Lines, or streaks, upon a bull &c. (K.) ― -b5- The species of perfume called خَلُوق. (K.)