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وضح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

وَاضِحٌ ذ and ↓ وَضَّاحٌ [but the latter has an intensive signification] Apparent, or plainly apparent; overt; conspicuous; manifest; notorious; plain; obvious; or evident; (L, K;) clear, or unobscured; exposed to view; displayed; laid open; disclosed, or uncovered. (So accord. to the explanation of the verb in the Msb.) ― -b2- Perspicuous language. (The Lexicons passim.) ― -b3- Also the ↓ latter, A man of white, or fair, and beautiful, complexion: (S, L, K:) of beautiful and smiling countenance. (L.) ― -b4- See مُتَوَضِّحٌ. ― -b5- Also the ↓ latter, (tropical:) Leprous. Hence Jedheemeh El-Abrash was called الوَضَّاحُ. (S.) ― -b6- ↓ الوَضَّاحُ The day. (L, K.) The night is called الدَّهْمَانُ. (L.) ― -b7- ↓ بِكْرُ الوَضَّاحِ The prayer of morning, or daybreak. The prayer of nightfall is called ثِنْىُ دَهْمَانَ. (L, K [but in the CK and a MS. copy of the K, for دَهْمَانَ, we find دُهْمَانَ].) ― -b8- ↓ عَظْمُ وَضَّاحٍ, (L, K,) and عُظَيْمُ وَضَّاحٍ, (L,) A certain game ( of the children of the Arabs of the desert, L,) in which children take a white bone and throw it in the darkness of night, and then disperse themselves in search of it: (L, K:) he who finds it wins. (L.) [See more in art. عظم.] ― -b9- ↓ هُوَ مِنْكَ أَدْنَى وَاضِحَةٍ He is plainly apparent to thee, as though he had become white. (Th.) ― -b10- رَجُلٌ وَاضحُ الحَسَبِ, and ↓ وَضَّاحُهُ, (tropical:) A man as though he were conspicuous, clean, or pure, and white, with respect to rank or quality, nobility, reputation, or the like. (L.) ― -b11- In like manner one says, ↓ لَهُ النَّسَبُ الوَضَّاحُ (tropical:) He is of conspicuous and pure race, or lineage. (TA.) ― -b12- وَاضِحٌ (assumed tropical:) An illustrious man. (EsSaadee.) ― -b13- [And so] مِن النَّاسِ وَأَوْبَاشٌ ↓ أَوْضَاحٌ [ Illustrious people, and mixed people of the baser sort; ] companies of people of various tribes. No sing. of اوضاح in this sense has been heard. (L.) ― -b14- الوُضَّخُ [pl. of وَاضِحٌ] The stars called الكَوَاكِبُ الخُنَّسُ [namely, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, ] when in conjunction with the bright stars of the Mansions of the Moon. (L.)

Derived headwords

وَاضِحٌ
  1. 1.
ثِنْىُ دَهْمَانَ
رَجُلٌ وَاضحُ الحَسَبِ
مِن النَّاسِ وَأَوْبَاشٌ