ندح

1 نَدَحَهُ, aor. ـَ (A, K,) inf. n. نَدْحٌ; and ↓ ندّحهُ, (A,) inf. n. تَنْدِيحٌ; (TA;) He made it (a place, A) spacious, roomy, wide, or ample. (A, K.) b2: Hence the saying of Umm-Selemeh to 'Aïsheh, (when she desired to go forth to El-Basrah, TA,) قَدْ جَمَعَ القُرْآنُ ذَيْلَكِ فَلَا تَنْدَحِيهِ, i. e., [The Kur-án hath drawn together, or contracted, thy skirt; therefore] do not widen it, (S, L, K,) or do not spread it abroad, (L,) by thy going forth to El-Basrah: (S, L, K:) the pronoun ه refers to the word ذيل: the speaker alluded to the words of the Kur-án, [xxxiii. 33,] وَقَرْنَ فِى بُيُوُتِكُنَّ وَلَا تَبَرَّجْنَ. (L.) Accord. to one relation, the last words are لا تَبْدَحِيهِ, i. e., do not open it. (S.) b3: نَدَحَتِ النَّعَامَةُ أُنْدُوحَةً The ostrich excavated and made wide a hollow place for her eggs. (A.) b4: أَتْرَبَ فَنَدَحَ He became possessed of wealth like the dust, and enlarged his mode of life, and scattered his property. A proverb. (MF, from Meyd.) 2 نَدَّحَ see 1.3 نادحهُ He vied with him, or contended with him for superiority, in multitude, or abundance. (R.) 5 تنّدحت الغَنَمُ مِن مَّرَابِضِهَا, (S, K,) or فِى مَرَابِضِهَا, (A, L, &c.,) and ↓ انتدحت, (TA,) The sheep, or goats, became dispersed from, (S, K,) or in, (A, L, &c.,) their nightly restingplaces, and became distended by repletion. (S, A, L, K.) 8 إِنْتَدَحَ see 5.9 إِنْدَحَّ بَطْنُهُ, inf. n. إِنْدِحَاحٌ, His belly became distended by reason of repletion. (S.) This, says IB, is its proper art., not art. دح. (TA, art. دح, in which J also mentions it.) F says, that J is in error in mentioning this verb, as also in mentioning إِنْدَاحَ بَطْنُهُ, inf. n. إِنْدِيَاحٌ, in the present art.; the proper place of the former being in art. دح; and that of the latter, in art. دوح: but MF says, that J has merely mentioned them here because of the resemblance of their radical letters and significations to the radical letters and significations belonging to this art. (TA.) نَدْحٌ and ↓ نُدْحٌ (K) and ↓ مَنْدُوحَةٌ and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ (S) Spaciousness; roominess; width; ampleness (L, K.) A2: Also, ↓ نُدْحٌ (S, K) and نَدْحٌ and ↓ نَدْحَةٌ and ↓ نُدْحَةٌ and ↓ مَنْدُوحَةٌ and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ (K) A spacious, roomy, wide, or ample, tract of land; (S, K;) as also أَرْضٌ مَنْدُوحَةٌ: (L:) and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ a spacious, roomy, wide, or ample, place: (S:) pl. (of the first and second words, TA) أَنْدَاحٌ; (S, K;) and pl. of مندوحة, مَنَادِيحُ, and by poetic licence مَنَادِحُ; (TA;) which is allowable also in other cases than those of poetical licence: (MF;) and it (منادح) also signifies deserts; or waterless deserts. (S.) b2: Also ↓ وَادٍ نَادِحٌ A wide valley. (L.) b3: ↓ لَكَ فِى هٰذِهِ الدَّارِ مُنْتَدَحٌ Thou hast ample space, or room, in this house. (A.) b4: ↓ لِى عَنْ هٰذَا الْأَمْرِ مَنْدُوحَةٌ, and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ, I have ample scope, freedom, or liberty, to avoid this thing, or affair: (S, L:) or I have that which renders me in no need of this thing, or affair. (L.) b5: عَنِ الكَذِبِ ↓ إِنَّ فِى المَعَارِيضِ لَمَنْدُوحَةً, [a trad.,] Verily, in oblique, indirect, ambiguous, or equivocal, modes of speech, is ample scope, freedom, or liberty, to avoid lying: (S, L:) or, that which renders one in no need of lying: (L:) one should not say مُنْدُوحَة, (TA,) nor مَمْدُوحَة. (S.) b6: نَدْحٌ and ↓ نُدْحٌ also signify Multitude; copiousness; abundance. (L, K.) b7: Also, The face of a mountain, or part which faces the spectator, above its foot, or base; (K;) its side, or extremity, which inclines to width: (TA:) pl. أَنْدَاحٌ. (K.) نِدْحٌ A heavy thing; syn. ثِقْلٌ. (K.) b2: Also, A thing that one sees from afar. (K.) نُدْحٌ, نَدْحَةٌ, نُدْحَةٌ, نَادِحٌ, مُنْدُوحَةٌ, مُنْتَدَحٌ: see نَدْحٌ.

أُنْدُوحَةٌ A wide hollow place excavated by an ostrich for her eggs. (A.)

دوح

1 دَاحَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ, (K,) aor. ـُ (TA;) and ↓ اداحت; (A, TA;) The tree became great. (A, K.) b2: داح بَطْنُهُ, (K,) and ↓انداح, (A, K,) and ↓دوّح, (TA,) or ↓تدوّح, (so in a copy of the A,) His belly became swollen, or inflated, (A,) or big, (K,) and hung down, (A, K,) by reason of fatness or disease: (A, TA:) and so دَحَا and اندحى. (TA.) And داحت سُرَرُهُمْ [Their navels became swollen, and hung down]. (TA.) 2 دوّح, inf. n. تَدْوِيحٌ, He dispersed, or scattered his property; (L, K;) as also دبّح. (L.) A2: See also 1.4 أَدْوَحَ and 5: and 7: see 1.

دَاحٌ 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 ↓ جَآءَ 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.) دَوْحٌ: see دَوْحَةٌ. b2: Also A very large tent of [goats'] hair. (IAar, TA. [See also دَوْحَةٌ.]) دَاحَةٌ: see دَاحٌ, in four places.

دَوْحَةٌ A great tree, (S, A, Msb, K,) with spreading branches, (TA,) of whatever kind it be: (S, Msb:) pl. ↓ دَوْحٌ, (S, Msb, K,) [or rather this is the coll. gen. n. of the n. un. دَوْحَةٌ,] like as تَمْرٌ is of تَمْرَةٌ; (Msb;) and أَدْوَاحٌ is pl. of دَوْحٌ: (TA:) and ↓ شَجَرَةٌ دَائِحَةٌ signifies the same; (A, * K;) and the pl. is دَوَائِحُ; (A, K;) or دَوَائِحُ signifies great trees, one of which is called دَوْحَةٌ, and its sing., though it be not used, seems to be دَائِحَةٌ. (AHn, TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ مِنْ دَوْحَةِ الكَرَمِ (tropical:) [Such a one is of a great generous stock]. (A, TA.) b2: Also A great [tent of the kind called] مِظَلَّة. (TA. [See also دَوْحٌ.]) دَوَّاحْ Very tall: so in a trad. in which it is said, كَمْ مِنْ عَذْقٍ دَوَّاحٍ فِى الجَّنَةِ [How many a very tall palm-tree is there in Paradise!]. (TA.) شَجَرَةٌ دَائِحَةٌ: see دَوْحَةٌ.

بَطْنٌ مُنْدَاحٌ A prominent, round belly: or a wide belly, low by reason of fatness. (TA.)

دحو

1 دَحَا, (S, Msb, K,) first Pers\. دَحَوْتُ, (S,) aor. ـْ (Msb, K,) inf. n. دَحْوٌ, (S, Msb, K,) He spread; spread out, or forth; expanded; or extended; (S, Msb, K;) a thing; (S;) and, when said of God, the earth; (Fr, S, Msb, K;) as also دَحَى, (Msb, K,) first Pers\. دَحَيْتُ, (K in art. دحى,) aor. ـْ inf. n. دَحْىٌ: (Msb, and K in art. دحى:) or He (God) made the earth wide, or ample; as explained by an Arab woman of the desert to Sh: (TA:) also, said of an ostrich, (S, TA,) he expanded, and made wide, (TA,) with his foot, or leg, the place where he was about to deposit his eggs: (S, * TA:) and, said of a man, he spread, &c., and made plain, even, or smooth. (TA in art. دحى.) b2: Also, said of a man, (K,) aor. ـْ inf. n. دَحْوٌ, (TA,) i. q. جَامَعَ; (K;) as also دَجَا; on the authority of IAar. (TA.) [You say, دَحَاهَا He compressed her; like as you say, دَجَاهَا.] b3: Also He threw, or cast, and impelled, propelled, or removed from its place, a stone, with his hand. (TA.) One says also, to him who is playing with walnuts, أَبْعِدِ المَدَىوَادْحُهُ, meaning [Make thou the distance far, and] throw it. (S, TA.) See also مِدْحَاةٌ, in two places. And of a torrent, one says, دَحَا بِالْبَطْحَاءِ It cast along [the soft earth and pebbles in its course; or drove them along]. (TA.) And of rain, one says, دَحَا الحَصَى عَنْ وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ (S, Msb) It drove the pebbles from the surface of the earth; (Msb;) or removed them. (TA.) [See also دَحَى, in the next art.] And الدَّحْوُ بِالحِجَارَةِ also signifies The vying, one with another, in throwing stones, and striving to surpass [in doing so]; as also ↓ المُدَاحَاةُ [inf. n. of دَاحَى]. (TA.) b4: مَرَّ يَدْحُو, inf. n. دَحْوٌ, said of a horse, He went along throwing out his fore legs without raising his hoofs much from the ground. (S, TA.) A2: دَحَا البَطْنُ The belly was, or became, large, and hanging down; (Kr, K;) and ↓ اندحى it (the belly) was, or became, wide, or distended: (MF:) or both signify it (the belly) became swollen, or inflated, or big, and hung down, by reason of fatness or disease; as also دَاحَ and اِنْدَاحَ. (TA in art. دوح.) 3 داحى, inf. n. مُدَاحَاةٌ: see 1.5 تدحّى He spread out, or extended, himself; syn. تَبَسَّطَ. (K in art. دحى.) You say, نَامَ فُلَانٌ فَتَدَحَّى Such a one slept, and [extended himself so that he] lay upon a wide space of ground. (TA in that art.) b2: And تَدَحَّتُ الإِبِلُ فِى الأَرْضِ The camels made hollows in the ground where they lay down, it being soft; leaving therein cavities like those of bellies: thus they do only when they are fat. (El-'Itreefee, TA in art. دحى.) 7 إِنْدَحَوَ see 1, last sentence.9 اِدْحَوَى [of the measure اِفْعَلَلَ for اِفْعَلَّ, like اِرْعَوَى,] It (a thing, TA) was, or became, spread, spread out or forth, expanded, or extended. (K.) دَاحٍ [act. part. n. of 1]. ↓ اَللّٰهُمَّ دَاحِىَ المَدْحُوَّاتِ, in a prayer of 'Alee, means O God, the Spreader and Expander of the [seven] earths: (TA:) المَدْحُوَّاتٌ [properly] signifies the things that are spread, &c.; as also ↓ المَدْحِيَّاتٌ. (TA in art. دحى.) b2: المَطَرَ الدَّاحِى The rain that removes [or drives] the pebbles from the surface of the earth. (TA.) أُدْحِىٌّ, (S, K,) [originally أُدْحُوىٌ, of the measure أُفْعُولٌ from دَحَيْتُ, but said in the S to be of that measure from دَحَوْتُ, the dial. var. دَحَيْتُ not being there mentioned,] and إِدْحِىٌّ and ↓ أُدْحِيَّةٌ and ↓ أُدْحُوَّةٌ, (K,) The place of the laying of eggs, (S, K,) and of the hatching thereof, (S,) of the ostrich, (S, K,) in the sand; (K;) because that bird expands it, and makes it wide, with its foot, or leg; for the ostrich has no [nest such as is termed] عُشّ: (S:) pl. أَدَاحٍ (TA in the present art.) and اداحى [i. e., if not a mistranscription, أَدَاحِىٌّ, agreeably with the sing.]: (TA in art. دحى:) and ↓ مَدْحًى [likewise] signifies the place of the eggs of the ostrich. (S.) [Hence,] ↓ بِنْتُ أُدْحِيَّةٍ

A female ostrich. (TA.) b2: [Hence also,] الأُدْحِىٌّ and الإِدْحِىٌّ (assumed tropical:) A certain Mansion of the Moon, (K, TA,) [namely, the Twenty-first Mansion,] between the نَعَائِم and سَعْد الذَّابِح; [more commonly] called البَلْدَةُ: likened to the ادحّى of the ostrich. (TA.) أُدْحُوَّةٌ and أُدْحِيَّةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places: b2: and for the latter, see also مِدْحَاةٌ, below.

مَدْحًى: see أُدْحِىٌّ.

مِدْحَاةٌ A wooden thing with which a child is driven along (يُدْحَى), and which, passing over the ground, sweeps away everything against which it comes. (K, TA.) b2: Accord. to Sh, A certain thing with which the people of Mekkeh play: he says, I heard El-Asadee describe it thus: المَدَاحِىّ and المَسَادِىّ signify stones like the [small round cake of bread called] قُرْصَة, according to the size of which a hole is dug, and widened a little: then they throw those stones (بِهَا ↓ يَدْحُونَ) to that hole; and if the stone fall therein, the person wins; but if not, he is overcome: you say of him, ↓ يَدْحُو and يَسْدُو when he throws the stones (إِذَا دَحَاهَا) over the ground to the hole: and the hole is called ↓ أُدْحِيَّةٌ. (TA.) [Accord. to Freytag, on the authority of the Deewán El-Hudhaleeyeen, A round thing made of lead, by the throwing of which persons contend together.]

المَدْحُوَّاتُ and المَدْحِيَّاتُ: see دَاحٍ.