دحض
1 دَحَضَتْ رِجْلُهُ, (
S,
A,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
S,)
inf. n. دَحْضٌ (
S, A) and دُحُوضٌ, (
A,
TA,) His foot slipped. (
S,
A,
K.) And دَحَضَ said of a man, He slipped. (
Msb.)
b2: دَحَضَتِ الشَّمْسُ, (
S,
A,
K,)
aor. and
inf. ns. as above, (
TA,) (
tropical:) The sun declined (
S,
A,
K) towards the place of setting, (
TA,) عَنْ كَبِدِ السَّمَآءُ (
S) or عن بَطْنِ السمآء (A) [from the meridian]; as though it slipped. (
TA.)
b3: دَحَضَتْ حُجَّتُهُ, (
S,
A,
Msb,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
Msb,)
inf. n. دُحُوضٌ, (
S,
K,) or دَحْضٌ, (
Msb,) (
tropical:) His argument, plea, allegation, or evidence, was, or became, null, or void. (
S,
A, *
Msb,
K.)
A2: See also 4, in two places.
4 ادحض, (
A,
TA,)
inf. n. إِدْحَاضٌ, (
S,) He made (
S,
A,
TA) a man's foot, (
A,
TA,) and a man, (
TA,) to slip; (
S,
A,
TA;) as also ↓ دَحَضَ. (
TA.)
b2: It (rain) made a place slippery. (
TA.)
b3: (
tropical:) He (God,
S,
Msb, or a man,
K) annulled, or rendered null or void, an argument, a plea, an allegation, or an evidence: (
S,
Msb,
K:) he rebutted it; as also ↓ دَحَضَ,
inf. n. دَحْضٌ. (
TA; but in this instance, only the
inf. n. of the latter verb is mentioned.) Thus in the
Kur [xviii. 54, and xl. 5], لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الحَقَّ (
tropical:) That they may, or might, rebut thereby the truth. (
TA.) دَحْضٌ A slippery place; as also ↓ دَحَضٌ (
S,
K) and ↓ دَحُوضٌ (
O,
K) and ↓ مِدْحَضٌ (Freytag, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees,) [or مَدْحَضٌ?]:
pl. دِحَاضٌ, (
K,) [a
pl. of the second,] like as جِبَالٌ is
pl. of جَبَلٌ. (
TA.)
b2: Also Water that causes slipping:
pl. أَدْحَاضٌ. (
TA.) دَحَضٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.
دَحُوضٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.
دَاحِضٌ [Slipping] has for a
pl. دُحْضٌ: occur-ring in a
trad., in the phrase دُحْضُ الأَقْدَامِ, meaning (assumed
tropical:) those having no firmness, or stability, nor determination, or resolution, in affairs. (
TA.)
b2: حُجَّتُهُمْ دَاحِضَةٌ, in the
Kur [xlii. 15], means (
tropical:) Their argument, or plea, or allegation, is null, or void: or, as
IDrd says, on the authority of
AO; it means مَدْحُوضَةٌ [rebutted]. (
TA.) مِدْحَضٌ [or مَدْحَضٌ?]: see دَحْضٌ.
مَدْحَضَةٌ A cause of slipping;
syn. مَزَلَّةٌ. (
K.) You say, هٰذِهِ مَدْحَضَةٌ لِلْقَدَمِ [This is a cause of slipping to the foot]. (
A.) And مَكَانٌ مَدْحَضَةٌ, in a
trad. respecting the Sirát, means A place on which the feet will not remain firm. (
TA.) مِدْحَاضٌ A place in which one slips much, or often:
pl. مَدَاحِضُ. (
TA.)
