دَاحٌ
Root: دوح
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دَاحٌ
Variegated, decorated, or embellished, work, [or gewgaws,] which one waves about to children, and with which one sooths, pacifies, or quiets, them: [a coll. gen. n. : n. un. with ة, meaning a piece of such work, or a gewgaw:] whence, one says, الدُّنْيَا دَاحَةٌ [The world is a gewgaw, or gaudy toy]. [And hence,]
[as a proper name] means
2 And A kind of variegated, or figured, cloth or garment. [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. And جَآءَ وَعَلَيْهِ دَاحَةٌ [He came having upon him a variegated, or figured, garment].
3 A bracelet consisting of several distinct portions like the strands of a rope, twisted together.
4 Lines, or streaks, upon a bull &c.
5 The species of perfume called خَلُوق.
[Were it not for my loving the world, death would be to me ease]: and AA confirmed this.لَكَانَ المَوْتُ لِى رَاحَهْ لَوْ لَا حُبَّتِى
2 And A kind of variegated, or figured, cloth or garment. [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. And جَآءَ وَعَلَيْهِ دَاحَةٌ [He came having upon him a variegated, or figured, garment].
3 A bracelet consisting of several distinct portions like the strands of a rope, twisted together.
4 Lines, or streaks, upon a bull &c.
5 The species of perfume called خَلُوق.
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