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دَآءٌ

Root: دوأ

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دَآءٌ A disease, disorder, distemper, sickness, illness, or malady; syn. مَرَضٌ, or عِلَّةٌ; external or internal: [it is both physical and moral:] signifying also a vice, defect, fault, or blemish; external or internal: so that one says, دَآءُالشُّحَّ أَشَدُّ الأَدْوَآءِ [The vice of avarice is the most grievous of vices]: for the pl. is أَدْوَآءٌ, the only instance of a sing. memdood having a pl. memdood: hence also, ↓أَىٌّ دَآءٍ أَدْوَأُ مِنَ البُخْلِ or أَدْوَى, but IAth says that the correct word is أَدْوَأُ, i. e. [What vice is] more grievous, or worse, [than niggardliness?] occurring in a trad.: and the saying of a woman, كُلُّ دَآءٍ لَهُ دَآءٌ, meaning Every vice that is in men is in him: and مَيِّتُ الدَّآءِ One whose evilness is dead, (K and TA in art. بله,) so that he is not cognizant of it; said of a person when he does not bear malice towards him who does evil to him. دَآءُ الفِيلِ: see art. فيل. دَآءُ الثَّعْلَبِ: see art. ثعلب. دَآءُ الذِّئْبِ [The disease of the wolf] means hunger. (Th, M, K. [See also art. ذأب.]) دَآءٌ الأَسَدِ [The disease of the lion] means الحمى [app. الحُمَّى, i. e. fever]. دَآءُ الظَّبْىِ, or دَآءُ ظَبْىٍ, [The disease of the gazelle, or of a gazelle,] accord. to AA, means health, or soundness, and briskness, or sprightliness; or no disease; like as [it is said that] there is no disease in the gazelle: or, accord. to ElUmawee, بِنَا دَآءُ ظَبْىٍ means that when he desires to leap, he pauses a little and then leaps: but A'Obeyd prefers the former explanation. دَآءُ المُلُوكِ [The disease of kings] means the enjoyment of plenty and pleasure and softness or delicacy. دَآءُ الكِرَامِ [The disease of the generous], debt and poverty. دَآءُ الضَّرَائِرِ [The disease of fellow-wives], constant evil. دَآءُ البَطْنِ. [The disease of the belly], trial, or dissension, or the like, (الفِتْنَةُ,) in which one cannot find the right way to act.

def.2 دَآءٌ as an epithet, or ↓دَآءٍ applied to a man, Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill; or having a disease, disorder, &c.: the former is [originally an Verbal.Noun, and therefore is] also applied to a woman; or it is [originally دَوِئٌ,] of the measure فَعِلٌ, and the fem. is دَآءَةٌ, which is also mentioned in the A as applied to a woman, as well as دَآءٌ; and the dual is دَاآنِ; and the pl. أَدْوَآءٌ: and ↓مدِىْءٌ signifies the same; fem. with ه: and so ↓ديِئ; [as though originally دَوِىْءٌ or دَيْوِئٌ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ or فَيْعِلٌ, like جَيِّدٌ and سَيِّدٌ;] fem. with ة: or, accord. to the O, دَئِىٌّ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ, applied to a man; and دَئِيَّةٌ, of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ, applied to a woman: or, accord. to the T, دَيْأًى, of the measure فَيْعَلٌ, applied to a man; and دَيْأَيَةٌ, of the measure فَيْعَلَةٌ, applied to a woman. The saying, in a trad., وَإِلَّا فَيَمِينُهُ أَنَّهُ مَا بَاعَكَ دَآءٍ means [And otherwise, his oath shall be, that he did not sell to thee] a girl having a disease, or vice, or the like: and similar to this is the saying, رُدَّ الدَّآءُ بِدَائِهِ That which had a vice, or the like, was returned because of the vice, &c., thereof.
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