Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُوَدَّأٌ

Root: ودأ

Full Definition

مُوَدَّأٌ [Earth made even, or plain, over a person: or earth hiding, or concealing, him;] like مُحْصَنٌ for مُحْصِنٌ, &c.
2 A grave.
3 Zuheyr Ibn-Mes-ood Ed-Dabbee says, in an elegy on his brother Ubeí, أَ أُبَىُّ إِنْ تُصْبِحْ رَهِينَ مُوَدَّأٍ زَلْجِ الجَوَانِبِ قَعْرُهُ مَلْحُودُ [O Ubeí ! if thou become a deposit in a place over which the earth is made even, or plain, with smooth, or slippery, sides, and having its bottom hollowed out laterally,
4 ]
5 مُوَدَّأَةٌ A place of destruction, or perdition; or a desert in which is no water.
6 Also, accord. to IAar, or without ة, as in an example which he quotes, A grave.


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