Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَضُؤَ

Root: وضأ

Form: 1

Full Definition

وَضُؤَI Present.T يَوْضُؤُ, Verbal.Noun وَضَآءَةٌ; and وَضِئَ, Present.T يَوْضَأُ; He was, or became, fair, beautiful, neat, or clean.
2 فَوَضَأَهُ, Present.T of the latter يَضَأُ, dev. from rule, by which, as a verb of the class called افعال المغالبة, it should be like يَنْصُرُ, He vied with him for the honour of surpassing in fairness, or comeliness, and prevailed over him therein.


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