دَيُّوثٌ

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دَيُّوثٌ , (written by some دَيُوثٌ, without tesh-deed, which is strange, TA,) a word of wellknown meaning, [A wittol, or tame cuckold;] one to whose wife another man comes with his [the husband's] knowledge: or one to whose wife other men go in so that he sees them; as though he had softened, or suppled, [or tamed,] himself to endure this: or one who is not jealous of him who goes in to his wife: or a pimp to his own wife: or one who is not jealous of his wife: or i. q. قُنْذُعٌ; i. e. one who has no jealousy: or a submissive, compliant, man, without jealousy: said to be an arabicized word from the Syriac: or from مُدِيَّثٌ as an epithet applied to a camel, explained below; and if so, tropical: or from دَاثَ [q. v.].

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