غَطْشَى

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غَطْشَى , or غَطْشَآءُ, if from غَطَشَ اللَّيْلُ. originally [and properly] like عَمْيَآءُ, but by poetic license it is made perfectly decl., [with tenween,] but if غَطْشَانُ occurred, as meaning “ dark, ” it would be a fem., written [غَطْشَى,] with ى or both forms, without and with medd, A desert, or waterless desert, that is dark: or of which the ways through it are obscure; where one cannot find the right way. You say, رَكِبْنَا فَلَاةً غَطْشَى وَنَحْنُ كَرِمَالِهَا عَطْشَى [We travelled upon a desert, or waterless desert, of which the ways through it were obscure, and we were like its sands thirsty].

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