فَاحِشَةٌ
Root: فحش
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فَاحِشَةٌ
[An excess; an enormity; anything exceeding the bounds of rectitude:] a thing excessively, enormously, or beyond measure, foul, evil, bad, abominable, or unseemly; [gross, immodest, lewd, or obscene:] or anything not agreeable with truth: or a sin, or crime, that is very foul, evil, bad, &c.: or anything forbidden by God: or any saying, or action, that is foul, evil, bad, &c.: and
فَحْشَآءُ signifies the same as فَاحِشَةٌ; or an enormity, or excessive sin, beyond measure foul, evil, bad, &c.; or a thing that reason disapproves, and the law regards as foul, evil, bad, &c.: the pl. of فَاحِشَةٌ is فَوَاحِشُ. Also, particularly, Adultery, or fornication; and so
فَحْشَآءُ : so in the Kur iv. 23 and lxv. 1 [as well as in numerous other instances]: or the فاحشة [or excess] there mentioned is the women's going out without permission: or their using foul language against their husband's relations, by reason of the sharpness of their tongues. And
فَحْشَآءُ particularly signifies Niggardliness, tenaciousness, or avarice, in the payment of the poor-rate: or the abstaining [altogether] from paying it. So in the Kur ii. 271.
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