فُضْحَةٌ
Root: فضح
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فُضْحَةٌ
, a subst from فَضِحَ, and
, the Verbal.Noun of فَضِح, Whiteness, but not in an intense degree: or, as some say, dust-colour inclining to
طُحْلَة [which is a hue between that of dust and whiteness, with a little blackness, or between that of dust and blackness, with a little whiteness], intermixed with an ugly hue; one of the colours of camels and of pigeons: the epithet is
أَفْضَحُ ; fem. فَضْحَآءُ: said by an Arab of the desert, in answer to a question of AA respecting it, to be the colour of cooked flesh-meat. فُضْحَةُ الصُّبْحِ means The whiteness of the dawn.
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