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هَيْضَةٌ

Root: هيض

Full Definition

هَيْضَةٌ , or هَيْضٌ , A disease after a disease: a return of anxiety, or disquietude of mind; and of grief.
2 بِهِ هَيْضَةٌ He has a purging and vomiting together; [i. e. the cholera: used in this sense in the present day:] or a discharge of the belly alone. You say also, أَصَابَتْ فُلَانًا هَيْضَةٌ, meaning A change of his temperament, such as often occasions laxness of the bowels, causing a frequent going to and from the privy, affected such a one, from the disagreement with him of something which he had eaten.
3 بِهِ هَيْضَةُ الكَرَى In him is the languor produced by drowsiness.
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