Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَاضِحٌ

Root: وضح

Full Definition

وَاضِحٌ and وَضَّاحٌ [but the latter has an intensive signification] Apparent, or plainly apparent; overt; conspicuous; manifest; notorious; plain; obvious; or evident; clear, or unobscured; exposed to view; displayed; laid open; disclosed, or uncovered.
2 Perspicuous language.
3 Also the ↓ latter, A man of white, or fair, and beautiful, complexion: of beautiful and smiling countenance.
4 See مُتَوَضِّحٌ.
5 Also the ↓ latter, Leprous. Hence Jedheemeh El-Abrash was called الوَضَّاحُ.
6 The day. The night is called الدَّهْمَانُ.
7 بِكْرُ The prayer of morning, or daybreak. The prayer of nightfall is called ثِنْىُ دَهْمَانَ. (L, K [but in the CK and a MS. copy of the K, for دَهْمَانَ, we find دُهْمَانَ].)
8 عَظْمُ , and عُظَيْمُ وَضَّاحٍ, A certain game in which children take a white bone and throw it in the darkness of night, and then disperse themselves in search of it: he who finds it wins. [See more in art. عظم.]
9 هُوَ مِنْكَ أَدْنَى He is plainly apparent to thee, as though he had become white.
10 رَجُلٌ وَاضحُ الحَسَبِ, and , A man as though he were conspicuous, clean, or pure, and white, with respect to rank or quality, nobility, reputation, or the like.
11 In like manner one says, لَهُ النَّسَبُ He is of conspicuous and pure race, or lineage.
12 وَاضِحٌ An illustrious man.
13 [And so] مِن النَّاسِ وَأَوْبَاشٌ [Illustrious people, and mixed people of the baser sort;] companies of people of various tribes. No sing. of اوضاح in this sense has been heard.
14 الوُضَّخُ [pl. of وَاضِحٌ] The stars called الكَوَاكِبُ الخُنَّسُ [namely, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury,] when in conjunction with the bright stars of the Mansions of the Moon.


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