Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

دَاثَ, aor. يَدِيثُ, inf. n. دَيْثٌ, It (a thing) was, or became, soft, or supple; and easy: whence the term دَيُّوثٌ. (Mṣb.)

[And hence,] داث, aor. as above, inf. n. دِيَاثَةٌ, † He was, or became, [a wittol, or tame cuckold; or] without jealousy, and regardless of shame: so in the Nawádir of Aboo-ʼAlee Zekereeyà Ibn-Hároon Ibn-Zekereeyà El-Hejeree: (TA:) andتَدَيُّثٌ↓ signifies † the acting the part, or performing the office, [of a دَيُّوث, or wittol; or] of a pimp to one's own wife. (T, Ḳ.)

ديّثهُ, [inf. n. تَدْيِيثٌ,] He softened, or suppled, it; and made it easy. (Mṣb.) You say also, دَيَّثَتْهُ الَمَطَارِقُ The instruments called مطارق softened, or suppled, it; namely, a thing. (M.)

‡ He made it (a road) even, smooth, or easy to walk or ride upon. (M, TA.)

† He smoothed it; namely, an affair. (M.)

† He broke, or trained, him, namely, a camel, in some measure [so as to subdue his refractoriness]. (M.)

And in like manner, [He prepared it in some measure; namely,] a skin in the tan, or tanning-liquid: and a spear in the ثِقَاف [or straitening-instrument]. (M.)

† He subdued him; or rendered him submissive, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) and gentle; namely, a man. (M.) دُيَّثَ بِالصَّغَارِ occurs in a trad. as meaning † ذُلِّلَ [i. e. He was subdued, or rendered submissive, by abasement, or by tyranny, oppression, or injury]. (TA.)

And † It (time, or fortune,) tried him, or proved him, and rendered him experienced, and submissive. (M.)

دِيَاثَةٌ † The act, or conduct, of the دَيُّوث [or wittol,, &c.]. (Mṣb.) [See also دَاثَ, of which, in the sense assigned to it in the second sentence in this art., it is said to be the inf. n.]

It is also said to signify A distortion in the tongue: so in the Nh: or, as some say, the word in this sense is دِثَاثَةٌ. (TA.)

دَيُّوثٌ, (written by some دَيُوثٌ, without teshdeed, which is strange, TA,) a word of wellknown meaning, (Ḳ,) † [A wittol, or tame cuckold;] one to whose wife another man comes with his [the husband's] knowledge: (Th, M:) or one to whose wife other men go in so that he sees them; as though he had softened, or suppled, [or tamed,] himself to endure this: (M:) or one who is not jealous of him who goes in to his wife: (Mgh:) or a pimp to his own wife: (T:) or one who is not jealous of his wife: (T, Mṣb:) or i. q. قُنْذُعٌ; i. e. one who has no jealousy: (Ṣ:) or a submissive, compliant, man, without jealousy: (A:) said to be an arabicized word from the Syriac: or from مُدِيَّثٌ as an epithet applied to a camel, explained below; and if so, tropical: (TA:) or from دَاثَ [q. v.]. (Mṣb.)

مُدَيَّثٌ † A camel broken, or trained, so that his refractoriness is subdued: (T:) or ‡ broken, or trained, but not thoroughly. (A.)

‡ A road beaten, or trodden, (Ṣ, A, TA,) and made even, or easy to walk or ride upon: (Ṣ, TA:) or that has been travelled until it has become plain, or conspicuous. (T, TA.)