Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

[Accord. to the O and Ḳ, Q. Q. 1, being mentioned therein in art. ضهأ.] ضَهْيَأَ أَمْرَهُ He fell short of doing what he ought to have done in his affair, (مَرَّضَهُ, O, Ḳ,) and did not decide it, (لَمْ يَصْرِمْهُ, O,) or and did not perform it firmly, or soundly: (Ḳ:) like رَهْيَأَ. (TA.)

ضَهْيَأٌ, of the measure فَعْلَلٌ, or, as some say, فَعْيَلٌ; if of the latter, [said to be] the only instance of this measure in the language; ضَهْيَدٌ being a foreign proper name; (TA;) or, مَرْيَمُ being a foreign proper name; (TA;) or, accord. to Sb, the hemzeh in ضَهْيَأٌ, which is with tenween, is augmentative, because it is syn. with ضَهْيَآءُ, which is with the long ا and imperfectly decl., for the ى cannot be augmentative and the hemzeh radical in the latter; (MF and TA in art. ضهى;) [a word like ضَهْيًا and ضَهْيَآءُ (which see in art. ضهى) in most, or a some seem to say in all, of its meanings;] A certain tree, resembling the سَيَال, (AZ, O, Ḳ,) each of which has its fruit in a سِنْفَة [or pod]; it has weak thorns, and grows in the valleys and on the mountains: (AZ, O:) Ed-Deenawaree [i. e. AḤn] says, on the authority of some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, of El-Azd, that the ضهيأ is a great tree of the kind called عِضَاه, having a بَرَمَة [q. v.] and a pod (عُلَّّفَة) [which succeeds the بَرَمَة], and many thorns; its pods (عُلَّف) are intensely red, and its leaves are like those of the [species of acacia called] سَمُر. (O.)

Also A woman that does not menstruate: and that has neither milk nor breast: as alsoضَهْيَأَةٌ↓: (Ḳ:) or the latter is an epithet applied to a woman in these two senses: (O: [in which the former word, without ة, is not mentioned:]) Seer says, in his Expos. of “the Book” of Sb, that ضَهْيَأٌ, like ضَهْيَآءُ [which belongs to art. ضهى], is a subst. as well as an epithet, signifying a woman whose breast has not grown forth: and one who has not menstruated:

and also † A land that has not given growth to anything: (MF, TA:) orضَهْيَأَةٌ↓ signifies as above: and also † a desert (فَلَاةٌ) having in it no water: (O, Ḳ, TA:) or that does not give growth to anything; app. because it has no water. (TA.) [Accord. to those who hold the ى to be augmentative,] a woman is thus termed because she resembles men (لِأَنَّهَا ضَاهَأَتِ الرِّجَالَ). (O, TA.)