Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

غَاضَ, aor. يَغِيضُ, inf. n. غَيْضٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) and مَغَاضٌ (Mṣb, Ḳ) and مَغِيضٌ, (TA,) It (water) became scanty, or little in quantity, and sank into the earth, or disappeared in the earth: (Ṣ, and so in some copies of the Ḳ:) or became scanty, or little in quantity, and decreased, or diminished, or became deficient: (A, and so in some copies of the Ḳ:) or sank into the earth, and went away: (TA:) or went away into the earth; (Mṣb;) [contr. of فَاضَ, aor. يَفِيضُ;] as alsoانغاض↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) which is of the dial. of El-Ḥijáz. (TA.)

It (a thing, Mṣb, a flow of milk, TA, and † the price of a commodity, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) decreased, or diminished, or became deficient. (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

وَمَا تَغِيضُ ٱلْأَرْحَامُ وَمَا تَزْدَادُ, (Ṣ,* Ḳ,* TA,) in the Ḳur [xiii. 9], (Ṣ,) means And the wombs' falling short [of completion or of what is usual], (Akh, Ṣ, Bḍ,) and their exceeding [therein], in respect of the body [of the fœtus], and the period of gestation, and the number borne: (Bḍ:) or, as some say, in respect of the menstrual blood: (Bḍ:) or the wombs' falling short of the nine months (Zj, O, L, and so in copies of the Ḳ, but in others seven months,) of gestation, and their exceeding the nine [or seven] months: (Zj, O, L:) or the wombs' falling short of completion, so that the fœtus dies, and their exceeding so that the gestation becomes complete: and accord. to this explanation, the reading of seven months in the Ḳ may be correct: see also Ḳatádeh's explanation of غَيْضٌ, below, which favours this reading. (TA.)

You say also, غَاضَ الكِرَامُ وَفَاضَ اللِّئَامُ (Ṣ, A) ‡ The generous became few, (Ṣ, TA,) and failed, or perished, (TA,) and the mean became many. (Ṣ.)

غَاضَهُ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. as above, inf. n. غَيْضٌ, (TA,) He (God, Ṣ, Mṣb) made it (i. e. water) to become scanty, or little in quantity, and to sink into the earth, or disappear in the earth: (Ṣ:) or made it to decrease, or diminish, or become deficient: (Ḳ:) or made it to go away into the earth: (Mṣb:) andاغاضهُ↓ signifies the same; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) and so doesغيّضهُ↓, inf. n. تَغْيِيضٌ: (TA:) thus the first of these verbs is trans. as well as intrans. (Ṣ.) [It is said in the Ḳur xi. 46,] وَغِيضَ ٱلْمَآءُ (Ṣ, A) And the water was made to become scanty,, &c.: (Ṣ:) or was made to decrease, or diminish. (A,* Bḍ.) And hence the saying of ʼÁïsheh, describing her father, وَغَاضَ نَبْعَ الرِّدَّةِ † And he did away with what appeared of apostacy. (TA.) You say also,غيّض↓ دَمْعَهُ, (Ṣ,* Ḳ,) inf. n. as above, (Ḳ,) He made his tears to diminish, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and restrained them: (Ṣ:) or he took the tears from his eye and dashed them away. (Th.) A poet says, (TA,) namely, Jereer, (O and TA in art. غبض,)

*غَيَّضْنَ↓ مِنْ عَبَرَاتِهِنَّ وَقُلْنَ لِى *

* مَا ذَا لَقِيتَ مِنَ الهَوَى وَلَقِينَا *

meaning They made their tears to flow until they exhausted them [and they said to me, What is it that thou hast experienced, of love, and we have experienced?]: ISd says that من here denotes some; or it may be redundant, accord. to the opinion of Abu-l-Ḥasan; for he holds that it may be so in affirmative [as well as negative] phrases, mentioning, as an instance, قَدْ كَانَ مِنْ مَطَرٍ, meaning قَدْ كَانَ مَطَرٌ. (TA.) One relation of this verse gives غَبَّضْنَ; but the former is the right. (O and TA in art. غبض.)

Also He opened a way, passage, or channel, for it (namely water) to flow forth to a مَغِيض [q. v.]. (Mṣb.)

† He diminished it, namely the price of a commodity; (Ks, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoاغاضهُ↓. (Ḳ.)

And He caused him to suffer loss, or detriment; and wronged, or injured, him. (ISd, TA.)

غيّضهُ: see 1, latter half, in three places.

غيّض said of a lion He frequented, or kept to, the غَيْضَة [q. v.]. (Ṣ, Ṣgh, L, Ḳ.)

غَيْضٌ An abortive fœtus, not completely formed; (Ḳatádeh, Ḳ;) i. e. less than seven months old. (TA.)

‡ Little; or a small quantity: as in the saying, or in أَعْطَاهُ غَيْضًا مِنْ فَيْضٍ ‡ He gave him little from much. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.)

An abundance of the trees called أَعْلَاث; i. e. طَرْفَآء and أَثْل and حَاج and عِكْرِش and يَنْبُوت. (TA.) [See also غَيْضَةٌ.]

غِيضٌ The طَلْع [or spadix of a palm-tree]; (IAạr, IDrd, O, Ḳ, TA;) like غَضِيضٌ and إِغْرِيضٌ: (TA:) or the عَجَم (AA, O, Ḳ) [thus correctly (in the CK عُجْم) evidently, I think, here meaning the heart (commonly called جُمَّار q. v.) of the palm-tree (the only produce that is eaten except the dates)] that comes forth, or coming forth, (Ḳ,) or that has not come forth, (O,) from [amid] its [membranous fibres termed] لِيف [q. v.], and all of which is eaten. (AA, O, Ḳ.)

غَيْضَةٌ A thicket; syn. أَجَمَةٌ; i. e. a collection of tangled, or confused, or dense, trees: (Mgh, Mṣb:) or an أَجَمَة; i. e. a مَغِيض↓ [q. v.] of water collected together, in which, in consequence thereof, trees grow: (Ṣ:) or an أَجَمَة: and a place in which is a collection of trees in a مَغِيض of water: (Ḳ:) or particularly, of [trees of the willow-kind called] غَرَب; not of all trees; (AḤn, O, Ḳ;) accord. to the first Arabs of the desert; but this is at variance with what we find in the poems of the Arabs; for Ru-beh, for instance, makes it to consist of fruit-bearing trees and trees not fruit-bearing, and makes it to be a غَابَة: (AḤn, O:) [see also غَيْنَةٌ:] pl. [of pauc.] أَغْيَاضٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and [of mult.] غِيَاضٌ (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ) and غَيْضَاتٌ: (Mṣb:) the first of these being formed with disregard of the augmentative [ة]; not being a pl. pl., for this is not so formed: (TA:) any غَرَب in Nejd adjacent to the غَرَب of the cultivated lands, when they are collected therein, are termed غِيَاض. (O, TA.) [See also غَيْضٌ.]

غَائِض as used in the following verse,

* إِلَى ٱللّٰهِ أَشْكُو مِنْ خَلِيلٍ أَوَدُّهُ *

* ثَلَاثَ خِلَالٍ كُلُّهَا لِىَ غَائِضُ *

is said by some to mean غَائِظ, the ض being substituted for ظ; [so that the verse should be rendered, To God I complain of three qualities, or habits, of a friend whom I love, every one of which is to me such as angers;] thus says IJ: but ISd says that it may be without substitution, from غَاضَهُ as expl. in the last sentence of the first paragraph of this art.; and thus the meaning may be, such as causes me to suffer loss, or detriment, and such as wrongs, or injures, me. (TA.)

مَغِيضٌ is an inf. n. (TA. [See 1, first sentence.])

And also the pass. part. n. of غَاضَهُ; applied to water. (Mṣb, TA.*)

And a n. of place, signifying A place where water sinks, or goes away, into the earth: (Mṣb, TA:) or مَغِيضُ مَآءٍ signifies a place where water enters [into the earth]: and a place where water collects: (Mgh:) see also غَيْضَةٌ: pl. مَغَايِضُ. (Mgh.)