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طَخْيَآءُ ذ The darkness of clouds. (Lth, Mgh, TA.) ― -b2- And لَيْلَةٌ طَخْيَآءُ (S, * ISd, Mgh, K *) A dark night; (S, K;) as also ↓ لَيْلَةٌ طَخْوَآءُ : (TA:) or a night intensely dark, (ISd, Mgh, TA,) in which the clouds have concealed the moon: (ISd, TA:) and ↓ لَيْلٌ طَاخٍ and طخى [app. ↓ طَخْىٌ , as inf. n. used as an epithet,] dark night: and لَيَالٍ ↓ طَاخِيَاتٌ dark nights. (TA.) ― -b3- And كَلِمَةٌ طَخْيَآءُ [A sentence, or an expression,] not understood. (S, K. *) ― -b4- And [hence, perhaps,] one says [of a he-goat], كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى طَخْيَائِهِ, meaning فى هِبَابِهِ [i. e. That was in his state of rattling at rutting-time]. (JK. [See a similar phrase in art. طحو and طحى; in which طَحْيَائِهِ is probably a mistranscription for طَخْيَائِهِ.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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