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رَمَادَةٌ ذ Perdition, destruction, or a state of destruction; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ رَمْدٌ (T, S.) Hence, (S Msb,) عَامُ الرَّمَادَةِ The year of perdition or destruction, (S, Msb. K,) or of drought, (A,) in the days of 'Omar, (S, Msb, K,) the seventeenth or eighteenth year of the Flight, (TA,) in which men perished (S, M, Msb, K) in great numbers, (M,) and cattle also, (S, K,) in consequence of drought (S, Msb) long con- tinuing, (S,) wherefore it was thus called, (S, M,) because the earth became like ashes by reason of the drought; (Msb;) or, as some say, because the drought continued so as to render the earth and the trees like the colour of ashes: but the first reason assigned above, for its being thus called, is preferable. (M.) ― -b2- See also رَمَادٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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