Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَهْيَآءُ ذ A woman that does not menstruate: pl. ضُهْىٌ; which necessarily implies that the former is [as above, i. e.] with the long ا: but AA mentions ↓ ضَهْيَاةٌ and ↓ ضَهْيَاهٌ , with ة and with ه, as having this meaning; which necessarily implies that ضهيا is with the short ا [i. e., accord. to a general rule, ↓ ضَهْيًا , with tenween, like ضَهْيَأٌ, q. v. in art. ضهيأ, though (accord. to a general rule) this should be regarded as a masc. epithet]: (S) or ضَهْيَآءُ, and also with the short ا [app. ↓ ضَهْيًا , as above, not ضَهْيَا, or, as I rather incline to think, ضَهْيَأٌ (which is mentioned in art. ضهيأ) may be here meant], signify a woman that does not menstruate nor become pregnant; (K, TA;) so that she is as though she resembled a man: (TA: [see 3:]) or that menstruates but does not become pregnant: (K, TA:) or that does not bring forth, though she menstruate: (TA:) or whose breasts do not grow forth; (K, TA;) and when this is the case, she does not menstruate: or the former signifies that does not menstruate, being pregnant. (TA.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) Land that does not give growth to anything; as also with the short ا [i. e. ↓ ضَهْيًا or ضَهْيَأٌ]. (K. [In the TA this meaning is restricted, app. without reason, to the form with the short ا.]) -A2- Also, (S, K,) and with the short ا [i. e. ↓ ضَهْيًا or ضَهْيَأٌ], (K,) A species of tree (S, K) of the kind called عِضَاه, (K,) having a بَرَمَة [q. v.] and a pod (عُلَّفَة) [which succeeds the بَرَمَة], and many thorns. (TA. [For further descriptions thereof, see ضَهْيَأٌ, in art. ضهيأ.])