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فَلَاةٌ غَطْشَى ذ , (As, A 'Obeyd, Kr, S, A,) or غَطْشَآءُ, (O, K,) if from غَطَشَ اللَّيْلُ. originally [and properly] like عَمْيَآءُ, but by poetic license it is made perfectly decl., [with tenween,] but if غَطْشَانُ occurred, as meaning “ dark, ” it would be a fem., written [غَطْشَى,] with ى (O, TA,) or both forms, without and with medd, (TA,) A desert, or waterless desert, that is dark: (Kr:) or of which the ways through it are obscure; (As, A 'Obeyd,. A, TA;) where one cannot find the right way. (As, A 'Obeyd, S, K, TA.) You say, رَكِبْنَا فَلَاةً غَطْشَى وَنَحْنُ كَرِمَالِهَا عَطْشَى [We travelled upon a desert, or waterless desert, of which the ways through it were obscure, and we were like its sands thirsty]. (A.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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