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جَائِحَةٌ ذ [fem. of جَائِحٌ, q. v.: and hence, as a subst.,] A bane, a pest, (Msb,) a calamity, or the like, (S, Msb, K,) or a great calamity, (Mgh, TA,) that destroys, or extirpates, men's property, or cattle; (S, Mgh, Msb, * K, TA;) as drought, or dearth; or civil war, or conflict and faction, and the like: (S, TA:) drought, or dearth, that destroys, or extirpates, men's property, or cattle; as also ↓ جَوْحَةٌ : (Wásil, TA:) or a calamity that befalls a man, and destroys all his property, or cattle: (A'Obeyd, T:) or severe drought or dearth, that destroys, or extirpates, men's property, or cattle: (ISh:) sometimes it is the effect of large hail; and sometimes, of excessive cold or heat: (T:) or (accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee, Mgh, Msb) a blast, or blight, or calamity arising from the atmosphere, that destroys the fruits, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) or some thereof; (Mgh;) only relating to fruits: (TA:) pl. جَوَائِحُ. (A, Mgh, Msb.) It is said in a trad., أَمَرَ بِوَضْعِ الجَوَائِحِ, which is an elliptical phrase, meaning He commanded to remit the poor-rate in respect of things affected by a blast, or blight, (Mgh, Msb,) namely, property, (Mgh,) or fruits, (Msb,) so affected; (Mgh, Msb;) i. e., that no portion thereof, (Mgh,) or of the remains thereof, (Msb,) should be taken for the poor-rate. (Mgh, Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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