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دَيَّاصٌ دياص A man over whom one cannot get power: (S, K:) or strong in the muscles: (M:) or a man whom one cannot seize because of the strength of his muscles: (As, TA:) or a fat man: (K:) so it is said; and if it be correct, it is because, when he is seized, he slips away from the hand by reason of his abundance of flesh: (IF:) and with ة, a fat woman: (TA:) or a woman bulky, (A,) or fleshy, (AA, K, TA,) and short, (AA, A, K, TA,) and that quivers, or quakes [by reason of her abundance of flesh]: (AA, A, TA:) or a fleshy woman: and a short woman. (CK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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