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ضَحَآءٌ ذ , with medd, (S, Hr, Msb, TA,) and fet-h, (Hr, Msb, TA, [erroneously written in copies of the K with damm,]) The period [of the forenoon] next after that called الضُّحَى; i. e. when the day is at the highest: (S:) or the period near midday: (K:) or the period of the day when the sun has risen to the fourth part of the sky: (TA:) see also ضُحًى, in two places. ― -b2- And hence, The [morning-meal called] غَدَآء; because it is eaten in the time thus called. (S, TA.) [And also applied to Pasture eaten in that time:] see 2, third sentence.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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