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ضَحْيَانٌ ذ , which should by rule be ضَحْوَانٌ, Anything exposing itself, or being exposed, to the sun. (IJ, TA.) قُلَّةٌ ضَحْيَانَةٌ means [A mountain-top] exposed to the sun: (S, K:) occurring in a saying of Taäbbata-sharrà. (S.) And عَصًا ضَحْيَانَةٌ A staff, or stick, growing in the sun so as to be matured thereby, and extremely hard. (TA.) ― -b2- See also أَضْحَى. ― -b3- Also A man who eats in the time called الضُّحَى: fem. with ة. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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