Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضِغْثٌ ذ A handful of herbs, (AHn, S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) mixed together, (S, A, Msb, K,) fresh and dry: (S, Msb, K:) or a handful of twigs of trees or shrubs; (Mgh, * Msb;) or of fruit-stalks of the raceme of a palm-tree: (Mgh, Msb:) originally, a number of twigs all having one root or stem: and afterwards applied to what is collected together: (Msb:) or a thing that one collects together, such as a bundle of [the species of trefoil called] رَطْبَة; and of what has a stem, and grows tall: (Fr, TA:) or whatever is collected together, and grasped with the hand: (AHeyth, TA:) or a bundle of herbs mixed together; or of firewood: pl. أَضْغَاثٌ. (TA.) In the Kur xxxviii. 43, it is said to mean A bundle of rushes (أَسَل, so in the Mgh and the O, in my copy of the Msb اثل [which I think a mistranscription, on account of what follows]), a hundred in number, (O, Msb,) consisting of slender stalks without leaves, (Mgh, Msb,) whereof mats are made. (Msb.) See also a prov. cited and expl. voce إِِلَالَةٌ. Hence, in a trad., ضِغْثَانِ مِنْ نَارٍ, meaning (tropical:) Two bundles of lighted firewood. (TA.) And, in another trad., مِنْهُمُ الآخِذُ الضِّغْثَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Among them is he who obtains somewhat of worldly goods. (TA.) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) What is confused, and without truth, or reality, [of dreams, and] of news, or tidings, and of an affair. (Sh, TA.) أَضْغَاثُ أَحْلَامٍ, [occurring in the Kur xii. 44 and xxi. 5,] of which the sing. is ضِغْثُ حُلْمٍ, (Msb,) means (tropical:) Complications of dreams; (A;) or medleys of dreams, falsely resembling true dreams: (O, Msb:) or a dream of which the interpretation will not prove true, because of its confusedness: (ISh, S, K:) or a false dream; the pl. form being used to give emphasis to the meaning of unreality, or because the phrase comprehends various things: (Bd in xii. 44:) or أَضْغَاثُ الرُّؤْيَا means the terrors, or frightful things, of the dream. (Mujáhid, O, TA.) One says also, أَتَانَا بِأَضْغَاثٍ مِنَ الأَخْبَارِ, meaning (tropical:) He brought us [various] sorts of news, or tidings. (TA.) ضِغْثٌ means also (assumed tropical:) A deed that is of a mixed kind, not pure, or not sincere. (IAth and O, from a trad.) And كَلَامٌ ضِغْثٌ (assumed tropical:) Speech in which is no good: pl. أَضْغَاثٌ. (TA.)