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قَحْطٌ ذ : see 1. ― -b2- Drought; dearth; scarcity: (S, TA:) and (assumed tropical:) paucity of good in anything. (ISd, TA.) You say also, لَهُقُحْطًا , like سُحْقًا, and بُعْدًا, in the accus. case as [though it were] an inf. n.; meaning May drought, or dearth, or scarcity, betide him: and (tropical:) cessation of good, or welfare: and (tropical:) unfruitfulness in respect of good works. (TA.)

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