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قِضَّةٌ ذ , (M, K,) or ↓ قَضَّةٌ , (A,) (tropical:) [Devirgination]; a subst. from إِِقْتَضّ in the former of the two senses assigned to it above. (M, K.) You say, لَيْلَةَ عُرْسِهَا ↓ كَانَ ذٰلِكَ عِنْدَ قَضَّتِهَا (tropical:) [That was on the occasion of her devirgination, on the night of her being conducted to her husband]. (A, TA.) -A2- Also the former, (S, M, Msb,) or ↓ latter, (A, Mgh,) or both, (K,) (tropical:) The virginity, or maidenhead, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) of a girl, (S, Mgh, K,) or of a woman, (M,) or of both. (Msb.) You say, أَخَذَ قِضَّتَهَا, (Lh, M,) and ↓ ذَهَبَ بِقَضَّتِهَا , (A, Mgh,) (tropical:) He took her virginity. (Lh, M, Mgh.) -A3- See also قَضَضٌ. -A4- And see قَضُّ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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