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قوح

1 قَاحَ ذ , aor. يَقُوحُ, said of a wound, i. q. قَاحَ, inf. n. قيح, q. v.; as also ↓ تقّوح . (K.) -A2- And قاح, (K, TA,) inf. n. قَوْحٌ, (TA,) He swept a house, or chamber; (K, TA;) a dial. var. of حَاقَ; mentioned by Kr; (TA;) as also ↓ قوّح . (K, TA.) 2 قَوَّحَ see what next precedes. 4 اقاح ذ He (a man, TA) kept constantly, or perseveringly, to refusing, after the act of asking, or begging; (K, TA;) mentioned by IAar, but in art. قيح. (TA.) 5 تَقَوَّحَ see 1, first sentence. قَاحَةٌ ذ The court of a house; a spacious vacant part, or portion, thereof, in which is no building; syn. سَاحَةٌ; (S in art. قيح, and L, K, in the present art.;) and بَاحَةٌ, ق and ب being interchangeable in this case, as in طِينٌ لَازِبٌ and لَازِقٌ, and in نَبِيثَةُ البِئْرِ and نَقِيثَتُهَا: and the middle of a house: (TA:) pl. قُوحٌ; (K, TA;) like [its syn.] سُوحٌ pl. of سَاحَةٌ. (TA.) It is related of 'Omar that he said, مَنْ مَلَأَ عَيْنَهُ مِنْ قَاحَةِ بَيْتٍ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُؤْذَنَ لَهُ فَقَدْ فَجَرَ [He who satisfies his eye by the sight of what is in the court of a house before permission is given to him to enter verily transgresses]. (TA.) And [the pl.] signifies Lands giving growth to nothing. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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