ض ح و

ض ح و • (ḍ-ḥ-w)

1. related to becoming visible, appearing

• Form I: ضَحَا‎ (ḍaḥā, “to become visible, appear”)
  • Verbal noun: ضُحُوٌّ‎ (ḍuḥuwwun), ضَحْوٌ‎ (ḍaḥwun)
  • Active participle: ضَاحٍ‎ (ḍāḥin)
  • Passive participle: مَضْحُوّ‎ (maḍḥuww)
• Form I: ضَحَا‎ (ḍaḥā, “to be struck by the sun's rays”)
  • Verbal noun: ضَحْوٌ‎ (ḍaḥwun), ضُحُوٌّ‎ (ḍuḥuwwun), ضُحِىٌّ‎
  • Active participle: ضَاحٍ‎ (ḍāḥin)
• Form II: ضَحَّى‎ (ḍaḥḥā, “to sacrifice, offer up, immolate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَضْحِيَة‎ (taḍḥiya)
  • Active participle: مُضَحٍّ‎ (muḍaḥḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُضَحًّى‎ (muḍaḥḥan)
• Form IV: أَضْحَى‎ (ʔaḍḥā, “to be, become; (with following imperfect: begin, start commence)”)
  • Verbal noun: إِضْحَاء‎ (ʔiḍḥāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُضْحٍ‎ (muḍḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُضْحًى‎ (muḍḥan)

• ضَحْوة‎ (ḍaḥwa, “forenoon, morning”); pl. ضَحَوات‎ (ḍaḥawāt)
• ضُحى‎ (“forenoon”)
• ضَحية‎ (“forenoon; victim, sacrifice”); pl. ضَحايا‎
• اضحى‎ (“slaughter animals, blood sacrifices, immolations”)
• اُضْحية‎ (“slaughter animal, blood sacrifice, immolation”); pl. اضاحي‎
• تَضْحية‎ (“sacrificing, immolation”); pl. تَضْحيات‎
• ضاحٍ‎ (ḍāḥin, “sunlit”)
• ضاحية‎ (“surroundings, vicinity, outskirts, suburb”); pl. ضَواحٍ‎ (ḍawāḥin)
• مُضَحَّى‎ (muḍaḥḥā, “place where one has breakfast”); pl. ضَواحٍ‎ (ḍawāḥin)

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ض ح و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1773
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ض ح و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 536