ض ح و

Arabic

Root

ض ح و • (ḍ-ḥ-w)

1. related to becoming visible, appearing

Derived terms

• Form I: ضَحَا (ḍaḥā, “to become visible, appear”)
  • Verbal noun: ضُحُوّ (ḍuḥuww), ضَحْو (ḍaḥw)
  • Active participle: ضَاحٍ (ḍāḥin)
  • Passive participle: مَضْحُوّ (maḍḥuww)
• Form I: ضَحَا (ḍaḥā, “to be struck by the sun's rays”)
  • Verbal noun: ضَحْو (ḍaḥw), ضُحُوّ (ḍuḥuww), ضُحِىّ
  • 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)

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ض ح و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 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, page 536