د ح ض

ادحض أدحض ادحض دحض , (A, TA,) inf. n. اـِدْحَاضٌ , (S,) He made (S, A, TA) a man's foot, (A, TA,) and a man, (TA,) to slip; (S, A, TA;) as also ↓ دَحَضَ . (TA.) ― -b2- It (rain) made a place slippery. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) He (God, S, Msb, or a man, K) annulled, or rendered null or void, an argument, a plea, an allegation, or an evidence: (S, Msb, K:) he rebutted it; as also ↓ دَحَضَ , inf. n. دَحْضٌ . (TA; but in this instance, only the inf. n. of the latter verb is mentioned.) Thus in the Kur [xviii. 54, and xl. 5], لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الحَقَّ (tropical:) That they may, or might, rebut thereby the truth. (TA.)

دَحْضٌ دحض A slippery place; as also ↓ دَحَضٌ (S, K) and ↓ دَحُوضٌ (O, K) and ↓ مِدْحَضٌ (Freytag, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees,) [or مَدْحَضٌ ?]: pl. دِحَاضٌ , (K,) [a pl. of the second,] like as جِبَالٌ is pl. of جَبَلٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- Also Water that causes slipping: pl. أَدْحَاضٌ . (TA.)

دَحَضٌ دحض : see the next preceding paragraph.

دَحُوضٌ دحوض : see the next preceding paragraph.

دَاحِضٌ داحض [Slipping] has for a pl. دُحْضٌ : occur- ring in a trad., in the phrase دُحْضُ الأَقْدَامِ , meaning (assumed tropical:) those having no firmness, or stability, nor determination, or resolution, in affairs. (TA.) ― -b2- حُجَّتُهُمْ دَاحِضَةٌ , in the Kur [xlii. 15], means (tropical:) Their argument, or plea, or allegation, is null, or void: or, as IDrd says, on the authority of AO; it means مَدْحُوضَةٌ [rebutted]. (TA.)

مِدْحَضٌ مدحض [or مَدْحَضٌ ?]: see دَحْضٌ .

مَدْحَضَةٌ مدحضه مدحضة A cause of slipping; syn. مَزَلَّةٌ . (K.) You say, هٰذِهِ مَدْحَضَةٌ لِلْقَدَمِ [This is a cause of slipping to the foot]. (A.) And مَكَانٌ مَدْحَضَةٌ , in a trad. respecting the Sirát, means A place on which the feet will not remain firm. (TA.)

مِدْحَاضٌ مدحاض A place in which one slips much, or often: pl. مَدَاحِضُ . (TA.)