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فَضَّحَ see the last sentence but one above.

فاضحهُ [He exposed his vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions, the other doing the like to him: see also 6]. (A.)

أَفْضَحَ see 1, last sentence but one. ― -b2- افضح البُسْرُ (assumed tropical:) The full-grown unripe dates showed in them a redness. (S.) And افضح النَّخْلُ (assumed tropical:) The palm-trees became red and yellow [in their fruit]. (K.)

تفاضح المُرْتَجِزَانِ [The two composers, or reciters, of verses of the metre termed رَجَز exposed each other's vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions]. (A.) And أَرَادُوا أَنْ يَتَنَاصَحُوا فَتَفَاضَحُوا [They desired, or meant, to give sincere, or faithful, advice or counsel, one to another, and they exposed one another's vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions]. (A.)

افتضح His vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions, became exposed; he became disgraced, or put to shame: (S, L, K:) he did evil, and became disgraced thereby. (L.) ― -b2- And [hence] اِفْتَضَحْنَا فِيكَ We have been negligent, or have failed of our duty, in respect of visiting thee, and seeking for thee. (A, TA.)

الصُّبْحُ الفَضَحُ The dawn that is overspread with redness: (K, TA:) because of its shining forth. (TA.) -A2- See also what next follows.

فُضْحَةٌ , a subst from فَضِحَ , (L, K, TA,) and ↓ فَضَحٌ , (S, L, TA,) the inf. n. of فَضِح , (TK,) Whiteness, but not in an intense degree: (K, TA: [and the same is implied in the S:]) or, as some say, dust-colour inclining to طُحْلَة [which is a hue between that of dust and whiteness, with a little blackness, or between that of dust and blackness, with a little whiteness], (S, L, TA,) intermixed with an ugly hue; one of the colours of camels and of pigeons: the epithet is ↓ أَفْضَحُ ; fem. فَضْحَا=ءُ : said by an Arab of the desert, in answer to a question of AA respecting it, to be the colour of cooked flesh-meat. (L, TA.) فُضْحَةُ الصُّبْحِ means The whiteness of the dawn. (TA.)

فِضَاحٌ : see فَضِيحَةٌ .

فَضُوحٌ One who exposes [much, or habitually, or often,] the vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions, of others; who [so] disgraces them, or puts them to shame; as also ↓ فَضَّاحٌ . (TA.) One says, الخَمْرُ فَضُوحٌ لِشَارِبِهَا [Wine is a thing that exposes much the vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions, of the drinker thereof]. (A.) ― -b2- يَا فَضُوحُ means O thou who act rendered notorious by thy evil character or conduct. (K, * TA.)

فُضُوحٌ : see فَضِيحَةٌ , in two places.

هُوَ فَضِيحٌ فِى المَالِ He is a bad manager of property, or cattle; (K, TA;) not taking good care thereof. (TA.)

فَضَاحَةٌ : see the paragraph here following.

فُضُوحَةٌ : see the paragraph here following.

فَضِيحَةٌ a subst. from فَضَحَهُ , as also ↓ فُضُوحٌ , (S, A, L, K,) and ↓ فُضُوحَةٌ , and ↓ فَضَاحَةٌ , (L, K,) and ↓ فِضَاحٌ ; (K;) Disgrace, shame, or ignominy; (PS, TA;) a state of exposure of the vices, faults, or evil qualities or actions, of a man: (Har p. 3:) any evil thing that exposes its author to disgrace or shame; any disgraceful, or shameful, thing: (L:) a vice, or fault, or the like; syn. عَيْبٌ : pl. فَضَايءِحُ : (Msb:) [and] a disgracing; putting to shame; or rendering ignominious. (MA and KL; in both of which it is mentioned as an inf. n.) It is said in a trad., الدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ مِنْ فُضُوحِ ↓ فُضُوحُ الا=خِرَةِ [The disgrace of the present world is easier to bear than the disgrace of the world to come]. (A, TA.)

فَضَّاحٌ : see فَضُوحٌ .

فَاضح [act. part. n. of 1]. It is said in a prov., الظَّمَأُ الفَادِحُ أَهْوَنُ مِنَ الرِّىِّ الفَاضِحِ [Oppressing thirst is easier to bear than the state of satisfaction with drinking that disgraces, or puts to shame] and you say, اـِذَا كَانَ العُذْرُ وَاضِحًا كَانَ العِتَابُ فَاضِحًا [When the excuse is manifest, reproof is disgracing]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- And الفَاضِحُ signifies (assumed tropical:) The daybreak, or dawn: because it exposes and manifests everything. (Har. p. 556.)

أَفْضَحُ White, but not intensely so: (S, L, K:) see also explanations of فُضْحَةٌ , indicating other meanings: fem. فَضْحَا=ءُ . (L, TA.) ― -b2- Hence, because of their colours, (S,) الأَفْضَحُ signifies The lion: and The camel. (S, K.)