وضح1 وَضَحَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. وُضُوحٌ (S, Msb, L, K) and ضِحَةٌ and ضَحَةٌ, (L, K,) the last with fet-hah because the guttural letter; (TA;) and ↓ اتّضح, (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ اوضح, and ↓ توضّح; (L, K;) It (an affair, أَمْرٌ, S, K, and a thing, شَىْءٌ, L,) appeared; became apparent, or plainly apparent, overt, conspicuous, manifest, notorious, plain, obvious, or evident; (S, L, K;) became  clear, unobscured, exposed to view, displayed, laid open, disclosed, or uncovered. (Msb.) b2: (tropical:)  It (language) was perspicuous. (The Lexicons, passim.) b3:  مَلْكُ الطَّرِّيقِ ↓ توضّح The middle of the road became plainly apparent, obvious, or conspicuous. (S.) b4:  مَنْ أَيْنَ وَضَحَ الرَّاكِبُ, as Az says, or, as others say, ↓ من اين اوضح, Whence did the rider make his appearance? (L.) Or وَضَحَ الرَّاكِبُ signifies the rider came forth: (ISd:) and ↓ من اين أَوْضَحتَ whence hast thou come forth? (IAar, S,) and [in like manner one says] من اين بَدَا وَضَحُكَ. (S.) A2:  وَضَحَتِ الإِبِلُ بِاللَّبَنِ (tropical:)  i. q. أَلْمَعَت. (K.) A3:  وَضِحَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. وَضَحٌ, [a verb of which the inf. n. is explained in the Msb by the word درن: if this be not a mistake of a copyist, it app. signifies He, or it, was dirty; or was dirtied, soiled, or besmeared].2 وَضَّحَ see 4.4 اوضحهُ, (S, Msb, K,) and اوضح عَنْهُ, (L,) inf. n. إِيضَاحٌ: (TA,) and ↓ وضّحهُ, (K,) inf.تَوْضِيحٌ; (TA;) He rendered it apparent or plainly apparent, overt, conspicuous, manifest, notorious, plain, obvious, or evident; (S, L, K;) rendered it clear, or unobscured; exposed it to view; displayed it; laid it open; disclosed or uncovered it. (Msb.) b2:  He rendered language perspicuous. (The lexicons, passim.) b3: اوضحت الشَّجَّةُ فِى الرَّأْسِ The wound upon the head laid bare the bone. (Msb,) [See مُوضِحَةٌ.] b4: اوضح لَهُ الأَمْرَ, (S, K,) and الكَلَامَ, (S,) He made the affair, (S, K,) and the language, (S,) plain, or clear, to him. (S, K.) b5:  See 1. b6:  اوضح قَوْمًا He saw a people. (L.) b7:  اوضح He (a man) had white children born to him: (S, L:) and in like manner one says [اوضحت] of a woman. (L.) 5 تَوَضَّحَ See 1. b2:  توضّح [app., He (a sheep or goat) had a whiteness predominant over other colours, overspreading generally his whole body: or in his breast and back and face]. (L.) 8 إِوْتَضَحَ see 1.10 استوضح شَيْئًا He put his hand over his eyes (in the sun, L) to try if he could see a thing, (S, L, K,) guarding his eyes with his hand from the rays of the sun: as also اِسْتَكَفَّهُ, and اِسْتَشْرَفَهُ. (L.) One says اِسْتَوْضِحْ عَنْهُ يَا فُلَانُ [Try if thou canst see him, or it, by putting thy hand over thine eyes, O such a one]. (S.) b2: استوضح السَّبِيلَ He sought or endeavoured to see plainly or clearly the way: syn. اِستَبَانَهُ (Beyd, vi. 55.) b3:  استوضح الشَّمْسَ He blinked at the sun; syn. تَحَاوَصَ إِلَيْهَا. (A.) b4:  استوضحهُ الأَمْرَ, (S, K,) and الكَلَامَ, (S,) He asked him to make the affair, (S, K,) and the language, (S,) plain, or clear, to him. (S, K.) b5:  استوضح عَنِ الأَمْرِ He inquired respecting the thing or affair; sought for information respecting it; inquired  into it; investigated it. (L.) وَضَحٌ Light, and whiteness, (S,) of anything: (TA:) the whiteness of daybreak, or dawn: and of the moon; (K;) and its light. (TA.) b2: صُومُوا مِنَ الوَضَحِ إِلَى الوَضَحِ Fast ye from new moon to new moon. (IAth, from a trad.) b3: وَضَحٌ (tropical:)  Leprosy; syn. بَرَصٌ. (S, K.) It is sometimes used in this sense, metonymically. (S.) b4:  وَضَحٌ A mark in a horse differing in colour from the generality of his coat. You say بِالفَرَسِ وَضَحٌ In the horse is such a mark. (S.) b5:  وَضَحٌ A blaze, or white mark on a horse's  forehead or face. (K.) b6:  What is termed تَحْجِيلٌ in the legs of a horse. (L, K.) and also applied to other varieties of colour. (L.) b7: فرَسٌ ذُو أَوْضَاحٍ A horse having a blaze and what is termed تحجيل. (A.) b8:  وَضَحٌ Whiteness of the hair, or hoariness; or white, or hoary, hair. (K.) b9:  (tropical:)  Milk: (L, K:) thought by ISd to be so called because of its whiteness: or milk that has not been mixed with water: (L:) or that is just drawn. (TA, art. زهر.) Aboo-Dhueyb says, عَقَّوْا بِسَهْمٍ فَلَمْ يَشْعُرْ بِهِ أَحَدٌ ثُمَّ اسْتَفَؤُوا وَقَالُواحَبَّذَا الوَضَحُ [They shot an arrow towards the sky, and no one knew of it: then they returned, and said, An excellent thing is milk]: meaning, we would rather have milk than the blood of him who has killed our companion: they preferred that camels should be given them in compensation. (L.) [See also 2, in art. عقى.] b10:  وَضَحٌ A sound, whole or perfect, [silver coin, of the kind called] دِرْهَم. (S, K.) دِرْهَمٌ وَضَحٌ A clean, white dirhem: pl. أَوْضَاحٌ. (TA.) b11:  وَضَحٌ The middle, or main part and middle, of a road; the part of a road along which one travels. (S, K.) b12:  وَضَحٌ A woman's ornament (حَلْىٌ) of silver: (A 'Obeyd, K:) or, of stones; (El-Meshárik;) i. e. of silverstones: (Towsheeh:) so called because of its whiteness: (TA:) pl. أَوْضَاحٌ: (K:) or أَوْضَاحٌ signifies a kind of woman's ornament (حَلْىٌ) made of whole [silver coins such as are called] دَرَاهِم: (S:) and (according to some, TA,) وَضَحٌ signifies an anklet; syn. خَلْخَالٌ (K) b13:  وَضَحٌ (K) or وَضَحٌ الطَّرِيفَةِ, (L, but the latter word is there written; طريقة,) Small portions, or parts, of herbage; (L, K;) what he has become white thereof: (AHn:) pl. أَوْضَاحٌ: (L:) or أَوْضَاحٌ مِنْ كَلَإٍ signifies somewhat of herbage that has become white: (As:) Az says, I have mostly heard the term وَضَحٌ, with respect to herbage, applied to the نَصِىّ and صِلِّيَان صَيْفِىّ which is not a year old and has not become black: and on another occasion he says, that it is the remains of the حَلِىّ and صِلِّيَان only. (L.) b14:  وَضَحٌ Whiteness  predominating over other colours in sheep or goats, overspreading generally the whole body: pl. أَوْضَاحٌ: (L:) or, in the breast and back and face: (T:) you say also ↓ لَهُ تَوْضيحٌ. (L.) b15:  مِنْ أَيْنَ بَدَا وَضَحُكَ: see 1. b16:  وَضَحُ القَدَمِ Whiteness of the hollow of the sole of the foot. (L.) وَضَحَةٌ A she-ass. (K.) وَضِيحَةٌ, Camels, or camels and sheep; syn. نَعَمٌ: pl. وَضَائِحُ. (L, K.) وَضَّاحٌ: see وَاضِحٌ.وَاضِحٌ and ↓ وَضَّاحٌ [but the latter has an intensive signification] Apparent, or plainly apparent; overt; conspicuous; manifest; notorious; plain; obvious; or evident; (L, K;) clear, or unobscured; exposed to view; displayed; laid open; disclosed, or uncovered. (So accord. to the explanation of the verb in the Msb.) b2:  Perspicuous language. (The Lexicons passim.) b3:  Also the ↓ latter, A man of white, or fair, and beautiful, complexion: (S, L, K:) of beautiful and smiling countenance. (L.) b4: See مُتَوَضِّحٌ. b5:  Also the ↓ latter, (tropical:)  Leprous. Hence  Jedheemeh El-Abrash was called الوَضَّاحُ. (S.) b6:  ↓ الوَضَّاحُ The day. (L, K.) The night is called الدَّهْمَانُ. (L.) b7:  ↓ بِكْرُ الوَضَّاحِ The prayer of morning, or daybreak. The prayer of nightfall is called ثِنْىُ دَهْمَانَ. (L, K [but in the CK and a MS. copy of the K, for دَهْمَانَ, we find دُهْمَانَ].) b8:  ↓ عَظْمُ وَضَّاحٍ, (L, K,) and عُظَيْمُ وَضَّاحٍ, (L,) A certain game (of the children of the Arabs of the desert, L,) in which children take a white bone and throw it in the darkness of night, and then disperse themselves in search of it: (L, K:) he who finds it wins. (L.) [See more in art. عظم.] b9:  ↓ هُوَ مِنْكَ أَدْنَى وَاضِحَةٍ He is plainly apparent to thee, as though he had become white. (Th.) b10:  رَجُلٌ وَاضحُ الحَسَبِ, and ↓ وَضَّاحُهُ, (tropical:)  A man as though he were conspicuous, clean, or pure, and white, with respect to rank or quality, nobility, reputation, or the like. (L.) b11:  In like manner one says, ↓ لَهُ النَّسَبُ الوَضَّاحُ (tropical:)  He is of conspicuous and pure race, or lineage. (TA.) b12:  وَاضِحٌ (assumed tropical:)  An illustrious man. (EsSaadee.) b13:  [And so] مِن النَّاسِ وَأَوْبَاشٌ ↓ أَوْضَاحٌ [Illustrious people, and mixed people of the baser sort;] companies of people of various tribes. No  sing. of اوضاح in this sense has been heard. (L.) b14:  الوُضَّخُ [pl. of وَاضِحٌ] The stars called الكَوَاكِبُ الخُنَّسُ [namely, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury,] when in conjunction with the bright stars of the Mansions of the Moon. (L.) وَاضِحَةٌ: see وَاضِحٌ. b2:  صِيَامُ الأَوَاضِحِ, originally وَوَاضِح, (Hr, K,) pl. of وَاضِحَةٌ, (TA,) or صِيَامُ الأَوْضَاحِ, (IAth,) The fasting during the days of the white nights: (K *, TA:) which was commanded by Mohammad: (K:) these are the 13th, 14th, and 15th, [of the lunar month]. (TA.) b3: الوَاضِحَةٌ The teeth that appear when one laughs: (S, K:) an epithet in which the quality of subst. predominates: pl. ضَوَاحِكُ. (TA.) b4: See مُوضِحَة.أَوْضاَحٌ: see وَضَحٌ and وَاضِحٌ.تَوْضِيحٌ inf. n. of 2, q.v. b2:  And see وَضَحٌ at the end.مُوضِحَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ وَاضِحَةٌ (TA) A wound by which the head or face is broken, that shows the whiteness of the bone: (S, K, TA:) or, that removes the skin which is between the flesh and the bone: the only kind of شَجَّة for which retaliation is allowed: for [some] other kinds there are assigned mulets: and for this too is assigned a mulct, consisting of five camels: but a موضحة may also be in other parts than the head or face; and respecting this, a judge must give his sentence: pl. مَواَضِحُ. (TA.) [See شَجَّةٌ.]b2:  مَوَاضِحُ الحَقِّ i. q. مَبَايِنُهُ, q.v. (TA, in art. بين.) b3:  مُوضِحَةٌ A woman who brings forth white children. (O, in TA, art. بيض.) مُتَوَضِّحٌ and ↓ وَاضِحٌ A camel that is white, but not intensely so; (En-Nadr, L, K;) more white than such as is termed أَعْيَص [app. a mistake for أَعْيَس] and أَصْهَب: (En-Nadr, L:) also (the former accord. to the K, and the latter also accord. to the L) of such a colour in the أَقْرَاب [or flanks]. (L, K.) b2:  مُتَوَضِّحٌ One who is apparent, or plainly apparent. (K.) b3: One who shows himself openly in the road, (S,) or who goes along the middle, or main part and middle of the road, (K,) and does not enter a woody place or the like where he would be concealed. (S, K.)