دَآءٌ
A disease, disorder, distemper, sickness, illness, or malady
A disease, disorder, distemper, sickness, illness, or malady; syn. مَرَضٌ, (Lth, T, S, M, Msb, K,) or عِلَّةٌ; (Mgh;) external or internal: (Lth, T:) [it is both physical and moral:] signifying also a vice, defect, fault, or blemish; external or internal: so that one says, دَآءُالشُّحَّ أَشَدُّ الأَدْوَآءِ [The vice of avarice is the most grievous of vices]: (Lth, T, TA:) for the pl. is أَدْوَآءٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) the only instance of a sing. memdood having a pl. memdood: (IKh, TA:) hence also, ↓أَىٌّ دَآءٍ أَدْوَأُ مِنَ البُخْلِ (Mgh,) or أَدْوَى, but IAth says that the correct word is أَدْوَأُ, (TA,) i. e. [What vice is] more grievous, (Mgh,) or worse, (TA,) [than niggardliness?] occurring in a trad.: and the saying of a woman, كُلُّ دَآءٍ لَهُ دَآءٌ, meaning Every vice that is in men is in him: (Lth, T, TA:) and مَيِّتُ الدَّآءِ One whose evilness is dead, (K and TA in art. بله,) so that he is not cognizant of it; (TA in that art.;) said of a person when he does not bear malice towards him who does evil to him. (Lth, T, and TA in the present art.) دَآءُ الفِيلِ: see art. فيل. دَآءُ الثَّعْلَبِ: see art. ثعلب. دَآءُ الذِّيأْبِ [The disease of the wolf] means (assumed tropical:) hunger. (Th, M, K. [See also art. ذأب.]) دَآءٌ الأَسَدِ [The disease of the lion] means الحمى [app. الحُمَّى, i. e. (assumed tropical:) fever]. (AM, TA.) دَآءُ الظَّبْىِ, (S, TA,) or دَآءُ ظَبْىٍ, (M, TA,) [The disease of the gazelle, or of a gazelle,] accord. to AA, (M, TA,) means (assumed tropical:) health, or soundness, and briskness, or sprightliness; (TA;) or no disease; like as [it is said that] there is no disease in the gazelle: (S, M:) or, accord. to ElUmawee, بِنَا دَآءُ ظَبْىٍ means that when he desires to leap, he pauses a little and then leaps: but A'Obeyd prefers the former explanation. (M.) دَآءُ المُلُوكِ [The disease of kings] means (assumed tropical:) the enjoyment of plenty and pleasure and softness or delicacy. (TA.) دَآءُ الكِرَامِ [The disease of the generous], (assumed tropical:) debt and poverty. (TA.) دَآءُ الضَّرَايأِرِ [The disease of fellow-wives], (assumed tropical:) constant evil. (TA.) دَآءُ البَطْنِ. [The disease of the belly], (assumed tropical:) trial, or dissension, or the like, (الفِتْنَةُ,) in which one cannot find the right way to act. (TA.) -A2- دَآءٌ as an epithet, (Lth, Sh, T, M, and so in some copies of the K,) or ↓دَآءٍ (S, and so in other copies of the K,) applied to a man, Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill; or having a disease, disorder, &c.: (Lth, Sh, T, S, M, K:) the former is [originally an inf. n., and therefore is] also applied to a woman; (A, TA;) or it is [originally دَوِيأٌ,] of the measure فَعِلٌ, and the fem. is دَآءَةٌ, (Lth, T, M, TA,) which is also mentioned in the A as applied to a woman, as well as دَآءٌ; (TA;) and the dual is دَاآنِ; and the pl. أَدْوَآءٌ: (Lth, Sb, Sh, T, TA:) and ↓مدِىْءٌ signifies the same; (S, K;) fem. with ه: and so ↓ديِيأ; [as though originally دَوِىْءٌ or دَيْوِيأٌ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ or فَيْعِلٌ, like جَيِّدٌ and سَيِّدٌ;] fem. with ة: (K:) or, accord. to the O, دَيأِىٌّ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ, applied to a man; and دَيأِيَّةٌ, of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ, applied to a woman: or, accord. to the T, دَيْأًى, of the measure فَيْعَلٌ, applied to a man; and دَيْأَيَةٌ, of the measure فَيْعَلَةٌ, applied to a woman. (TA.) The saying, in a trad., وَإِلَّا فَيَمِينُهُ أَنَّهُ مَا بَاعَكَ دَآءٍ means [And otherwise, his oath shall be, that he did not sell to thee] a girl having a disease, or vice, or the like: and similar to this is the saying, رُدَّ الدَّآءُ بِدَايأِهِ That which had a vice, or the like, was returned because of the vice, &c., thereof. (Mgh.)