open space, freedom of action

, aor. , (A, K,) inf. n. نَدْحٌ; and ↓ ندّحهُ, (A,) inf. n. تَنْدِيحٌ; (TA;) He made it (a place, A) spacious, roomy, wide, or ample. (A, K.) ― -b2- Hence the saying of Umm-Selemeh to 'Aïsheh, (when she desired to go forth to El-Basrah, TA,) قَدْ جَمَعَ القُرْآنُ ذَيْلَكِ فَلَا تَنْدَحِيهِ, i. e., [The Kur-án hath drawn together, or contracted, thy skirt; therefore] do not widen it, (S, L, K,) or do not spread it abroad, (L,) by thy going forth to El-Basrah: (S, L, K:) the pronoun ه refers to the word ذيل: the speaker alluded to the words of the Kur-án, [xxxiii. 33,] وَقَرْنَ فِى بُيُوُتِكُنَّ وَلَا تَبَرَّجْنَ. (L.) Accord. to one relation, the last words are لا تَبْدَحِيهِ, i. e., do not open it. (S.) ― -b3- نَدَحَتِ النَّعَامَةُ أُنْدُوحَةً The ostrich excavated and made wide a hollow place for her eggs. (A.) ― -b4- أَتْرَبَ فَنَدَحَ He became possessed of wealth like the dust, and enlarged his mode of life, and scattered his property. A proverb. (MF, from Meyd.)

see 1.

He vied with him, or contended with him for superiority, in multitude, or abundance. (R.)

, (S, K,) or فِى مَرَابِضِهَا, (A, L, &c.,) and ↓ انتدحت, (TA,) The sheep, or goats, became dispersed from, (S, K,) or in, (A, L, &c.,) their nightly restingplaces, and became distended by repletion. (S, A, L, K.)

see 5.

, inf. n. إِنْدِحَاحٌ, His belly became distended by reason of repletion. (S.) This, says IB, is its proper art., not art. دح. (TA, art. دح, in which J also mentions it.) F says, that J is in error in mentioning this verb, as also in mentioning إِنْدَاحَ بَطْنُهُ, inf. n. إِنْدِيَاحٌ, in the present art.; the proper place of the former being in art. دح; and that of the latter, in art. دوح: but MF says, that J has merely mentioned them here because of the resemblance of their radical letters and significations to the radical letters and significations belonging to this art. (TA.)

and ↓ نُدْحٌ (K) and ↓ مَنْدُوحَةٌ and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ (S) Spaciousness; roominess; width; ampleness (L, K.) -A2- Also, ↓ نُدْحٌ (S, K) and نَدْحٌ and ↓ نَدْحَةٌ and ↓ نُدْحَةٌ and ↓ مَنْدُوحَةٌ and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ (K) A spacious, roomy, wide, or ample, tract of land; (S, K;) as also أَرْضٌ مَنْدُوحَةٌ: (L:) and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ a spacious, roomy, wide, or ample, place: (S:) pl. (of the first and second words, TA) أَنْدَاحٌ; (S, K;) and pl. of مندوحة, مَنَادِيحُ, and by poetic licence مَنَادِحُ; (TA;) which is allowable also in other cases than those of poetical licence: (MF;) and it (منادح) also signifies deserts; or waterless deserts. (S.) ― -b2- Also ↓ وَادٍ نَادِحٌ A wide valley. (L.) ― -b3- ↓ لَكَ فِى هٰذِهِ الدَّارِ مُنْتَدَحٌ Thou hast ample space, or room, in this house. (A.) ― -b4- ↓ لِى عَنْ هٰذَا ٱلْأَمْرِ مَنْدُوحَةٌ, and ↓ مُنْتَدَحٌ, I have ample scope, freedom, or liberty, to avoid this thing, or affair: (S, L:) or I have that which renders me in no need of this thing, or affair. (L.) ― -b5- عَنِ الكَذِبِ ↓ إِنَّ فِى المَعَارِيضِ لَمَنْدُوحَةً, [a trad.,] Verily, in oblique, indirect, ambiguous, or equivocal, modes of speech, is ample scope, freedom, or liberty, to avoid lying: (S, L:) or, that which renders one in no need of lying: (L:) one should not say مُنْدُوحَة, (TA,) nor مَمْدُوحَة. (S.) ― -b6- نَدْحٌ and ↓ نُدْحٌ also signify Multitude; copiousness; abundance. (L, K.) ― -b7- Also, The face of a mountain, or part which faces the spectator, above its foot, or base; (K;) its side, or extremity, which inclines to width: (TA:) pl. أَنْدَاحٌ. (K.)

A heavy thing; syn. ثِقْلٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Also, A thing that one sees from afar. (K.)

, نَدْحَةٌ, نُدْحَةٌ, نَادِحٌ, مُنْدُوحَةٌ, مُنْتَدَحٌ: see نَدْحٌ.

A wide hollow place excavated by an ostrich for her eggs. (A.)