نَدْحٌ

1.
and نُدْحٌ (K) and مَنْدُوحَةٌ and مُنْتَدَحٌ (S) Spaciousness; roominess; width; ampleness (L, K.)
2.
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:) plural (of the first and second words, TA) أَنْدَاحٌ; (S, K;) and plural 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.)
3.
Also وَادٍ نَادِحٌ A wide valley. (L.)
4.
لَكَ فِى هٰذِهِ الدَّارِ مُنْتَدَحٌ Thou hast ample space, or room, in this house. (A.)
5.
لِى عَنْ هٰذَا الْأَمْرِ 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.)
6.
عَنِ الكَذِبِ إِنَّ فِى المَعَارِيضِ لَمَنْدُوحَةً, [a tradition,] 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.)
7.
نَدْحٌ and نُدْحٌ also signify Multitude; copiousness; abundance. (L, K.)
8.
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:) plural أَنْدَاحٌ. (K.)

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