قَاحَةٌ

The court of a house; a spacious vacant part, or portion, thereof, in which is no building; synonym سَاحَةٌ; (S in article قيح, and L, K, in the present article;) and بَاحَةٌ, ق and ب being interchangeable in this case, as in طِينٌ لَازِبٌ and لَازِقٌ, and in نَبِيثَةُ البِيءْرِ and نَقِيثَتُهَا: and the middle of a house: (TA:) plural قُوحٌ; (K, TA;) like [its synonym] سُوحٌ plural of سَاحَةٌ. (TA.) It is related of 'Omar that he said, مَنْ مَلَأَ عَيْنَهُ مِنْ قَاحَةِ بَيْتٍ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُوءْذَنَ لَهُ فَقَدْ فَجَرَ [He who satisfies his eye by the sight of what is in the court of a house before permission is given to him to enter verily transgresses]. (TA.) And [the plural] signifies Lands giving growth to nothing. (TA.)