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dhabīḥah

dhabīḥah is the alternative form of dhabihah.

Meaning of dhabihah

Noun

dhabihah (uncountable)

  1. The prescribed Islamic method of ritual slaughter of animals to produce halal meat, consisting of a swift, deep incision with a sharp knife on the throat, cutting the jugular veins and carotid arteries of both sides but leaving the spinal cord intact.

Questions about dhabīḥah

What is dhabīḥah the alternative form of?
Dhabīḥah is the alternative form of dhabihah.

Words near dhabīḥah in the dictionary

  1. dhabas
  2. dhabba
  3. dhabbas
  4. dhabiha
  5. dhabihah
  6. dhabīḥah
  7. Dhading
  8. Dhagat
  9. Dhagats
  10. dhahabiyya
  11. dhahabiyyas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dhabīḥah (page history and authors); dhabihah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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