أَعْوَجِىٌّ

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أَعْوَجِىٌّ the rel. n. of أَعْوَجُ: and applied to A [single] horse of those termed الأَعْوَجِيَّاتُ, an appellation of certain horse so called in relation to one named أَعْوَجُ, belonging to the Benoo-Hilál, a stallion than which there was none more celebrated among the Arabs, nor any that had a more numerous progeny: they were also called الخَيْلُ الأَعْوَجِيَّةُ, and بَنَاتُ , and بَنَاتُ; and a poet says, أَحْوَى مِنَ وَقَاحُ الحَافِرِ [Brown, or a blackish bay, of the progeny of Aawaj, hard in the hoof]; meaning مِنْ وَلَدِ; using that form of pl. because أَعْوَجُ is originally an epithet.

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