أَعْوَجِىٌّ
Root: عوج
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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,
[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.أَحْوَى مِنَ وَقَاحُ الحَافِرِ
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