Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَوْعَبُ

Root: وعب

Full Definition

أَوْعَبُ This is most proper, or fit, for the full giving, or receiving, or the like, of such a thing: syn. أَحْرَى لِاسْتِيفَائِهِ. This is taken from the following words of a trad.
2 نَوْمَةٌ بَعْدَ الجِمَاعٍ أَوْعَبُ لِلْمَاءِ A sleep after coitus is most proper for the complete evacuation of the semen remaining in the penis.


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