آوَى

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آوَى , a determinate noun, [The jackal; vulgarly called in the present day وَاوِى;] a certain small beast, called in Persian شَغَالْ, or in that language [or in Turkish] چَقَالْ: it has been said to be the offspring of the wolf; but is well known to be not of the wolf-kind: آوَى is inseparable from ابن: it is imperfectly decl., being of the measure أَفْعَلُ, or regarded as such; or because it has the quality of a proper name and the measure of a verb : the pl. is بَنَاتُ آوَى, though applying to males [as well as females], like بَنَاتُ أَعْوَجَ and بَنَاتُ لَبُون.

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