خَاوٍ

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خَاوٍ[ part. n. of 1.] فَتِلْكَ بُيُوتُهُمْ خَاوِيَةً, in the Kur [xxvii. 53], means [And those are their houses,] empty; or, as some say, fallen down: like the phrase in the same [ii. 261 and xxii. 44], خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَى عُرُوشِهَا having fallen down upon its roofs: or this means empty; its walls having fallen upon its roofs. (Bd in ii. 261. [See also عَرْشٌ.]) You say also أَرْضٌ خَاوِيَةٌ A land devoid of its inhabitants: and some times it means, of rain. كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ, in the Kur [lxix. 7], means [As though they were trunks of palm-trees] torn up: or eaten within: or fallen down and empty.

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