Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خَوٌّ

Root: خو

Full Definition

خَوٌّ Hunger. [And so خَوًى and خَوَآءُ, belonging to art. خوي; with which the present art. is intimately connected.]

def.2 A wide valley: any wide valley in a soft, or plain, [low ground such as is termed] جَوّ; as also خَوًى: (Az, TA in art. خوى:) and low, or depressed, ground; as also خُوَّةٌ : or the former, a soft place: or soft ground; as in the saying, وَقَعَ غَرْسُكَ بِخَوًّ What thou hast planted has chanced to be in soft ground, in which it will take root and not fail to be productive.


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