دَوٍ

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دَوٍ and دَوًى Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill: or whose جَوْف [i. e. chest, or belly,] is in a bad, or corrupt, state, by reason of a disease: the former word has a dual form and a pl., [which is دَوُونَ,] and a fem., which is دَوِيَةٌ: but دَوًى is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and dual and pl., being originally an Verbal.Noun A poet uses ↓ the latter as meaning disordered, or ill, by reason of intense drowsiness.
2 [Hence,] one says, إِنَّهُ لَدَوِى الصَّدْرِ [meaning Verily he is one whose bosom is affected with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite: see 1, second sentence]: and a poet says, وَعَيْنُكَ تُبْدِى أَنَّ صَدْرَكَ لِى دَوِىْ [ And thine eye shows that thy bosom is affected with rancour towards me].
3 أَرْضٌ دَوِيَةٌ A land in which are diseases: a land that is unsuitable [or unhealthy]; as also and .

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