دَوَاةٌ

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دَوَاةٌ [vulgarly دَوَايَة, An ink-bottle; and, more commonly, an inkhorn; i. e. a portable case with receptacles for ink and the instruments of writing, so formed as to be stuck in the girdle; the most usual king is figured in my work on the Modern Egyptians, ch. ix.;] a certain thing, well known, from which one [takes the ink and instruments with which he] writes: pl. دَوًى , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and دُوِىٌّ, which is pl. of دَوًى, as also دِوِىٌّ, and دَوَيَاتٌ, which is applied to a number from three to ten [inclusive].

def.2 Also The rind, or skin, of the colocynth, and of the grape, and of the melon; and so ذَوَاةٌ.

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