رَوِىٌّ
Root: روى
Full Definition
رَوِىٌّ
: see رَوَآءٌ.
2 Also A full, or complete, drink. You say, شَرِبْتُ شُرْبًا رَوِيًّا I drank a full, or complete, drink.
3 And A cloud of which the rain-drops are large, and vehement in their fall; like سَقِىٌّ: pl. أَرْوِيَةٌ.
4 And, accord. to IAar, One who gives to drink; or a waterer; syn. سَاقٍ: [in one copy of the T, in the place of السَّاقِى as explanatory of الرَّوِىُّ, I find التَّأَنِّى, which I think an evident mistranscription:]
5 and Weak:
6 and Sound in body and intellect.
def.2 Also The [funda-
2 Also A full, or complete, drink. You say, شَرِبْتُ شُرْبًا رَوِيًّا I drank a full, or complete, drink.
3 And A cloud of which the rain-drops are large, and vehement in their fall; like سَقِىٌّ: pl. أَرْوِيَةٌ.
4 And, accord. to IAar, One who gives to drink; or a waterer; syn. سَاقٍ: [in one copy of the T, in the place of السَّاقِى as explanatory of الرَّوِىُّ, I find التَّأَنِّى, which I think an evident mistranscription:]
5 and Weak:
6 and Sound in body and intellect.
def.2 Also The [funda-
[When the wealth of the man becomes little, his friends become few, and, together with the eyes, the fingers make signs to him]: [when two or more letters are indispensable to the rhyme, only one of them is thus termed, according to rules fully explained in the M and in the treatises on versification:] IJ mentions رَوِيَّاتٌ as its pl.; but [ISd says,] I think him to have stated this carelessly, and not to have heard it from the Arabs. One says قَصِيدَتَانِ عَلَى رَوِىٍّ وَاحِدٍ [Two odes constructed upon one rhymeletter; or having one fundamental rhyme-letter].إِذَا قَلَّ مَالُ المَرْءِ قَلَّ صَدِيقُهُ وَ أَوْمَتْ إِلَيْهِ بِالعُيُونِ الأَصَابِعُ
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