Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَائِهٌ

Root: شوه

Full Definition

شَائِهٌ Envying: pl. شُوَّهٌ: or the latter signifies persons practising artifice to smite men with the [evil] eye.
2 And شَائِهُ البَصَرِ, and البَصَرِ, and شَاهِى البَصَرِ, (JK, TA, and S and K in art. شهو,) the last formed by transposition from the first, (S in art. شهو,) A man sharp of sight.


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