Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

غَذَوَانٌ

Root: غذو

Full Definition

غَذَوَانٌ [an Verbal.Noun of غَذَا said of water, and of a horse, and hence, app.,] Swift: or brisk, lively, or sprightly, and swift; applied to a horse: (S, K, TA: [see also غَذَوَانٌ:]) or that interrupts his urine, or emits it in repeated discharges, (يَغْذُو بِبَوْلِهِ,) when he runs.
2 And Long-tongued, or clamorous and foul-tongued; foul, unseemly, or obscene [in speech]: fem. with ة: the latter, applied to a woman, expl. by Fr as signifying فَاحِشَةٌ [i. e. foul, &c., as above].


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