مَطْوِىٌّ

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مَطْوِىٌّ [Folded, folded up, or folded together, and rolled up: see 1, first sentence.
2 And hence, Made compact, as though folded; and round, like a scroll]. You say اِمْرَأَةٌ مَطْوِيَّةُ الخَلْقِ (S and K in art. مكر) [meaning, accord. to the PS in that art., A plump woman; and the same seems to be indicated by what immediately follows it in the S itself: but it is more correctly rendered a woman compacted, or rounded, in make: see طُوِىَ جِسْمُهُ. It may, however, signify also A woman lean, lank, or slender, in make; lit., rendered lean, &c.: see طَوَاهُ].
3 بِئْرٌ مَطْوِيَّةٌ A well cased with stones [or with baked bricks].
4 وَٱلسَّمٰوَاتُ مَطْوِيَّاتٌ بِيَمِينِهِ, in the Kur [xxxix. 67, generally understood to mean And the heavens shall be folded together, or rolled up, by his right hand], has been expl. as meaning [that they shall be] destroyed: so says Er-Rághib.

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