اشوى
Root: شوى
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 أَشْوَاهُمْ; and , Verbal.Noun تَشْوِيَةٌ; He fed them with شِوَآء [i. e. roasted, or broiled, or fried, flesh-meat]. And He gave them flesh-meat that they might roast, or broil, or fry, thereof.
def.2 And اشوى
2 And اشوى القَمْحُ The wheat became fit to be rubbed with the hands and to be roasted.
3 And اشوى السَّعَفُ
def.3 Also He got, or acquired, the worse, or viler, sort of cattle.
def.4 اشواهُ said of a shooter or caster, He hit his شَوَى, i. e. [one or more of his] extremities, not a [vital] place where a wound would occasion death; and so , as in the Tekmileh: in the K, erroneously, شوّاهُ.
2 [Hence, He missed it, i. e. the object of his aim. See مُشْوًى: and see also Ham p. 91.]
3 [Hence, also, app.,] Hr says that اشوى is allowable in the sense of أَسْقَطَ
def.5 In the saying مَا أَعْيَاهُ وَأَشْيَاهُ (S, K, [in some copies of the K وَمَا أَشْيَاهُ,]) and so in ما اعياه وَأَشْوَاهُ, the latter verb is an imitative sequent to the former [added only for the purpose of corroboration].
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