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ذَوًى

Root: ذوى

Full Definition

ذَوًى The skins of grapes: a pl. [or rather a coll. gen. n.] of which the sing. [or rather the n. un.] is ذَوَاةٌ: [or] this latter signifies the skin, or husk, or rind, of the grape, and of wheat (الحِنْطَة), or of the colocynth (الحَنْظَلَة), and of the melon: and so [دَوَاةٌ] with the unpointed د.

def.2 Also ذَوًى, or ذِوًى , Weak, or small, or young, ewes.
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