Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رَوَآءٌ

Root: روى

Full Definition

رَوَآءٌ and رِوًى (T, S, M, K [in this last improperly said to be like إِلَى, which is without tenween,]) and رَوِىٌّ Sweet water: or water that causes him who comes to it to return with his thirst satisfied; applied only to water that has a continual increase, and does not become exhausted, nor cease: or abundant water, that satisfies the thirst.
2 [Hence,] الرَّوَآءُ is a name of The well of Zemzem.

def.2 And رواء, (so in the TA, as from the K, and as mentioned by Az on the authority of IAar, [but I have looked for it in vain in two copies of the T, app. رَوَآءٌ, or perhaps رِوَآءٌ , like the Pers. رِوَا, for one of these two may be from the other,] or رَوٌّ , (so accord. to my MS. copy of the K and accord. to the TK, [but this I think very dubious, and still more strange is the reading in the CK, which is رِو,]) Abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life.


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