سَخَاوِىٌّ
Root: سخو
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سَخَاوِىٌّ
applied to a place, and سَخَاوِيَّةٌ applied to a land (أَرْضٌ), Soft in the earth [thereof]; to which is added in the S, وَهِىَ مَنْسُوبَةٌ [and it is rel. n.]; but in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeyà وَهِىَ مُسْتَوِيَةٌ [i. e. and such as is even, or level]: or the former is pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of the latter, which signifies land soft in the earth [thereof]: or wide, or ample: as also
سَخْوَآءُ : or this last signifies a soft, or plain, and wide, or ample, land: and its pl. is سَخَاوَى and سَخَاوِى [or rather سَخَاوٍ, when indeterminate]: (S, K: [in the former, these two pls. are correctly written with the article السَّخَاوَى and السَّخَاوِى:]) or, accord. to AA, سَخَاوِىُّ signifies land, or lands, [for the explanation is ambiguous, app. meaning the latter,] in which is nothing; and in like manner سَخَاوِيَّةٌ [but app. as a n. un.]: accord. to As and A'Obeyd, land; but correctly lands: or width, or wide extent, so some say, of a desert, or waterless desert, and vehemence of heat thereof.
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