سُوَاعٌ
Root: سوع
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سُوَاعٌ
: see سَوْعٌ.
def.2 Also, and سَوَاعٌ, A certain idol which belonged to the people of Noah, in whose time it was worshipped; then the deluge buried it, but Iblees exhumed it, and it was worshipped [again]; so says Lth; then it became the property of [the tribe of] Hudheyl, and was at Ruhát, and pilgrimage was performed to it: or it belonged to [the tribe of] Hemdán: Abu-l-Mundhir says, I have not heard the mention of it in the poems of Hudheyl: but one of the Arabs, in verse, mentions Hudheyl as paying devotion to it: it is said that it had the form of a woman: [if so, as a fem. proper name, it would be without tenween: but] it is mentioned in the Kur [lxxi. 22, and is there with tenween]. [See also وَدٌّ.]
def.2 Also, and سَوَاعٌ, A certain idol which belonged to the people of Noah, in whose time it was worshipped; then the deluge buried it, but Iblees exhumed it, and it was worshipped [again]; so says Lth; then it became the property of [the tribe of] Hudheyl, and was at Ruhát, and pilgrimage was performed to it: or it belonged to [the tribe of] Hemdán: Abu-l-Mundhir says, I have not heard the mention of it in the poems of Hudheyl: but one of the Arabs, in verse, mentions Hudheyl as paying devotion to it: it is said that it had the form of a woman: [if so, as a fem. proper name, it would be without tenween: but] it is mentioned in the Kur [lxxi. 22, and is there with tenween]. [See also وَدٌّ.]
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