سَوْآنُ
Root: سوأ
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سَوْآنُ
is [app. an instance of the alteration of the latter of two epithets to assimilate it to the former, originally خَزْيَانُ أَسْوَأُ, meaning Ashamed, or base, or vile, or ignominious, and evil, bad, &c.,] from القُبْحُ.
2 See also سَوْءَةٌ.
2 See also سَوْءَةٌ.
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