صَوَابٌ

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صَوَابٌ A thing that is right, or what is said and of what is done; [like سَدَادٌ;] contr. of خَطَأٌ; as also صَوْبٌ . One says, دَعْنِى وَعَلَىَّ خَطَئِى i. e. صَوَابِى [meaning Leave thou me, and on me be the consequence of my wrong saying or deed, and my right]. [And hence the phrase, frequent in some of the lexicons &c., الصَّوَابُ كَذَا meaning The right, or correct, word or wording or reading is thus: and صَوَابُهُ كَذَا The right, or correct, writing or wording or reading of it is thus.]
2 And one says also قَوْلٌ صَوْبٌ and صَوَابٌ [meaning A right, or correct, saying: thus using each as an epithet].

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