صُوَّةٌ
Root: صو
Full Definition
2 Hence [the pl.] أًصْوَآءٌ is applied to signify Graves: occurring in a trad. in this sense.
3 And the sing., accord. to As, signifies Rugged and elevated ground, but inferior to a mountain: or an elevated and a rugged spot, upon which, sometimes, stones are set up in order that one may be directed thereby to the right way; like ثُوَّةٌ. (M in art. ثو.)
4 And A place of varying, or of coming and going, (مُخْتَلَف) of the wind: a poet says,
[meaning, if the explanation be correct, and the citation appropriate, And a wind blew them (referring to the word جَمْر, i. e. live coals, in a verse immediately preceding) in the place of varying of the places of varying of the wind]: but Aboo-Zekereeyà, in the margin of his book [or his copy of the S], throws doubt upon the word meaning “ wind ” [in this explanation].وَهَبَّتْ لَهُ رِيحٌ بِمُخْتَلَفِ الصُّوَى
def.2 Also An assemblage of beasts, or birds, of prey: on the authority of Kr.
def.3 And The sound of the echo: mentioned by Az; but written by him with fet-h [i. e. صَوَّةٌ ].
def.4 أَخَذَهُ بِصُوَاهُ, expl. in the K as meaning He took it in its fresh state (بِطَرَآءَتِهِ [in the CK erroneously باَطْرافِه]), is a mistranscription; correctly, بِصَرَاهُ, with fet-h to the ص, and with ر, as written by Az. (TA. [صَرًا and صَرَاوَةٌ, both omitted in the K, are expl. in their proper place in the TA as syn. with جِدَّةٌ and غَضَاضَةٌ.])
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