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صَوَّعَتْ

Root: صوع

Form: 2

Full Definition

صَوَّعَتْII , Verbal.Noun تَصْوِيعٌ, She prepared a place, such as is termed صَاعَة, and made it even, for the separating and loosening of cotton.
2 صوّعت الرِّيحُ النَّبَاتَ The wind dried up, or caused to dry up, the plants, or herbage; as also صَوَّحَتْهُ.
3 صوّع الشَّىْءَ He made the thing pointed in its head.
4 And He rounded the thing in its sides.
5 صّوع, Verbal.Noun as above, said of an ass, [meaning a wild ass,] He drove his she asses to the right and left: so expl. by Ibn-'Abbád. And, said of a horse, He went at random, and resisted his owner [or rider].
6 صوّع إِلَيْهِ [said of a man, as is indicated in the O,] He turned about his head towards him: and he turned his face towards him.
7 And صوّع رَأْسَهُ, said of a bird, It moved, or moved about, its head.
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