طَوًى
Root: طوى
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طَوًى
A skin for water or milk; syn. سِقَآءٌ; as also
طَىٌّ : or the former signifies a skin (سقآء) that has been folded having in it its moisture, and has consequently become dissundered; app. an Verbal.Noun [of طَوِىَ] used as a subst. [properly so called]: and
سِقَآءٌ signifies [the same, or] a skin that has been folded having in it moisture, or some remains of milk, in consequence of which it has become altered, and stinking, and dissundered by putrefaction.
def.2 Also Hunger; [and] so طَوٌّ [if not a mistranscription]. (TA. [See طَوِىَ, of which the former is an Verbal.Noun, as also طِوًى.])
def.2 Also Hunger; [and] so طَوٌّ [if not a mistranscription]. (TA. [See طَوِىَ, of which the former is an Verbal.Noun, as also طِوًى.])
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