Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عِدْوَةٌ

Root: عدو

Full Definition

عِدْوَةٌ : see عُدْوَةٌ, in three places:
2 and see also عَدَآءٌ.
3 [Freytag states, as from the Deewán of the Hudhalees, that, accord. to some, it signifies A stone with which a grave, or a well, is covered: and that the pl. is عَدَآءٌ : this latter, if correct, is a quasi-pl. n.: but perhaps it is correctly عِدَآءٌ: see عِدًى, first sentence.]

def.2 أُمُور عِدْوَة [app. أُمُورٌ عِدْوَةٌ, or perhaps أُمُورُ عِدْوَةٍ,] signifies Remote affairs.


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