عَدَوِيَّةٌ
Root: عدو
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عَدَوِيَّةٌ
The herbage of the
صَيْف [q. v., here app. meaning spring], after the departure of the
رَبِيع [q. v., here app. meaning winter]: it is applied to the young trees which then become green and are depastured by the camels: or, as some say, the [plants, or herbage, called] رَبْل [q. v.].
2 And The young ones of sheep or goats.
3 And Female infants [of the age] of forty days; (K, TA; [in the CK, نَبات is erroneously put for بَنَات;]) but when their [hair termed] عَقِيقَة has been cut off, this appel-lation is no longer applied to them: so says Lth; but Az pronounces him to have erred: or it is with غ and ذ, both dotted, or only the former of them dotted, and one of them is called غَدِىٌّ [or غَدَوِىٌّ, or غَذِىٌّ or غَذَوِىٌّ]: thus in the M, and thus accord. to Az.
2 And The young ones of sheep or goats.
3 And Female infants [of the age] of forty days; (K, TA; [in the CK, نَبات is erroneously put for بَنَات;]) but when their [hair termed] عَقِيقَة has been cut off, this appel-lation is no longer applied to them: so says Lth; but Az pronounces him to have erred: or it is with غ and ذ, both dotted, or only the former of them dotted, and one of them is called غَدِىٌّ [or غَدَوِىٌّ, or غَذِىٌّ or غَذَوِىٌّ]: thus in the M, and thus accord. to Az.
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