عَوَانٌ

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عَوَانٌ A beast of the bovine kind, or a cow, or anything, [i. e.] an animal [of any kind]. or a woman, and a beast, Of middle age, between such as is advanced in age and the youthful, neither young nor old; so in the Kur ii. 63: or a cow, and a mare, that has brought, forth after her firstborn: (K, TA: [in the CK, البَكْرُ is erroneously put for البِكْرِ:]) and a woman who has had a hasland; in the M, i. q. ثَيِّبٌ: pl. عُونٌ, originally عُوُنٌ. لَا تُعَلَّمُ العَوَانُ الخِمْرَةَ is a prov. [expl. in art. خمر.]. And حَرْبٌ عَوَانٌ means A war in which fighting has occurred once [and is occurring again]; as though they made the first [fighting] to be a بِكْر [or first-horn], And ضَرْبَةٌ عَوَانٌ A blow inflicted by seizing an opportunity when the object is unaware, and requiring to be repeated: pl. ضَرَبَاتٌ عُونٌ, occurring in a trad., in which the blows of 'Alee are said to have been not of this kind, but such as are termed مُبْتَكِرَاتٌ. (L. [See بِكْرٌ, last sentence.])
2 And Land watered by rain between two portions of land not so watered.
3 And [the fem. i. e.] with ة, A tall palm-tree: of the dial. of 'Omán, or of the dial. of Azd: or one standing alone, apart from others.

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