عَوَجٌ

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عَوَجٌ and عِوَجٌ [are inf. ns. of عَوِجَ, q. v., or the latter is a simple subst.; and both, used as simple substs.,] signify Crookedness, curvity, a bending, a winding, wryness, contortion, distortion, or unevenness: or the former is peculiar to objects of the sight, as bodies; and the latter, to what are not seen, as opinion, and a saying, and religion: or, as some say, the latter is used in both of these cases; but the distinction is more common: AZ makes the same distinction; but adds that some of the Arabs used the latter word in relation to a road: accord. to ISk, the former is in anything erect, or in anything that was erect and has inclined, as a wall, and a stick, or a staff, and a spear; and the latter, in land, or ground, and in religion, and in means of subsistence: in land, or ground, the latter means unevenness; thus in the Kur xx. 106: in a road, deflection; as also عَوَجٌ: in religion, and in natural disposition, corruptness, or deviation from rectitude: and عَوَجٌ, or عِوَجٌ, (accord. to a copy of the A, [which I incline to regard as the right, in consideration of its consistency with explanations here preceding, notwithstanding the apparent preponderance of authority in favour of عَوَجٌ,]) in a man, signifies evilness of natural disposition: (S, A, O: [and so, app., هَوَجٌ:]) or عَوَجٌ, with fet-h to the ع, as an Verbal.Noun, signifies the being evil in natural disposition.

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