عَوِيصٌ
Root: عوص
Full Definition
عَوِيصٌ
A difficult thing, or affair: and the same, or
, applied to a calamity (دَاهِيَة) difficult, severe, grievous, or distressing: IJ holds it to be used [only] as a subst. (M, voce صَوِيبٌ.)
2 Also Language Difficult to be understood: obscure; or not comprehended or understood; as also أَعْوَصُ and عَائِصٌ , which last is [originally] an Verbal.Noun, like فَالِجٌ &c.: poetry of which the meaning is difficult to be elicited; as also أَعْوَصُ : also عَوِيصٌ, and عَوِيصَةٌ, and , applied to a word, or an expression, or a sentence, or the like, (كَلِمَة,) strange: or difficult to be understood.
3 Also, applied
4 And, applied to a place, Rugged, high, and difficult.
5 Also, or , [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] A difficult affair: or the most difficult of affairs. You say, فُلَانٌ يَرْكَبُ Such a one embarks in, or undertakes, the most difficult of affairs.
6 Also عَوِيصٌ, or , Difficulty, or distress: or difficulty and want. (TA in art. عيص.) You say, أَصَابَتْهُمْ Difficulty, or distress, befell them. And عَيْصَآءُ signifies the same; the ى being interchangeable with the و.
2 Also Language Difficult to be understood: obscure; or not comprehended or understood; as also أَعْوَصُ and عَائِصٌ , which last is [originally] an Verbal.Noun, like فَالِجٌ &c.: poetry of which the meaning is difficult to be elicited; as also أَعْوَصُ : also عَوِيصٌ, and عَوِيصَةٌ, and , applied to a word, or an expression, or a sentence, or the like, (كَلِمَة,) strange: or difficult to be understood.
3 Also, applied
4 And, applied to a place, Rugged, high, and difficult.
5 Also, or , [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] A difficult affair: or the most difficult of affairs. You say, فُلَانٌ يَرْكَبُ Such a one embarks in, or undertakes, the most difficult of affairs.
6 Also عَوِيصٌ, or , Difficulty, or distress: or difficulty and want. (TA in art. عيص.) You say, أَصَابَتْهُمْ Difficulty, or distress, befell them. And عَيْصَآءُ signifies the same; the ى being interchangeable with the و.
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