مَأْوًى
Root: اوى
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مَأْوًى
and
مَأْوٍ and
nouns of place from the first of the verbs in this art.; [A place to which one betakes himself, or repairs, for lodging, covert, or refuge; a refuge; an asylum; a place of resort; ] any place to which a thing betakes itself, &c., (يَأْوِى إِلَيْهِ,) by night or. by day; the lodging-place, or abode, of any animal; the nightly resting-place of sheep or goats; and of camels: (Idem in art. مَأْوٍ روح is used peculiarly in relation to camels: مَأْوِى الإِبِلِ being a dial. var. of مَأْوَى الإِبِلِ, but anomalous, and the only instance of the kind except مَأْقِى العَيْنِ: (Fr, T, M: [but see art. مأق:]) مَأْوَى and مُؤْق and مَأْق are the forms preferred: [Az also says,] I have heard the chaste in speech of the Benoo-Kiláb use, for مَأْوَى الإِبِلِ, the word
. جَنَّةُ المَأْوَى, in the Kur [liii. 15], is said to mean The paradise to which repair the souls of the martyrs, or the pious, or the angels: or that in which the night is passed.
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