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نَوًى

Root: نوى

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نَوًى Date-stones: they are often used as food for camels; (see إِبِلٌ نَوَوِيَّةٌ;) and for this purpose are bruised, and sometimes mixed with barley, and then moistened: see بَسِيسَةٌ.
2 نَوَاةٌ What is cut off in the circumcision of a girl. (Lh, in TA, voce عُذْرَةٌ.) The name shows that this is the prepuce of the clitoris, the end of which resembles the end of a date-stone. But see بَظْرٌ.
3 النَّوَى What remains of the place of circumcision of a girl after that operation; i. e. the بَظْر: or the place of circumcision of a girl, which is what remains of her بَظْر when the مُتْك has been cut off.
4 نَوًى Pieces of gold, each of the weight of five dirhems. (TA in art. جب.)
5 نَوًى The tract, or region towards which one goes in journeying, whether near or distant; the place that is the object of a journey: [a traveller's destination:] the course, or direction, that one pursues in journeying and in acting or conduct: see an ex. voce صَرْفٌ , and عَقَرَ. It is of the fem. gender. See an ex. in some verses cited voce بَيْنٌ.
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