Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ٱسْتَأْوَيْتُهُ

Root: اوى

Form: 10

Full Definition

ٱسْتَأْوَيْتُهُX I asked him, or desired him, to compassionate me, or have mercy on me; syn. ٱسْتَرْحَمْتُهُ. A poet says, وَلَوْ أَنَّنى ٱسْتَأْوَيْتُهُ مَا أَوَى لِيَا [And if I had asked him, or desired him, to compassionate me, he would not have compassionated me].


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