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خو

خَوٌّ خو Hunger. (IAar, K.) [And so خَوًى and خَوَآءُ, belonging to art. خوي; with which the present art. is intimately connected.] -A2- A wide valley: (K:) any wide valley in a soft, or plain, [low ground such as is termed] جَوّ; (Az, TA;) as also خَوًى: (Az, TA in art. خوى:) and low, or depressed, ground; (TA;) as also ↓ خُوَّةٌ : (JK, TA:) or the former, a soft place: (JK:) or soft ground; as in the saying, وَقَعَ غَرْسُكَ بِخَوًّ What thou hast planted has chanced to be in soft ground, in which it will take root and not fail to be productive. (TA.) [ خُوٌّ خو , by a mistake in the CK, in art. خوى, is made to signify Honey: see خُوَآءٌ in that art.] خوّة خوه خوة [app. خَوَّةٌ] Languor: occurring in a trad., in which it is said, وَ أَخَذَ أَبَا جَهْلٍ خوّةٌ فَلَا يَنْطِقُ [And a languor seized Aboo-Jahl, so that he spoke not]. (IAth, TA.) خُوَّةٌ خوه خوة A vacant land. (K.) ― -b2- See also خَوٌّ. -A2- Also a dial. var. of أُخُوَّةٌ. (IAth, TA in art. اخو: see 1 in that art.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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