Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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1 طَوَى الشَّىْءِ ذ , (S, Msb, *) or الصَّحِيفَةَ, (K,) aor. يَطْوِى, (Msb, K,) inf. n. طَىٌّ, (S, Msb,) [He folded, folded up, or folded together, and he rolled up, the thing, such as a garment, or piece of cloth, or the like, or the written piece of paper:] طَوَى الصَّحِيفَةَ meaning the contr. of نَشَرَهَا. (TA.) And one says also, طَوَى الثَّوْبَ, inf. n. طِيَّةٌ, with kesr, and طِيَةٌ, like عِدَةٌ, this latter on the authority of Lh, and extr., [meaning He folded, &c., the garment, or piece of cloth:] and the phrase صَحِيفَةٌ جَافِيَةُ الطِّيَةِ has been mentioned as meaning الطَّىِّ [i. e. A written piece of paper thick, or rude, in respect of the folding, &c.]. (TA.) [And طَوَيْتُ السِّقَآءَ عَلَى بُلُلَتِهِ, and بُلَلَتِهِ, or بَلَلَتِهِ, I folded the skin while it was moist: whence the phrases طَوَيْتُ فُلَانًا عَلَى بُلُلَتِهِ, and بُلَلَتِهِ, &c., and طَوَاهُ عَلَى بِلَالِهِ, and بُلُولِهِ, expl. voce بَلَلٌ; and a similar phrase in a verse cited voce ذَرِبَ, q. v.: see also a similar phrase in art. دمل, conj. 3: and see طَوِىَ.] ― -b2- [Hence, طَوَى signifies also (assumed tropical:) He, or it, made a thing compact, as though folded; or round, like a scroll.] One says, طُوِىَ جِسْمُهُ طَيًّا حَتَّى ا@كْتَنَزَ لَحْمُهُ (assumed tropical:) [His body was, or became, compacted, or rounded, so that his, or its, flesh was firm, or hard]. (Lh, TA in art. دملج.) And سَاقٌ حَسَنَةُ الطَّىِّ (assumed tropical:) [A shank goodly in respect of the compacture, or rounding; well compacted, well rounded, or well turned]. (K in art. جدل, &c.) And [hence likewise,] طَوَاهُ means also (assumed tropical:) It rendered him lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly. (L in art. مسد.) One says, طَوَاهُ السَّيْرُ (assumed tropical:) Journeying, or travel, rendered him lean, or emaciated him. (TA.) ― -b3- طَوَى عُنُقَهُ وَنَامَ آمِنًا is said of a gazelle [as meaning He folded, or bent, his neck, and slept free from fear]. (TA.) ― -b4- طَوَى كَشْحَهُ [lit. He folded, or bent, his flank,] means (tropical:) he turned away his love, or affection: (S, TA:) or, as in the M, (tropical:) he withdrew his countenance: and the following ex. is cited: “ وَصَاحِبٍ قَدْ طَوَى كَشْحًا فَقُلْتُ لَهُ
هٰذَا عَنْكَ يَطْوِينِى ↓ إِِنَّ ا@نْطِوَآءَكَ
” (tropical:) [Many a companion has withdrawn countenance, and I have said to him, Verily this thy withdrawing withdraws me from thee]: (TA:) or طَوَى كَشْحَهُ عَنِّى means (tropical:) he turned away from me, forsaking, or abandoning. (K, TA. [See also art. كشح.]) ― -b5- And طَوَى كَشْحَهُ عَلَى أَمْرٍ (tropical:) He concealed an affair, or a case: (K, TA:) or, as in the M, (assumed tropical:) he determined, or resolved, upon an affair: (TA:) or, as in the L, and other lexicons, (assumed tropical:) he persevered in an affair. (TA in art. كشح.) ― -b6- And طَوَى, [for طَوَى أَحْشَآءَهُ,] (S, K,) aor. يَطْوِى, inf. n. طَىٌّ, (S,) (assumed tropical:) He suffered hunger intentionally, or purposely. (S, K. [See also طَوِىَ.]) ― -b7- And طَوَى عَنِّى الحَدِيثَ, (K, * TA,) and السِّرَّ, (TA,) (tropical:) He concealed from me the story, (K, * TA,) and the secret. (TA.) One says, اِطْوِ هٰذَا الحَدِيثَ (tropical:) Conceal thou this story. (TA.) ― -b8- And طَوَى حَدِيثًا إِِلَى حَدِيثٍ (assumed tropical:) He concealed in his mind a story and passed on from it to another story; like as is said of the traveller in the sentence next following: and similar to this is the phrase طَىُّ الصَّوْمِ (assumed tropical:) [the passing on from the fasting to the next fasting]. (TA.) One says of the traveller, يَطْوِى مَنْزِلًا إِِلَى مَنْزِلٍ فَلَا يَنْزِلُ (assumed tropical:) [He passes on from one place of alighting to another so that he does not alight]. (TA.) And طَوَى المَكَانَ إِِلَى المَكَانِ (assumed tropical:) He passed on from the place to the place. (TA.) And طَوَى البِلَادَ, (K, Ta,) inf. n. طَىٌّ, (TA,) (tropical:) He traversed the countries, (K, TA,) country after country. (TA.) ― -b9- طَوَى القَوْمَ means (assumed tropical:) He came to the people, or party: or he passed by them: (IAar, K, TA:) or he sat by them, or at their place of abode. (K, TA.) ― -b10- طَوَى ا@للّٰهُ البُعْدَ لَنَا, accord. to the K, means (tropical:) May God contract (lit. make near) the distance to us: but accord. to the T, البَعِيدَ [i. e., make near the remote]. (TA.) ― -b11- الطَّىُّ also denotes the passing away of life: [or rather the making life to pass away:] one says, طَوَى ا@للّٰهُ عُمُرَهَ (assumed tropical:) [God made, or may God make, his life to pass away]: and a poet says, “ طَوَتْكَ خُطُوبُ دَهْرِكَ بَعْدَ نَشْرٍ
” (assumed tropical:) [Thy misfortunes have exanimated thee after vivifying, or reviving]: طُوِىَ فُلَانٌ وَهُوَ مَنْشُورٌ (tropical:) [Such a one has been exanimated but he is revived] is said of a person when [he has died and] a good reputation of him remains, or a good memorial. (TA.) [It is also implied in the TA that, in accordance with this usage of the verb, طَوَاهُ may be rendered (assumed tropical:) He caused it to pass away, or come to nought or to an end; destroyed it; or annihilated it: (see the pass. part. n.:) and, accord. to Bd, يَوْمَ نَطْوِى ا@لسَّمَآءَ, in the Kur xxi. 104, may mean On the day when we shall efface the heaven: but this phrase is better rendered on the day when we shall fold, or roll up, the heaven.] ― -b12- One says also, طَوَى الغَزْلَ عَلَى المِطْوَى [He wound the spun thread upon the winder]. (TA.) ― -b13- And طَوَى الرَّكِيَّةَ, (TA,) or البِئْرَ, (Msb,) inf. n. طَىٌّ, He cased the well with stones, and with baked bricks: and in like manner, طَوَى اللَّبِنَ فِى البِنَآءِ [He cased the bricks, or crude bricks, in the building]. (TA.) -A2- طَوِىَ السِّقَآءُ, [aor. يَطْوَى,] inf. n. طَوًى, The skin was folded having in it moisture, or some remains of milk, in consequence of which it became altered, and stinking, and dissundered by putrefaction. (TA. [See also the third sentence of this paragraph.]) ― -b2- And طَوِىَ, aor. يَطْوَى, inf. n. طَوًى (S, K) and طِوًى also, on the authority of Sb, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He was hungry; (S, K; *) as also ↓ أَطْوَى . (K. [See also طَوَى, above.]) ― -b3- And طَوِيَتْ طِيَّتُهُ The place to which, or towards which, he would repair, or betake himself, was, or became, remote. (Lh, TA.)