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معى

مِعًى ذ A narrow, depressed place (See طَأْطَاءٌ.) ― -b2- بَنَاتٌ مِعًى The بَعْر. (T in art. بنى.) ― -b3- المِعَى المُسْتَقِيمُ The rectum. الأَمْعَاءُ ذ i. q. الأَقْصَابُ; (AO: see voce قِتْبٌ;) the guts; i. e. bowels, or intestines, into which the food passes from the stomach: الحَشَا is the name of all the places of the food; and in the belly are the أَعْفَاج and the أَقْتَاب, to which the food passes after the stomach, and these are the lower امعاء; and all these are called the قُصْب: the حَوَايَا are all the امعاء that wind, or take a coiled, or circular, form. (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán. ”) ― -b2- أَمْعَآءُ: see a tropical signification (water-holes) of this pl. voce حَوِيَّةُ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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