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8 اجتواهُ اجتواه اجتواة ٱجتواه ٱجتوى He disliked residing in it, namely, a country, or town, even if in the enjoyment of ease and plenty: (S:) or he disliked it, (K, TA,) and found it to disagree with him; (TA;) as also ↓ جَوِيَهُ : (K, TA:) or he disliked it, namely, a city, and found it to be insalubrious: or, as AZ says, he disliked it, namely, a country, even if it agreed with him in respect of his body: and he says, in his Nawádir, that اِجْتِوَآءٌ signifies the yearning towards, or longing for, home, and disliking a place, even if in the enjoyment of ease and plenty: and disliking it without yearning towards, or longing for, home: and also the not finding the food nor the beverage in a land to be wholesome: but not when one likes the residing in it but its food and beverage do not agree with him. (TA.) -A2- And اجتوى His heart was burnt by the fire of enmity. (Ham p. 219.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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