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حُلَاوَى حلاوى حلاوي حلوى A certain plant: (S:) or a certain small tree, (K,) of the kind termed جَنْبَة, evergreen: (TA:) and, (K,) or, as some say, (TA,) a certain thorny plant, (K,) having a yellow flower, and small round leaves like those of the سَذَاب [or rue]: (TA:) a species of plant found in the desert: (T, TA:) pl. حُلَاوَى, (K,) like the sing., (TA,) and, (K,) or, as some say, (TA,) حُلَاوَيَاتٌ. (K.) It has been said that the sing. is حَلَاوِيَةٌ, like رَبَاعِيَةٌ: but Az says that this was not known by him: As mentions, as of the measure فُعَالَى, the words خُزَامَى and رُخَامَى and حُلَاوَى: each the name of a plant. (TA.) -A2- حُلَاوَى القَفَا: see حُلَاوَة.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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