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دَأْيَةٌ ذ ; and its pls. دَأَيَاتٌ and دُئِىٌّ: see the next preceding paragraph, in seven places. ― -b2- Hence, (S,) اِبْنُ دَأْيَةَ The غُرَاب [or crow]: (S, M, K:) so called because it alights upon, and pecks, the دأية of the camel that has galls, or sores. (M.) -A2- Also The part, of a bow, upon which the arrow lies: there are two parts of which each is thus called, next to the part of the stave that is held by the hand, above and below. (M.) -A3- دَايَةٌ [without ', from the Pers. دَايَهْ,] A child's nurse; a woman who has the charge of a child, who takes care of him, and rears, or nourishes, him; (TA in art. حضن;) i. q. ظِئْرٌ; both of which words are said by IJ to be chaste Arabic: pl. دَايَاتٌ. (M and TA in art. دوى.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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