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تَوَّاقٌ تواق i. q. شَوَّاقٌ [app. Yearning, longing, or desiring, much, or vehemently; or very desirous: but some regard it as a simple epithet, syn. with ↓ تَائِقٌ ; for it is said that] نَفْسٌ تَوَّاقَةٌ signifies the same as ↓ تَائِقَةٌ [A yearning, longing, desiring, or desirous, soul]. (JK, Msb.) It is said in a prov., (TA,) “ المَرْءُ تَوَّاقٌ إِِلَى مَا لَمْ يَنَلْ
” [Man is desirous, or very desious, of that which he has not attained]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- One whose soul yearns towards, longs for, or desires, every low, or base, action. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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