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دَأْىٌ ذ and ↓ دِئِىٌّ and ↓ دُئِىٌّ , (M, K,) the last said by IB, on the authority of As, to be pl. of [the n. un.] ↓ دَأْيَةٌ , of the measure فُعُولٌ, [originally دُؤُوىٌ,] (TA,) The vertebræ of the كَاهِل [or withers (app. of a camel)] and of the back: or the cartilages of the breast: or the ribs thereof, where it meets the side: (M, K:) or ↓ الدَّأَيَاتُ signifies the ribs of [i. e. within] the shoulderblade, three on either side; (IAar, M, K;) sing. ↓ دَأْيَةٌ : (M:) or ↓ دَأْيَةٌ , (T,) or دَأْىٌ, (S,) signifies the part of the camel against which lies the [piece of wood called] ظَلِفَة of the saddle, and which is [often] galled thereby: (T, S:) or دَأْىٌ is the pl. [or coll. gen. n.] of ↓ دَأْيَةٌ , and signifies the vertebræ of the withers, in the part between the two shoulder-blades, of the camel, peculiarly; (Lth, T;) and the pl. [of دَأْيَةٌ] is ↓ دَأَيَاتٌ : (Lth, T, S:) or the دأيات are the vertebræ of the neck: or the vertebræ of the spine: (AO, T:) or the two ribs next to the وَاهِنَتَانِ are called the دَأْيَتَانِ: AZ says that the Arabs knew not the term دأيات in relation to the neck, but they knew it in relation to the ribs, as signifying six [ribs] next to the stabbing-place of the camel, three on either side; and this is correct: (T:) [and it is said in the L, in art. جنح, that دَأْىٌ signifies the ribs of the back, of a man, which are called the جَوَانِح, pl. of جَانِحَةٌ, six in number, three on the right and three on the left:] the pl. of دَأْىٌ [or rather the quasi-pl. n.] is دَئِىٌّ, like as ضَئِينٌ is of ضَأْنٌ, and مَعِيزٌ of مَعْزٌ: (S:) and, accord. to IB, دُئِىٌّ is a pl. of ↓ دَأْيَةٌ , as mentioned above, meaning the vertebræ of the neck. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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