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دَوٍ دو and ↓ دَوًى (applied to a man, S) Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill: (T, M, K:) or whose جَوْف [i. e. chest, or belly,] is in a bad, or corrupt, state, by reason of a disease: (S:) the former word has a dual form and a pl., [which is دَوُونَ,] and a fem., (M,) which is دَوِيَةٌ: (S:) but ↓ دَوًى is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. (S, M) and dual (M) and pl., (S, M,) being originally an inf. n. (S.) A poet uses ↓ the latter as meaning disordered, or ill, by reason of intense drowsiness. (M.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, إِِنَّهُ لَدَوِى الصَّدْرِ [meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily he is one whose bosom is affected with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite: see 1, second sentence]: and a poet says, “ وَعَيْنُكَ تُبْدِى أَنَّ صَدْرَكَ لِى دَوِىْ
” [(assumed tropical:) And thine eye shows that thy bosom is affected with rancour towards me]. (Lth, T.) ― -b3- أَرْضٌ دَوِيَةٌ A land in which are diseases: (As, T, S:) a land that is unsuitable [or unhealthy]; as also ↓ دَوِيَّةٌ and ↓ دُوِيَّةٌ . (M, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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