شَهِىٌّ ذ i. q. ↓ مُشْتَهًى (S, Msb) [i. e. Desired, longed for, or eagerly desired:] or pleasant, delicious, or sweet: (Msb, TA:) applied to food, (S,) and to water. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَبُو الشَّهِىِّ (assumed tropical:) The بَرْبَط [or Persian lute]. (KL.) ― -b3- [And Golius adds, as on the authority of a gloss in a copy of the KL, (assumed tropical:) The water-melon (anguria).] -A2- See also شَهْوَانُ.
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