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صِوَانٌ ذ and صُوَانٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and صَوَانٌ (K) and صِيَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and صُيَانٌ and صَيَانٌ, (K,) but the third and the last two are extr., (TA,) A thing, (M, Msb, K,) or receptacle, (S,) [or chest or the like,] used as a repository (S, M, Msb, K) for a garment, (S, K,) as also ↓ مَصَانٌ , (Skr, cited by Reiske in Abulf. Ann. ii. 614,) [or for clothes,] or for a thing: (M, Msb:) pl. أصْونَةٌ: (MA:) or ↓ مَصَانٌ signifies any place in which one reposits a garment. (TA in art. ضرس.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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