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عِنْدَأْوَةٌ ذ Difficulty, and perverseness, (Z, K, TA,) in a man: (Z, TA:) and roughness, or hardness, of behaviour: (K:) and opposition, and wrongdoing: (L, TA:) and deceit, or guile: (K, TA:) and pronounced by some without '. (TA.) One says, تَحْتَ طِرِّيقَتِكَ لَعِنْدَأْوَةٌ Beneath thy silence is deceit, or guile: (K:) or difficulty, and perverseness: (Z, TA:) or opposition, and wrongdoing. (L, TA.) [See also طِرِّيقَةٌ.] ― -b2- And (accord. to Lh, TA) العِنْدَأْوَةُ signifies أَدْهَى الدَّوَاهِى [app. meaning The greatest of calamities]. (K, TA.) -A2- See also the former paragraph. [Accord. to some, the radical letters of عِنْدَأْوٌ and عِنْدَأَوَةٌ are عدأ: accord. to some, عدو: and accord. to some, عندأ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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