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م ع ي

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Meaning

Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root معى. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

مِعًى A narrow, depressed place (See طَأْطَاءٌ .) ― -b2- بَنَاتٌ مِعًى The بَعْر . (T in art. بنى .) ― -b3- المِعَى المُسْتَقِيمُ The rectum.

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الأَمْعَاءُ i. q. الأَقْصَابُ ; (AO: see voce قِتْبٌ ;) the guts; i. e. bowels, or intestines, into which the food passes from the stomach: الحَشَا is the name of all the places of the food; and in the belly are the أَعْفَاج and the أَقْتَاب , to which the food passes after the stomach, and these are the lower امعاء ; and all these are called the قُصْب : the حَوَايَا are all the امعاء that wind, or take a coiled, or circular, form. (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán. ”) ― -b2- أَمْعَا=ءُ : see a tropical signification (water-holes) of this pl. voce حَوِيَّةُ .

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