شوى

شُوَايَةٌ ذ What is cut off from, or of, flesh-meat: (K, TA:) or what the slaughterer cuts off from, or of, the extremities of a sheep or goat. (TA.) ― -b2- A small thing [or portion ] of that which is large; as a piece, or detached portion, of a sheep, or goat: one says, مَا بَقِىَ مِنَ الشَّاةِ اـِلَّا شُوَايَةٌ [ There remained not of the sheep, or goat, save a piece ]. (S.) ― -b3- Also, (S, K,) and ↓ شِوَايَةٌ and ↓ شَوَايَةٌ, (K,) A قُرْص [or round cake, or small round cake, ] of bread. (S, K.) ― -b4- And, all the three, A remaining portion of people, or of cattle, that have perished; as also ↓ شَوِيَّةٌ; (K;) or this last, a remaining portion of people that have perished: (S:) pl. (of the last, S) شَوَايَا. (S, K.) [See also شَوًى.] ― -b5- And (tropical:) The bad, or vile, sort, (K, TA,) or worse, or viler, sort, (TA,) of camels, and of sheep, or goats: (K, TA:) in this sense written by ISd with kesr and with fet-h. (TA.) [See, again, شَوًى.] ― -b6- [And accord. to Freytag, شواية الرضف (i. e. شوايةُ الرَّضْفِ) is expl. by Meyd as meaning Cooked milk cast upon a hot stone, so that only a small portion remains. ]