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او
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaأُوَوْ ذ ; (AA, T, K, TA; [but in copies of the K, written أُوَوٌ;]) which is one of the strangest of the things transmitted from the Arabs; the regular form being أُوَّى, like قُوَّي, pl. of قُوَةٌ; but the word occurring as above in the saying of the Arabs, مَا هُوَ اـِلَّا أُوَّةٌ مِنَ الأُوَوْ [ It is no other thing than a calamity of the calamities: or, perhaps, he is no other than a very cunning man of the very cunning ]. (AA, T, TA.)
Derived headwords
أُوَوْ
- 1.
مَا هُوَ اـِلَّا أُوَّةٌ مِنَ الأُوَوْ