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عقو
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaعَقْوَةٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ عَقَاةٌ (S) The environs of a house: (S, K:) and the سَاحَة [i. e. court, or open area, ] of a house: (S:) and the former, the environs of a مَحَلَّة [or place of alighting, or of descending and stopping, &c.]: (ISd, K, TA: [والمَحَلَّةُ in the CK should be والمَحَلَّةِ:]) as also ↓ عَقَاةٌ: (K, TA:) the pl. (of عَقْوَةٌ TA) is عِقَاآءٌ, (K, TA,) and the pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of عَقَاهٌ is ↓ عَقًا, like as حَصًى is of حَصَاةٌ. (TA.) One says, مَا يَطُورُ بِعَقْوَتِهِ أَحَدٌ [ No one approaches the environs of his house ]. (S, TA.) And اِذْهَبْ فَلَا أَرَيَنَّكَ بِعَقْوَتِى [ Depart thou, and I will assuredly not see thee in the environs of my house ]. (TA.)
Derived headwords
عَقْوَةٌ
- 1.
مَا يَطُورُ بِعَقْوَتِهِ أَحَدٌ
فَلَا أَرَيَنَّكَ بِعَقْوَتِى