عين

أَعْيَنُ ذ A man wide in the eye: (S, Mgh:) or large and wide therein. (Lh, TA:) or large in the black of the eye, with width [ of the eye itself ]: (K.) fem. عَيْنَاآءُ; (S:) when is applied to a woman as meaning beautiful and wide in the eyes (Msb:) pl. عِينٌ, (S, Msb,) originally عُيْنٌ (S.) ― -b2- Hence. (S,) عينٌ is an appellation of Wild oxen; (S, K, TA:) as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: (TA:) and أَعْيَنُ, of the wild bull, (S, ISd, K,) which one should not call ثَوْرٌ أَعْيَنُ: (ISd, K:) and عَيْنَاآءُ, of the wild cow (S:) and women are likened to these wild animals. (TA,) ― -b3- عَيْنَاءُ also signifies, applied to a sheep or goat (شَاة), Of which the eyes are black and the rest white; and some say, or the converse thereof: in this sense used as an epithet. (TA.) ― -b4- And A good or beautiful, word or saying; likened to a woman beautiful and wide in the eyes (Msb:) opposed to عَوْراآءُ. (AHeyth,A and TA in art.عور) ― -b5- And, applied to a قَافِيَة i. q. نَافِشَةْ (K) [i. e. accord. to the TK. which is followed by Freytag, applied to a rhyme or meaning Having what is termed نَفَاشٌ: (see De Sacy's Ar. Gr., see, ed., ii. 657) but this explanation may be conjectural; and, if so, the meaning may be (assumed tropical:) penentrating, or effective as applied to a verse or an ode] ― -b6- And i. q. خَضْرَآءُ (K) [accord. to the TK as an epithet applied to land, and meaning (assumed tropical:) Black likened to the eye of the buffalo; for سَوَاد was sometimes termed by the Arabs خُضْرَة. but this explanation also may be conjectural; and ا rather think that it is so, and that by خَضْراآءِ is here meant (assumed tropical:) a bucket with which water has been drawn long, so that it has become green or blackish; (see أَخْضرْ,) agreeably with the following explanation, which is immediately subjoined in the K]. ― -b7- And A water-skin (قِرْبَة) ready to become lacerated, or rent, (K, TA, [see عَيْنٌ,]) and worn out. (TA.)