هوء

مُهْوَأَنٌّ ذ (S, K) and ↓ مَهْوَئِنٌّ (K) A wide desert, or wide tract of the kind called صَحْرَاآء. (S. K.) ― -b2- Custom: syn. عَادَةٌ. (K.) ― -b3- A part of the night. (K.) ― -b4- The mention of مهوأنّ in this art., by J, says IB, and F after him, is wrong; for its measure is مفوعّل; the و being an augmentative letter. [But if so, F has himself done wrong, in mentioning it, not only here, but also in art. هون, (where, if the و be augmentative, it is equally inappropriate,) as though it were a quasi-quadriliteral-radical word, of the measure مفعاُلّ.] ISd gives it as formed by transposition from the root هنأ, and explains it as signifying a wide place. (TA.)