سوى

سَوِيَّةٌ ذ : see سَوَاآءٌ, in five places. ― -b2- [Also fem. of سَوِىٌّ. ― -b3- And hence, as a subst.,] A kind of vehicle of female slaves and of necessitous persons: (K:) or a [ garment of the kind called ] كِسَاآء, stuffed with panic grass (ثُمَام), (S, M, K, and L in art. كرب,) or palm-fibres (لِيف), (M,) or the like, (S, M, and L ubi suprà,) resembling the بَرْذَعَة [q. v.], (S, and L ubi suprà,) which is put on the back of the camel, (M,) or on the back of the ass &c., (L ubi suprà,) and which is one of the vehicles of female slaves and of necessitous persons: (M:) and likewise such as is put upon the back of the camel, but in the form of a ring because of the hump, and [ also ] called حَوِيَّةٌ [q. v.]: pl. سَوَايَا. (S.)