معى

Entries on معى in 5 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya, Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim bin Salām al-Harawī, Gharīb al-Ḥadīth, Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, and 2 more

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Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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مِعًى A narrow, depressed place (See طَأْطَاءٌ.) b2: بَنَاتٌ مِعًى The بَعْر. (T in art. بنى.) b3: المِعَى المُسْتَقِيمُ The rectum.

الأَمْعَاءُ i. q. الأَقْصَابُ; (AO: see voce قِتْبٌ;) the guts; i. e. bowels, or intestines, into which the food passes from the stomach: الحَشَا is the name of all the places of the food; and in the belly are the أَعْفَاج and the أَقْتَاب, to which the food passes after the stomach, and these are the lower امعاء; and all these are called the قُصْب: the حَوَايَا are all the امعاء that wind, or take a coiled, or circular, form. (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán. ”) b2: أَمْعَآءُ: see a tropical signification (water-holes) of this pl. voce حَوِيَّةُ.