اسْتَأْوَيْتُهُ

I asked him, or desired him, to compassionate me, or have mercy on me; synonym اسْتَرْحَمْتُهُ. (T.) A poet (namely, Dhu-r-Rummeh, TA) says,

وَلَوْ أَنَّنى اسْتَأْوَيْتُهُ مَا أَوَى لِيَا

[And if I had asked him, or desired him, to compassionate me, he would not have compassionated me]. (T, S.)