عَدْوَةٌ

[verbal noun un. of عَدَا: plural عَدَوَاتٌ.

Hence the saying, السُّلْطَانُ ذُو عَدَوَاتٍ وَذُو بَدَوَاتٍ, explained voce بَدَاءٌ, in article بدو. See another reading of this saying voce عَدَوَانٌ.]

[Hence also,] one says, لَهُ عَدْوَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ He has a vehement run of the kind termed عَدْو, verbal noun of عَدَا. (Msb)

عَدْوَةُ الأَمَدِ means The extent of the eyesight. (TA.) And one says, هُوَ مِنِّى عَدْوَةَ القَوْسِ [apparently meaning He, or it, is at the distance of a bowshot from me]. (TA.)

-A2- See also عُدْوَةٌ.

عَدَايَا is used in poetry as a plural of عدوة [apparently عَدْوَةٌ, but in what sense is not shown]. (TA.)