عَوَانٌ

A beast of the bovine kind, or a cow, (AZ, TA,) or anything, (S, TA,) [i. e.] an animal [of any kind]. (IAar, TA,) or a woman, and a beast, (Msb,) Of middle age, (AZ, IAar, Msb, TA,) between such as is advanced in age and the youthful, (AZ, TA,) neither young nor old; (IAar, TA:) so in the Qur'an, 2:63: (S, * TA:) or a cow, and a mare, that has brought, forth after her firstborn: (K, TA: [in the CK, البَكْرُ is erroneously put for البِكْرِ:]) and a woman who has had a hasland; (K, TA;) in the M, i. q. ثَيِّبٌ: (TA:) plural عُونٌ, (S, Msb, K,) originally عُوُنٌ. (Msb, TA.) لَا تُعَلَّمُ العَوَانُ الخِمْرَةَ is a prov. [explained in article خمر.]. (S, TA.) And حَرْبٌ عَوَانٌ means (assumed tropical:) A war in which fighting has occurred once [and is occurring again]; (S, K;) as though they made the first [fighting] to be a بِكْر [or first-horn], (S.) And ضَرْبَةٌ عَوَانٌ (assumed tropical:) A blow inflicted by seizing an opportunity when the object is unaware, and requiring to be repeated: plural ضَرَبَاتٌ عُونٌ, occurring in a tradition, in which the blows of 'Alee are said to have been not of this kind, but such as are termed مُبْتَكِرَاتٌ. (L. [See بِكْرٌ, last sentence.])

And Land watered by rain (K, TA) between two portions of land not so watered. (TA.)

And [the feminine i. e.] with ة, A tall palm-tree: (S, K:) of the dialect of 'Omán, (AHn, S, TA,) or of the dialect of Azd: (TA:) or one standing alone, apart from others. (IAar, TA.)