صَوَابٌ
1.
(assumed tropical:) A thing that is right, or what is said and of what is done; [like سَدَادٌ;] (Msb;) opposite of
خَطَأٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) as also
صَوْبٌ. (S, Msb, K.) One says,
دَعْنِى وَعَلَىَّ خَطَيءِى وَصَوْبِى i. e. صَوَابِى [meaning (assumed tropical:) Leave thou me, and on me be the consequence of my wrong saying or deed, and my right]. (S.) [And hence the phrase, frequent in some of the lexicons &c., الصَّوَابُ كَذَا meaning (assumed tropical:) The right, or correct, word or wording or reading is thus: and صَوَابُهُ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) The right, or correct, writing or wording or reading of it is thus.]
2.
And one says also
قَوْلٌ صَوْبٌ and صَوَابٌ [meaning (assumed tropical:) A right, or correct, saying: thus using each as an epithet]. (M.)